Coaches across Continents is now accepting Community Partner Requests for 2012.  We ask all potential partners to fill in the Potential Partners 2012 application form and e-mail it as soon as possible.  Coaches across Continents receive 1 new potential partner application every day and our Business Advisory Board are working through these applications to schedule the 2012 programs.  Applying for a partnership is extremely competitive and we ask all potential partners to spend time on the application to ensure that we have all the necessary information to help us make a good decision. 

Thank you for applying and we look forward to reading all about your great work.

Partner Application CLOSES February 29th, 2012.

Click here to download the Potential Partners Application Form 2012

 The Coaches across Continents Hat-Trick Initiative:

Coaches across Continents was launched in June 2008. Based on first –hand research in 65 countries in the past 7 years, Coaches across Continents developed a unique face-to face and on-line educational curriculum that uses soccer games to educate teachers/volunteers and children on health, leadership, life and social skills. Its projects are called ‘Hat-Trick Initiatives’ and take place over three years. In year1, local teachers and volunteers are trained by international coaches within their own communities to use the Coaches across Continents curriculum. This training is further developed each year for three consecutive years. In year 2, one coach from a local community is funded to travel and work in a different community to gain cultural, social and soccer education to take back with them and inform their subsequent work within their own community. In year 3, fields and equipment plus school supplies are provided, so that local programmes become self sustainable by the local community. On-going and year-round mentoring utilising Coaches across Continents unique on-line curriculum ensures that all communities involved have support both throughout the Hat-Trick Initiative and in the years to follow, thus facilitating sustainability

The Business Model for Success

Coaches across Continents will provide the following services, funds and/or goods to organizations that demonstrate a shared vision for the value of using football (soccer) to develop life and leadership skills for children in developing regions:

1. The services of experienced football educators to work with partner organizations in developing regions to educate local coaches, work with local children and provide a ‘cascade model’ that coaches coaches to coach coaches thus ultimately creating community leaders. If necessary and where possible, soccer equipment will be provided as part of this program.
2. Funds and services for placement and mentor programs for coaches travelling from a developing region to gain experience working for a soccer program in the USA, before returning to their communities to work with local children.
3. Travel funds and coaching program services for coaches and children traveling to developing regions to ‘play and learn’ with children. If necessary and where possible, soccer equipment will be provided as part of this program.
4. Full and partial funding for teams of children travelling from a developing region to learn through soccer with children from the US.
5. A complete on-line ‘education through football’ service program with individually designed curriculum and year-round mentoring. 

If your organization are interested in partnering with Coaches across Continents, please contact brian@coachesacrosscontinents.org