Impact
What community support looks like in motion — real resources, real partnerships, and more places for kids to play.
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Our activation journey
Each site is a story of partnership — schools, coaches, families, and supporters making something real together.
Alanton Elementary School
Our first activation. Two professional-grade 24×8 soccer goals donated, ceremony held, and a community partnership launched. One boy and one girl took the first ceremonial shots in front of cheering classmates. The Alanton Pitch is now home to our free pickup soccer nights.
Blair Middle School
Two professional-grade 24×8 soccer goals donated, ending a years-long routine where players walked a half-mile each way to a nearby elementary school just to access goals. Featured by Norfolk Public Schools.
The Great Neck Pitch
Our first field built from the ground up. An unused stretch of church lawn became a 140 × 140 ft grass pitch — leveled with sand, seeded, lined with a 6-yard box, an 18-yard box and the penalty spot, and mowed every week. Backstop netting went up 16 feet high, and goals come in three sizes that move anywhere on the field. There's a playground for younger siblings and a covered picnic table for parents. Home to free pickup soccer, clinics, group training, and community play.
The Great Neck Pitch is private property and is not open to the public. Play here is by scheduled For the Players Foundation programming only. We're grateful to Great Neck Baptist Church for opening this space to local kids.
The next field
Three sites down. We're working on the fourth right now and we'll announce it as soon as it's ready. Every one of these started the same way — someone told us about a piece of ground that wasn't being used. Have a field, a lot, or an empty stretch of grass at your school, church or neighborhood? Tell us about it.
What each program has delivered
Every dollar and donation flows into work that removes a real, specific barrier to play.
The More Play Network
Building and activating soccer spaces at Hampton Roads schools, parks, and communities — and now powering our free pickup soccer, where kids just show up and play. Goals go in, equipment arrives, programs begin, and a forgotten corner of a campus becomes a field that matters.
Learn MoreThe Teammate Project
Covering registration fees, uniforms, and gear so no child sits out because of what their family can or cannot afford. Every player sponsored is a kid back on the field.
Learn MoreCleats for Kids
Collecting and redistributing gently-used cleats to youth players across Hampton Roads. A pair sitting in a closet becomes the pair a kid needed to finally join the team.
Learn MoreWhere the support comes from
Cash raised through community giving, plus in-kind contributions from partners that multiply our reach.
Goals, equipment, HRSC donations, raffle support, and partner contributions that make every activation possible.
Every dollar funds the mission and supports the players.
Our partners
Hampton Roads Soccer Council
Ten 24'×8' aluminum goals — the foundation of every activation we've completed and every site to come. With special thanks to Lauren Bland, Executive Director, and Matt Whalen, Director of Operations & Director of U.S. Open.
Opened their lawn to local kids and made The Great Neck Pitch possible — our first field built from the ground up.
Partner district for our Alanton Elementary activation — our first major VBCPS school site.
Partner district for our Blair Middle School activation — our first major school site.
Mission-aligned support helping expand access to soccer for kids across Hampton Roads.
Equipment discounts that make it possible to outfit more sites with quality soccer gear.
Donates the transportation and logistics that move our goals and equipment where they need to go.
Construction expertise supporting the build-out of soccer spaces at our activation sites.
Construction and site expertise that helps bring our activation projects to life.
Donated turf field time for free pickup soccer, plus collaboration and shared promotion across the community.
Community partner showing up for activations and supporting youth soccer development in Hampton Roads.
Bringing collegiate energy and mentorship to school activation events and youth programming.
Joined us on the ground at the Alanton Elementary activation, helping make our first site a reality.
Stood with us at the Alanton Elementary activation, helping bring the day together.
The work isn't finished.
There are more schools, more kids, more fields that could come alive. If you'd like to help build what's next — through a donation, a sponsorship, or by bringing the foundation to your school — we'd love to talk.