America SCORES Bay Area; Fields of Dreams Playground Initiative

Asphalt to Turf Initiative

The below video tells the story of why America SCORES Bay Area plans to transform 75,000 square feet of unsightly asphalt into green, safe, and beautiful fields of dreams. 

Crowdfunding Campaign Launched November 1 2013!

America SCORES invites Footballing Community to share in their vision to change the Beautiful Game for low-income youth and communities in San Francisco, one field and one school community at a time. YOU CAN HELP – TAKE ACTION NOW! Post a comment on the crowdfunding campaign home page explaining why you support America SCORES and this cause Share the Field of Dreams crowdfunding link via email, facebook, and twitter Give a small donation to help us gain crowdfunding momentum – $15 installs one square foot of turf Consider joining our Dream Team – info below* WHY CLICK AND FORWARD? – America SCORES is trying to change decades of status quo that have resulted in asphalt and concrete playgrounds.  Share our story and video now.  Share it with your friends, families and Footballing Community. Change happens when a small group of committed people make it happen.  It is never easy to move the needle on the status quo.  The first step is to take action. America SCORES needs you to help push open the gate.  Lean in.  Let’s transform urban public school yards into green, safe, and exciting places.  For every $15 raised, America SCORES Bay Area can install one square foot of turf. Their goal for the online campaign is 500 donors and $50,000 by December 31st.    America SCORES already completed our first transformation at Cleveland Elementary School in the Excelsior.  Next up include schools in the Tenderloin, Mission, Bayview, and more… The Field of Dreams initiative furthers the mission of America SCORES by transforming 75,000 square feet of unsightly asphalt into green, beautiful, and safe play spaces.  Working with stakeholders at all levels, America SCORES seeks to develop 18 micro soccer fields in San Francisco to benefit nearly 6,000 low-income youth.  In addition to the new fields over the next three years, America SCORES will double the number of participants in the “Words in Action” after-school program with the goal of 90 teams running at more than 30 public school communities in low-income under-resourced neighborhoods.   For a complete pdf description and overview of this program: click here. Want to learn more about the work America SCORES does?  Come to a SCORES Tour! Click on the sign up link to attend a session.