Our History

Most recently, we are working with the National Futsal Development Program. HandsOnSports Foundation is supporting young athletes who have the talent and drive in futsal, but lack the financial resources to participate in the training and international experiences.

Since the breakout of war in Ukraine in early 2022 we have collaborated with multiple entities and have contributed more than $1,000,000 worth of donated supplies to the relief efforts there.

In 2021 we began collaborating with other not for profits by contributing medical supplies and soccer equipment and shipping full cargo containers to aid in the relief and humanitarian efforts in Liberia and Ghana.

When the COVID19 breakout began in 2020, HOSF switched gears once again and began to provide essential PPE and other supplies to more than 40 free clinics within the state of Ohio. We continue to provide donations to these organizations which include homeless shelters, battered women’s shelters, veterans services, youth medical and dental clinics and various other clinics that find the supplies valuable to the constituents that they serve.

HandsonSports Foundation gathered and provided supplies to the farmers in Nebraska for the Mississippi flood relief efforts in 2018.

In 2017, we shipped more than $200,000 in value to support hurricane and humanitarian relief efforts in Puerto Rico.

In 2016 we expanded our mission to provide medical supplies to those most in need. We began with Proyecto Talamanca where we packed and shipped over $350,000 with of medical supplies on a cargo ship to distribute to and serve the 3 indigenous tribes residing in the Talamancan jungle reserve of Costa Rica.

In 2012 we began partnering with communities and municipalities to locate aged out tennis courts and rehabilitate and covert these spaces into new usable futsal play spaces for the children of neighborhoods who have not traditionally had access to the game of soccer. In the past 10 years we have consulted and collaborated on more than 12 futsal courts 7 of which are placed in NE Ohio.

The HandsOnSports Foundation started in 2009 with an aim to assist Recreation Departments, the Salvation Army, schools and soccer organizations to reach underserved and at-risk youth providing futsal ‘street soccer’ play spaces, equipment and programming across the Ohio region. Over the past decade the programs reach has continued to expand including donations of equipment and supplies to countries throughout Central America, the Caribbean, South America and Africa.