Earlier this year, I shared information about the recipients of this year’s Playtex® PlayON Canada Grant Program. Playtex® Sport® created the first program to help address the inequality between girls’ and boys’ athletic teams in high school, and I am so happy to be an ambassador for it!
It’s not hard to see the inequality in many schools, and I can recall it in my own schools through elementary and high school. One memory that comes to mind? My short-lived stint as a cheerleader at my high school (don’t ask…) involved borrowing my boyfriend’s white sweatshirt and wearing it inside out so the logo wouldn’t be seen, so us girls could all have matching white shirts for the first football game of the season. For whatever reason, the shirts for the girls cheerleading squad hadn’t been ordered for that year. The boys? Their football team had every piece of equipment and uniforms they needed.
Last year, my daughter wore a boy’s basketball jersey for her track meet. Oversized, and gathered at the side with an elastic band and falling off her shoulders as she ran, we made it work so she could run and compete. It shouldn’t have to be this way.
There’s a lack of funding for all sports teams in school, but there’s a difference and it’s clear when it comes to girls teams and this needs to change. Having the funding available for these teams can make the difference between being able to qualify and attend a tournament, to having a team exist at all!
The grant requests submitted by students and coaches this year spanned the need for uniforms and equipment to team travel costs and facility rentals, from a range of high school sports, including field hockey, curling, weightlifting, and volleyball. The Playtex® PlayON™ Canada Grant Program gave a total of $50,000 in grants with each team receiving as much as $5000!
NOW is the time to apply for the PlayON Canada Grant Program for 2018! If you’ve watched your daughter’s teams and wondered where the heck the money is for uniforms, travel, and more – this is your opportunity to make it rain!
There’s big news to share too – the grant amount has been increased to a total of $5150 per grant instead of $5000. The application deadline is September 30, 2017 at 11:59 a.m.
Visit PlaytexPlayON.ca to learn how you and your team can apply today!
Sure sounds like a great program to help the girls teams.
What a great program!
That is a great program as school just don’t have the founding
This sounds like a great program because girls really do deserve better and there should be better and more stuff to help girls.
This is such a great initiative spearheaded my Playtex as there are a lot of sports teams that could use this support.
I agree that there is gender inequality in school sports. And I love that this grant is available to help offset that inbalance.
Sounds like a great program, kudos to Playtex!
This sounds like a great program.
Great program
This is an awesome program to help support our girls
It is so good that companies are supporting teams. Good for Playtex.
Great program. I might not have dumped PhysEd as soon as humanly possible in high school if it had been around when I was a teenager.
Great endeavor! I’m all for it!
Thanks yo Playtex for this initiative! It’s important that everyone gets to play and try a variety of sports. This grant will give many teams across the country even more opportunity.
As the Mother of girls; I love this program 🙂
That’s awesome! Kids sports are always seen as “secondary”.
It’s heartbreaking to see gender inequalities still playing a large role in today’s society. I’m super happy and excited by this initiative and the offer of these grants!
This is an awesome program for girls!!
oh my gosh that is absolutely amazing!!! $50,000 in grants !! my goodness. so very great of them to do such a thing <3
A great initiative to promote girls in sports.
Very necessary program. I too have memories of the female teams getting less attention and equipment.
Thank you, accessibility is important. Girls involved in sports have lower teen pregnancies and drug mis-use.
Love this! I remember my daughter asking me one time if an activity was “just for boys or girls too”? Such a reality check to hear her even say that!
What a marvellous programme this is. I love it when firms give back in some way. Playtex is doing a great job of equaling out the discrepancy between boys and girls teams.
What a great program, good for Playtex to offer this grant!
This is great! Women’s and girl’s sports are too often second fiddle to the men and boys and it needs to stop!
What a great program! Sports can be expensive to play and it is wonderful to have a grant program such as this to help “level out the playing field”.
it’s hard to be a girl and a professional athlete – girls don’t get to be the big paid promotional people for named brands either
This is such a cool program. Glad that they are investing in the future 🙂
Great support for our youth.
Wonderful program! So great to encourage participation in sports and an active lifestyle.
I am glad to hear that Playtex supports girls because they need encouragement.I love to hear about programs like this.That’s awesome!
Playtex® PlayON Canada Grant Program. Playtex® Sport® created the first program to help address the inequality between girls’ and boys’ athletic teams in high school -what a fab program to give the girls just as much chance as the boys.
Wonderful idea and a great program!
Such a great program for young girls!
This program is amazing im glad its been started
This is great as there are lots of girls in sports and they deserve support too!
I’ve heard of this program prior and just love that it is out there! It is unfortunate that in the world today girls still do not have the same chance as boys do when it comes to sports – I love that this program is helping to change that
This is such a great program!
That’s an amazing grant program. I love when companies are this generous to such worthwhile causes.
This is great! I can think back to days where I had to wear wrong sized sports equitment and jerseys. This grant & program will open doors for our girls!
Well having good gear would make it easier to play.
What a great program to help girls out as yes it is expensive for sports teams and this amount of money would definitely help.
What a great program..I had no idea that there was funds out there..I shall pass this info along
Wow – I hope it helps a lot of girls see that they are equal!
That’s a great program. There shouldn’t be such a discrepancy!
What a great program! I have shared this with the coaches at my school. 🙂
What an awesome program!
Great program! I was lucky to grow up in an area that valued girl’s sports just as much as boys and it definitely made the girls get involved. We had just as many girl’s teams as boy’s teams in softball, soccer and basketball…and we had co-ed hockey!
What a wonderful program
Love this, I was in many sports in school.
This sounds like a wonderful program! More funding is always needed.
Hooray for girl power! There needs to be much more equality between boys & girls for sports! This is a wonderful program to make some much needed changes.