Building Better Humans through the Transformative Power of Sports.

ShareWaves opens the door to play for every child — and strengthens the systems that keep that door open.

Movement is the Medicine.

Every child, a clear path into the game.

THE FUTURE WE’RE BUILDING

Kansas City can become the first metropolitan region in America where every child has a clear pathway into sports and play — regardless of income or zip code. That is the future ShareWaves is building. It doesn’t exist yet — and not by accident. The youth sports crisis isn’t a sports problem. It’s a health crisis, an education crisis, a mental health crisis — and it happens to show up through sports.

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One Platform. Two kinds of work.

THE APPROACH

ShareWaves is Kansas City’s play equity platform. Not three programs and a coalition — one platform doing two kinds of work. Direct Impact — the Continuum of Opportunity opens the door for individual children. Systems Impact — the Play Equity Collective reshapes the system every child grows up inside. Together, they open the door — and keep it open.

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100+ grants. $25,000+ deployed. One coordinated region.

THE WORK

ShareWaves works alongside CPKC, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas City, Children's Mercy, and coalition partners across the Kansas City Play Equity Coalition, the Kansas City Physical Activity Plan (where ShareWaves is the formally designated Sport Sector Lead), and the national Coalitions for Sport Equity.