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DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation, LISC invite applications for Game On-Community Places to Play initiative | RFPs
June 17, 2025 Deadline: August 29, 2025 DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) invite applications for the Game On-Community Places to Play initiative, which is designed to support the creation and renovation of multi-use youth sport spaces for youth ages 6-24 years old in under-resourced communities. Funds will be awarded to […]

DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) invite applications for the Game On-Community Places to Play initiative, which is designed to support the creation and renovation of multi-use youth sport spaces for youth ages 6-24 years old in under-resourced communities.
Funds will be awarded to outdoor and indoor facilities that enable and demonstrate local community access and usage for all organized youth sports, including but not limited to basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, football, tennis, lacrosse, and volleyball.
The program will provide grants ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 to be used toward the cost of building or refurbishing a sport court facility or athletic field whose main usage will be for organized youth sports. Special consideration will be given to proposals that demonstrate how their capital projects will support youth development programming. Youth development program services should include but are not limited to life skills workshops, civic engagement and leadership, workforce development, academic support, etc. Awards will be granted in neighborhoods within the specific target markets and chosen based on need and potential impact in the local community.
Organizations applying must be located and facilitating projects within low-to-moderate income neighborhoods in the program’s 10 target markets, which are: Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Pittsburgh, and Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina.
Funding will be awarded to nonprofit community-based organizations, including schools and local parks and recreation departments (working in collaboration with local nonprofit community-based organizations). Projects must be sponsored by nonprofit community-based organizations registered as tax-exempt from under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or elementary, middle, or high schools.
For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Local Initiatives Support Corporation website.