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At LPF Ohio, volunteers from Besa have been a major help with organizing incoming donations. BESA’s volunteer work at LPF was recently covered by WCMH-TV, NBC4 in Columbus.

Get to know the four nonprofits vying to win the 2024 Wawa Foundation Hero Award. The finalists — As I Plant This Seed, Leveling the Playing Field, Philadelphia Fire/EMS Explorer Career Youth Development Program and Project 440 — hope to get the $50,000 grant that comes with winning the award. You can vote now.

Vote for this year’s award recipient by June 28th! Your vote will help decide if LPF should receive The 2024 Wawa Foundation Hero Award and the $50,000 grant!

LPF is teaming up with New Jersey State Senator Troy Singleton, Malamut & Associates Law Office, and the Philadelphia Union to collect sports equipment through June 12th. The drive was highlighted on KYW Newsradio via Audacy

Learn more about three seniors at Severna Park High School who are collecting sports equipment in this article from Eye on Annapolis

Three time NFL Pro Bowl TE and current FOX broadcaster Greg Olsen recaps his time hosting the 2024 Project Play Conference in this interview with USA Today. Olsen mentions Leveling the Playing Field as an organization he learned about at the Summit that provides important resources for youth in income restricted families

With Baltimore as the center stage for this year, Project Play Summit, The Aspen Institute’s Jon Solomon wrote an opinion piece for the Baltimore Banner explaining not only why youth sports is important, but the steps that local non-profits, including Leveling the Playing Field, are taking to ensure that the progress built since 2017 is […]

With the 2024 Project Play Summit hosted in Baltimore, Leveling the Playing Field is mentioned as an organization working to fill the youth sports gap in the city.

Leveling the Playing Field is one of several non-profits mentioned that are working to give youth more access to sports and sports equipment in Western New York. LPF Executive Director Max Levitt, LPF WNY Program Director Taylor Cicoria, and the WNY warehouse are featured in the article.  

LPF is not only around to help ease the financial burden on parents, but also to give kids an equal opportunity to thrive in youth sports.