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Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle has been introducing you to the four finalists for the Wawa Foundation Hero Award. Here are the details of one of the finalists – Leveling the Playing Field – a organization that makes sure all kids have access to sports. 

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

The Buffalo Bisons have teamed up with ‘Leveling the Playing Field’ to hold a Used Sports Equipment Drive for the team’s World Softball Day Game, Thursday, June 13 as the Herd hosts the Worcester Red Sox (6:35 p.m. | Drive begins at 5:00 p.m.)

Lacrosse Unlimited’s donation of $136,000 worth of equipment to Leveling the Playing Field will be spread to under-resourced lacrosse programs within five cities. Our press release has all the details on our new partnership with Lacrosse Unlimited, the Long Island, NY, based international lacrosse retailer.

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 […]