CAC RECOGNIZE FIRST GROUP IN ACCREDITATION PROGRAM
May 10, 2019
This week, Beyond Sport Global Award winning organization, Coaches Across Continents (CAC), recognized the first-ever recipients of their global Organizational Accreditation Program in “Purposeful Play and Education Outside the Classroom.”
GOALS Armenia, ACER Brasil and training4changeS (South Africa) were the first recipients of the accreditation that launched in January of this year. The three groups were recognized for “demonstrating organizational growth and capacity-building to create legacies of social change based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through Purposeful Play.” .
They are being recognized as model organizations within CAC’s global partnership network covering 60 countries and impacting over 16 million children.
To be recognized, these groups engaged with their CAC Process Consultants to develop their organizations through CAC’s 28 Strategic Resources which includes: Creating a Theory of Change Model, Designing a Women’s Rights Policy, Monitoring & Evaluation Process Consultancy, Child and Community-Based Protection Training and more.
GOALS Armenia, ACER Brasil and training4changeS staff and On-Field educators are also certified in CAC’s Self-Directed Learning Methodology and Purposeful Play: Creating Education Outside the Classroom.
With the help of Corporate Partnerships and Foundations such as Games 4 Good, Michael Johnson Young Leaders, Soccer Sisters and Beyond Sport, these three organizations were able to make history as the world’s first ever programs to be awarded the accreditation.
In a statement on their website, CAC said “GOALS Armenia, ACER Brasil, and training4changeS are truly making the world a better place through Purposeful Play.”
“It is CAC’s honor to recognize them with this accreditation. We look forward to other organizations with CAC’s global network joining this elite trio by engaging in CAC’s year-round strategic resources and delivering Purposeful Play in their communities.”
Coaches Across Continents won the 2009 Best New Project Award and the 2018 Global Impact Awards at the Beyond Sport Global Awards. To learn more about this year’s Awards - or to get started on your application - head to beyondsport.org/awards.