$435K in expenses

Build programout commitment to build or renovate all outdoor athletic facilities for oklahoma city public schools. As of september 2023, fields & futures has built 70 sports fields at 22 different campuses. Beyond renovations, we also provide perpetual field maintenance to ensure that the improved playing surfaces remain clean, safe, and in-service to attract use year-round by students, non-profits, youth organization, and citizens living in nearby neighborhoods.

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Empower programa commitment to providing programs that distribute resources and information to the 265+ coaches within the okcps district. In our efforts to reduce the turnover rate of coaching positions, the organization has developed programs to aid in the professional development of coaches. Since 2013, the organization has underwritten and organized three coaching clinics per year: covering fall, winter, and spring sports. Outside of skilled clinicians teaching advanced lessons to coaches. The coaching clinics provide a platform for community partners and agencies to participate in break-out sessions to share critical information not always accessible on the respective campuses.we provide sports camps, clinics, summer programming, unique athletic experiences and program support to increase student participation across the district. In addition, we support local urban core youth sports programs and leagues to increase their participation to insure a growing stream of youth into okcps middle school and high school teams. More kids on more teams is our goal and maximizes our impact.

$1.0M in expenses

Inspire programa commitment to developing programs that provide motivation, support, training, and inspiration for students and communities throughout the district.out goal is to help attract students to interscholastic teams and extra-curricular programs, and to help coaches and faculty meet the basic needs to ensure high year-over-year retention rates. As we say, "if they play, they stay. And if they stay, they graduate." core program efforts aim to remove barriers students may face, including: cost of sports physicals, hunger, healthy nutrition, reliable transportation, and safe playing equipment. Other on-going efforts also extend to educating parents, guardians, principals, teachers, and coaches about the benefits of students playing team sports. There is an extreme causation found between students who are physically active and committed to teams and their respective academic successes, classroom behavior, graduation prospects and other positive downstream outcomes.