Sounders FC today announced that the Seattle Housing Authority’s Yesler Redevelopment has been awarded the 2018 Urban Soccer Symposium Innovation Award from the U.S. Soccer Foundation, the national model for sports-based youth development programs in underserved communities. SHA earned the award for utilizing an imaginative approach and original programming to create positive social change in underserved communities, including collaborative efforts with RAVE Foundation and Sounders FC to integrate soccer into the cultural framework of the historic downtown Seattle neighborhood.
“We are honored by this award and by our tremendous partnership with Seattle Sounders FC and RAVE Foundation,” said Andrew Lofton, Executive Director of the Seattle Housing Authority.