Sports & Society

Launched in 2013, Project Play develops insights, ideas and opportunities to help stakeholders build healthy communities through sports. We identify gaps in access and quality in sports for young people and empower leading organizations to fill them. Each year, we promote new ideas at the Project Play Summit, the nation’s premier gathering of leaders at the intersection of youth, sports and health.

Future of Sports is a conversation series that gathers leaders of diverse perspectives to think through the biggest ideas in sports. Topics have included college athlete compensation, athlete activism, football’s future, climate change in sports, and the growth of women’s professional sports. The events have generated national media coverage and helped shape what good looks like in sports policy.

The Aspen Ideas Festival is the nation’s premier gathering place for leaders to engage in deep discussion of ideas and issues that shape and challenge our lives. Through Aspen Ideas, and its related conferences focused on health and climate change, the Sports & Society Program explores the intersections between sports and society by identifying speakers, moderating sessions and releasing reports.