Level Playing Field

using soccer to promote cultural exchange and gender equality across the americas

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At Level Playing Field Inc (LPF), we believe that sport has the unique power to bring people of diverse backgrounds together to help create a more just world.

Level Playing Field (LPF) is a not-for-profit (501c3), social enterprise dedicated to improving the lives of young women on both sides of the wealth divide. LPF runs soccer camps for girls aged 14 to 17 in Latin America. Our camps are developed and run by volunteer Student Coaches who work closely with local NGO partners to build bridges with their counterparts across the hemisphere, using sport to empower both groups.

We aim to harness the power of sport by bringing soccer to teenage girls in Latin America who lack access to it in their daily lives. We hope that through our program -- in which talented, committed student athletes from the US become coaches and role models for girls who have not enjoyed the same access to sport -- both groups will take the first steps necessary to achieve more equal, just, and open societies.

Check out CNN's coverage of our 2011 camp:

Sport is increasingly recognized as an important tool in helping the United Nations achieve its objectives, in particular the Millennium Development Goals. By including sport in development and peace programmes in a more systematic way, the United Nations can make full use of this cost-efficient tool to help us create a better world.

- Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations

news & events

2012 Camp Applications
Now accepting individual and group applications for the 2012 camp. Click here to download an application form.

2011 Camp Blog
See all the photos and read about the many adventures of our 2011 camp on the LPF Blog.

Give One, Get One!
See how you can purchase an indestructible One World Futbol soccer ball and support LPF.

LPF on CNN
Thanks to CNN for coming to spend time at our Camp in La Paz. Watch the video in english or spanish.

Level Playing Field Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3)