To empower students in urban communities using soccer, writing, creative expression, and service-learning. With teamwork as the unifying value, we inspire youth to lead healthy lifestyles, be engaged students, and become agents of change in the communities.

America SCORES is a soccer league with the purpose of providing boys and girls with an alternative to spending after-school time on the streets. In 1994, a public school teacher in Washington, DC started a soccer league with the purpose of providing girls with an alternative to spending after-school time on the streets. She discovered her students were eager to learn the sport and in the process developed greater self-esteem, positive peer interactions, stronger attachments to school, and a motivation to exercise. Within the next several years, America SCORES expanded upon this innovative model and brought it to more than 6.000 youth in urban public school districts serving 14 cities.

Soccer & health
Literacy