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Spirit of Football (SOF) is an award-winning, nonprofit organization based in Germany, England and Brazil. Since 2005, SOF has been running programs using football as a tool to tackle the most pertinent challenges facing societies and the planet. SOF operates under three principle pillars of “diversity”, “respect”, and “teamwork”.

Every 4 years since 2002, “The Ball” (one football) has travelled overland from Battersea Park in London, where the first official football match took place, to the FIFA World Cup using a common call to action: “One Ball, One World”. The Ball is more than just a journey; Spirit of Football works closely with multiple partners along the way on specific social and environmental topics. From exchange platforms to policy change, The Ball brings together a diverse group of stakeholders from governments, schools, the football industry & civil society.

In 2022 and 2023, for the first time ever, The Ball is traveling to the FIFA Women’s World Cup in New Zealand and Australia, delivering workshops to identify local environmental problems, demonstrate their global relevance and showcase possible solutions to climate change. This time The Ball uses the positive power of the world’s most popular sport to encourage people to commit to climate action.

GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf is the international non-profit entirely dedicated to helping accelerate sustainability in and through golf. Its goal is to work collaboratively to help the sport embrace environmental and social issues and become widely acclaimed for its proactive leadership in fostering nature, conserving resources, building stronger communities and taking climate action.

 

Our mission is to harness the power of athletes to inspire climate action. There are many athletes who already want to use their platform to make a difference to issues beyond their sport. If this is you, we’re here to support you – formulating campaigns and collaborating with every athlete who wants to use their voice for good. Whether you’ve already spoken out on issues you care about, or have never really considered it, all of us can worry that we don’t have enough knowledge to use our voice, or that if we do speak we’ll be called hypocrites. Whatever your experience, we’re creating training and resources to support athletes as confident, effective advocates for change.

Healthy Stadia is a European NGO specialising in the cross-cutting areas of preventative public health, stadium operations and research.

Yunus Sports Hub is the global social business network creating local solutions in and through sport. Led by Professor Muhammad Yunus, the social business ecosystem advocates for businesses created to solve human & environmental problems across sectors. Yunus Sports Hub brings the two worlds of sport and social business together.

For further information on Yunus Sports Hub: https://yunussportshub.com/

We are a new breed of sporting alchemists connecting purpose-driven athletes, sports and brands.

Using smart, data-driven solutions we help professional athletes across all sports build stronger brands, tell powerful stories, improve media coverage and increase commercial opportunities.

Our aim is to level the uneven playing field in UK sport.

The Sustainable Event Alliance is a global guild of events and sports industry professionals and suppliers. We connect people all over the world who are passionate and dedicated to producing events, sports and festivals sustainably and importantly, to using their powerful platform for good. The SEA Accredited Professionals programme reviews sustainability skills and validates competency in this essential field.

The Sports Environment Alliance (SEA) is committed to do more {for the world} with less {footprint} so we can continue to have places to play.

We find value in sharing knowledge and building networks to enhance the industry’s engagement in the clean economy to more effectively manage the changes in our natural environment..