Participants in organized youth sports are:

3
times more likely to graduate from high school
92%
less likely to get involved with drugs
15%
more likely to go to college
30%
less likely to be obese
40%
more likely to have better test scores
75%
less likely to go to jail

*The Aspen Institute / Project Play

Our Mission

Kids and Coaches, a 501(c)(3) charity, is dedicated to supporting Nashville’s underserved inner-city children aged 5-12 by providing year-round access to youth sports leagues. Utilizing local city parks and community centers, we strive to break the cycle of poverty, improve academic performance, enhance overall health, and reduce criminal involvement and incarceration among these young individuals, fostering their educational success and personal growth.

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We Support

  • RBI Nashville
  • Football – Waverly Belmont Bulldogs
  • Cheerleading
  • Dance

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We’re always looking for great people to expand our growing community family.
If you’re available, we’d love to have you be a part!

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Please feel free to register.

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or getting involved?

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Your donation will make a real difference in the lives of Nashville’s inner-city youth.

By supporting Kids & Coaches you can help us grow inner-city youth sports programs and create positive change in our community.

Every dollar counts! Please consider donating to Kids and Coaches to help us reach and support the kids that need our help the most!

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The King Hollands & Gloria McKissack Scholarship Award

Kids & Coaches presented awards to those students who have attended our sports programs and are now attending university.

We have 26 recipients of these rewards. The Girls will be receiving the Gloria McKissack Award and the Boys will be receiving the King Hollands Award.

Both Gloria and King are the veterans of the sit-ins of the 1961 civil right movement in Nashville with John Lewis that broke open the Jim Crow barriers in the south. Those sit-ins allowed African Americans a seat at the table in a restaurant and led them to getting a seat at the university.

Davon Starling, a Waverly-Belmont Bulldog and Nashville RBI Alumni, wins Titan Football Player of the Year. He wants youth to know that:
There are other ways you can go to better yourself, you gotta know that you want better for yourself.

Davon Starling
Waverly-Belmont Bulldog and Nashville RBI Alumni
Now, this is a treasure. Why is it a treasure? It needs to be a treasure for community and for those ball teams and our young people to have routine access back to their own facilities and until that happens an injustice has been done.

(The mayor speaking on why the parks (especially Edgehill) are so important to inner City Youth for their development and future success.)

John Cooper
Edgehill Community Day 2019
Today, a child in a low-income urban community is four times less likely to play sports after school than a child in a more affluent community.
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