Kids enrolled in sports and recreation programs at The Police Athletic League on Longwood Avenue will benefit from a $200,000 grant to help expand athletic opportunities.
The award, which will be spread across three years, was provided to the city’s network of PALS by the StubHub Foundation, which calls itself “the world’s largest ticket marketplace, enabling fans to buy and sell tickets to tens of thousands of sports, concert, theater and other live entertainment events.”
“Linking PAL’s sports programming to StubHub’s focus on sports and entertainment experiences is a natural partnership” that will benefit kids, said the league’s executive director, Alana Sweeny.
The partnership kicked off with a Summer Play Streets program, where representatives from StubHub came to Longwood to help entertain local kids and to help train them in the fundamentals of soccer, sportsmanship, teamwork, and staying fit.
Over 700 kids take part in the non-profit organization’s soccer activities. Its soccer clinics will continue in the fall at PAL’s Teen Impact Centers.
Over 13,000 boys and girls in all five boroughs participate in PAL sports programs and Cops & Kids Sports year-round, with programs in basketball from January to March, soccer in the spring, softball in the summer and flag football in the fall.