Sports and Cooperation Network (Red Deporte y Cooperación) – referred to here as Sport Network - is a nonprofit organization based in Spain and the United States. Entering its second decade, Sport Network specializes in using the power of sport and physical activity to educate youth and unite communities in the developing countries of Africa, South America, and Caribbean through broad-based educational programs and by constructing or renovating community sports facilities in impoverished neighborhoods. Specifically, our education and health components for youth focus on:

• leadership skills
• gender equality
• psychomotor development
• academic enhancement
• AIDS/HIV prevention
• hygiene
• alcohol/drug prevention
• potable water stewardship 

We also work directly with kids in Spain to bring about awareness of the various cultures where we operate internationally through sport-art exhibits, presentations in schools, and outreach events in the community. Locally, in Madrid - where our headquarters is situated - we are involved with integration programs for immigrant youth.

Our organization’s goal is to foster education, basic healthcare, and social integration of vulnerable children and youth in developing countries through sport, and our experience has taught us that sports is a great means to help all –particularly youth- to overcome traumas, promote reconciliation, work for women’s equality, promote access to education in poor, rural areas, and to help victims of injustice restore a sense of self-confidence.

Our sources of funding include private donations and public and private grants for our initiatives. Beyond our organization’s mission, we strive to be a point of reference for anybody interested in sport’s capacity to unite and dignify human beings.

Our team is made up of board members, paid staff and volunteers. Some of our personnel work in developing countries in partnership with our counterparts.