Beyond Sport

Congratulations to all the winners of the Beyond Sport Awards 2011 listed below which were selected from over 400 entries from more than 115 countries.

The winning initiatives were unveiled during the Beyond Sport Summit 2011 which took place at the Crystal Towers Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa on 5-8th December 2011.

In the case of the Beyond Sport Community Awards, the winners will each receive funding and a substantial business package of technical support to help them grow and become sustainable.

The winners were chosen from the Awards Shortlist detailed below with representatives from each of the shortlisted projects flown to Cape Town South Africa, for the three days of the Summit.

Beyond Sport Community Awards

Best New Project
WINNER	Project Air Rwanda
Shortlisted Project	Host Nation	Contact/ Blog
Bidna Capoeira	West Bank/United Kingdom	Contact Blog (9)
Coach Across America	United States	Contact Blog (0)
Dance 4 Peace	United States	Contact Blog (43)
Love sports! No racism, no violence!	Romania	Contact Blog (5)
Project Air Rwanda	Rwanda	Contact Blog (0)

Sport for Social Inclusion Award
WINNER	Umthombo Surf Stars
Shortlisted Project	Host Nation	Contact/ Blog
Able in Sport. Able in Life.	The Netherlands	Contact Blog (0)
Goal of Life Redux	India	Contact Blog (0)
Hope Academy Drakenstein	South Africa	Contact Blog (7)
Street Football	United Kingdom	Contact Blog (0)
Umthombo Surf Stars	South Africa	Contact Blog (4)

UNICEF Sport for Education Award - supported by PwC
WINNER	Move 4 New Horizons
Shortlisted Project	Host Nation	Contact/ Blog
AMANDLA Ku Lutsha (a project of AMAN…	South Africa	Contact Blog (0)
Harlem RBI Summer and After-School P…	United States	Contact Blog (9)
Move 4 New Horizons	Nepal	Contact Blog (5)
Skateistan	Afghanistan	Contact Blog (2)

Sport for Conflict Resolution Award
WINNER	Play31
Shortlisted Project	Host Nation	Contact/ Blog
Play31	Sierra Leone	Contact Blog (3)
Reconstruction of social fabric in B…	Burundi	Contact Blog (0)
Skateistan	Afghanistan	Contact Blog (1)

Sport for Health Award
WINNER	Football for Hope
Shortlisted Project	Host Nation	Contact/ Blog
Extra Time	United Kingdom	Contact Blog (0)
Football for Hope	Rwanda	Contact Blog (2)
Grassroot Soccer	South Africa	Contact Blog (2)

Sport for the Environment Award

Sport for the Environment Award
WINNER	NHL Green
Shortlisted Project	Host Nation	Contact/ Blog
Chicago Youth Boxing Club: H2O for M…	United States	Contact Blog (0)
NHL Green	United States and Canada	Contact Blog (1)
THE BLUE PROJECT, including THE BLUE…	United Kingdom	Contact Blog (1)

Corporate and Federation Awards

Sport Team of the Year supported by StubHub
WINNER	The Philadelphia Eagles Football Club
Shortlisted Project	Host Nation	Contact/ Blog
Eagles Eye Mobile Program, Eagles Bo…	United States	Contact Blog (33)
Enterprise City	United Kingdom	Contact Blog (7)
Grizzlies TEAM UP Youth Mentoring	United States	Contact Blog (10)
Tactics 4 Families	United Kingdom	Contact Blog (1)

Sport Federation or Governing Body of the Year
WINNER	Australian Football League
Shortlisted Project	Host Nation	Contact/ Blog
Flying Boomerangs International Lead…	Australia	Contact Blog (1)
International Table Tennis Federatio…	210 National Associations worldwide	Contact Blog (0)
NHL GREEN	United States and Canada	Contact Blog (0)

Corporate of The Year
WINNER	Sony Corporation
Shortlisted Project	Host Nation	Contact/ Blog
Dream Goal 2010	Japan	Contact Blog (2)
Goal	United Kingdom	Contact Blog (1)
Leaving a Trace in partnership with …	Colombia	Contact Blog (2)

Innovation through Sport Award
WINNER	Eco Sports Group

Leadership in Sport Award - supported by Heidrick & Struggles
WINNER	Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA)

Judges' Awards

The Judges' Awards reward standout projects nominated by the judging panel that do not necessarily fit into the above categories, but deserve to be honoured for their outstanding work. Further nominees for Judges' Awards will be announced in the coming months, with the winners revealed at the Beyond Sport Summit in Cape Town.

Judges' Awards Nominees
Shortlisted Project	Host Nation	Contact/ Blog
Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) on their 25th anniversary	Kenya	Contact Blog (3)
Psycho-Physical Rehabilitation and Social Integration of Mine Victims and Families of Mine Victims Through Water Sports	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Contact Blog (2)

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