Community Grant is part of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Responsible Sports program which is an ongoing effort championing and celebrating responsibility in youth sports. This community-based program offers meaningful, easy-to-use educational resources for youth sports parents and coaches. “The Liberty Mutual Insurance Responsible Sports program targets many of the issues we see happening at youth sporting events by shining a positive light on what it means to be a responsible coach and a responsible sport parent. Beyond that, Liberty Mutual is supporting local organizations like Electric City Soccer Club offset the costs of providing a valuable youth sports experience,” said Julie Brassard, Marketing Manager at Liberty Mutual Insurance.
The Responsible Sports program, including the Community Grants, comes at a crucial time for communities like ours. Like other communities across the U.S., our own youth sports programs are under pressure from increasing numbers of participants, limited volunteer activity and mounting program management and administration costs. The Responsible Sports program provides access to
valuable resources and assets that can ensure our organizations thrive under challenging circumstances.
“The Responsible Sports program offered by Liberty Mutual Insurance is a win-win for our soccer club and our community. Not only does it promote positive sports behaviors, but we also have an opportunity to earn grant money that could be used to make continued improvements to our equipment and facilities,” said Matthew Vandenburg, treasurer of the Electric City Soccer Club. Electric City Soccer Club is asking individual community members to read one of the online guides (Responsible Coaching and Responsible Sport Parenting) and take a quick 10-question quiz. Every completed quiz is worth one point. The top five organizations that earn the most points by May 31st in each of the three divisions will earn one of the 15 grants.
Complete details on the grants as well as the guides and quizzes are available through the official program website at ResponsibleSports.com/Grant. Electric City Soccer Club is a non-profit youth soccer club based in Butler, MO and serves over 125 players annually. More information can be found at www.electriccitysoccer.org or www.facebook.com/ElectricCitySoccerClub.
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