This is the federal website for the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP). The Office of Community Services, Division of Community Discretionary Programs (DCDP) administers this program.

An annual grant is made to a national, non-profit organization to operate the National Youth Sports Program. The Program provides a comprehensive developmental and instructional sports program for approximately 70,000 low-income youth. The major goal is to motivate low-income youth to earn and learn self-respect through a program of sports instruction and competition.

In FY 2002 - $17,000,000 was awarded to the National Youth Sports Corporation which contracts with some 203 colleges and universities in 49 States to provide sports instruction and enrichment activities to disadvantaged youngsters from ages 10 to 16 for a summer program. The program includes supervised sports instruction in at least four sports, using the campus facilities of the colleges and universities. The enrichment component provides low-income youth with information concerning career and educational opportunities, study habits, drug and alcohol abuse and nutrition. In addition, each participant receives a complete medical examination.

Click here to view the NYSP Institutional Directory (HTML - 322k)