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03-14-2014, 12:37 PM
'Sports Matter,' Says Campaign to Help Underfunded Youth Athletics
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Youth sports programs are declining in large part because funding is drying up. **w, Dick's Sporting Goods wants to tackle that problem.
The Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation unveiled a $25 million, multi-year commitment to support underfunded youth sports programs through an initiative called Sports Matter (https://sportsmatter.com/) launched this month. The Sports Matter initiative will award up to $2 million in matching grants to teams that achieve their fundraising goals. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/14/sports-matter-dicks-sporting-goods/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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