Impact Report - 2025 DRAFT-2 - Flipbook - Page 9
June 2020
PeacePlayers United States Youth Leader Javonn
Islar Awarded Billie Jean King Youth Leadership
Award
November 2020
PeacePlayers United States is Awarded Dicks
Sporting Goods/Beyond Sport’s Collective Impact
Award for Reducing Racial Inequality Through
Sport
October 2021
Nike featured Natalie Gutierrez of PeacePlayers
Los Angeles in their Hispanic Heritage Month
Campaign
PeacePlayers Los Angeles Recognized by the Los
Angeles Clippers as a "Community Hero" at
Clipper Game
November 2021
2021 Youth In Sports Award Recipient at the 1st
Annual KwaZulu-Natal Youth Business Awards
(South Africa)
KwaZulu-Natal Department of Sports and
Recreation Awards - 2021 Recreation Body of the
Year Award Recipient (South Africa)
June 2022
Cultural Arts Academy Charter School Honors
PeacePlayers Brooklyn with "Organization Leading by
Example" Award
The NY Liberty (with Laureus) Honors PeacePlayers
Brooklyn Team During the Sport for Good Night at the
Barclay Center
July 2022
PeacePlayers Northern Ireland receives the Rotary
Clubs Peace Award
September 2022
Joanne Fitzpatrick and PeacePlayers featured at
#PeaceHeroine, a @HerstoryIreland exhibition
May 2023
PeacePlayers Los Angeles JrNBA 2023 Program of the
Year Finalist
August 2023
PeacePlayers Receives Naismith Basketball Hall of
Fame’s 2023 Mannie Jackson Basketball’s Human
Spirit Award
September 2023
US Co-Executive Director, Sally Nnamani testified at
US Capitol at the USOPC Commission Hearing on the
Future of Olympic & Paralympic Sports
November 2023
Northern Ireland Coach Luke Marshall, was nominated
for ‘Disability Coach of the Year’ with Sport NI
December 2023
PeacePlayers NI nominated for the ‘Sport for Change
Award at the British Sports Awards with The Sports
Journalists’ Association of Great Britain.
April 2024
PeacePlayers NI featured in the PBS
documentary Bridging Divides: Sharing
Heartbeats
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