GPBF Grantee, PeacePlayers International, Receives National Award

PeacePlayers International (PPI), a Global Peace Building Foundation (GPBF)  grantee, was recently selected a winner of the 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Sports Award.  GPBF is proud to support PPI in their efforts to bridge divides through basketball.

Given to just three organizations yearly, the $7,500 award recognizes honorees for their “innovative and influential approaches to using sports to improve the Culture of Health in their communities.” For more than 40 years, the RWJF has worked to improve health and health care. The Sports Award honors the efforts of PPI to build healthier communities through sport.

The award will help PPI raise awareness as they  partner with Nike to expand their programming in the United States (Brooklyn, Baltimore, Detroit), striving towards a world where youth who play together can learn to live together.  We congratulate PPI on this honor and look forward to our continued collaboration.

July, 2017