Impact
What community support looks like in motion — real resources, real partnerships, and more places for kids to play.
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Reached
Support
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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. Check out the fun we had with the Alanton Astros on Field Day!
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.
Site Three
Something new is almost ready — our next field is in the works, and the reveal is coming soon. Stay tuned. Want to bring the foundation to your school or community? Get in touch.
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.
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.
Facilities support, collaboration, and shared promotion that strengthen our community presence.
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.