- Partners to collaborate on new initiatives fostering gender equity for soccer benefiting thousands of women and girls
TORONTO,
"As the
With this partnership, BMO will support more than 100,000 girls in
- The new Grow the Game, Grow the Good Women's Jr. Leadership Program
- Over 150 coaches and sport leaders with access to an important "Keeping Girls in Sport" online training module designed to enable leaders working with girls to create a safer, more positive and inclusive environment for all.
- As well as in-person training, coaching development, leadership festivals and learning opportunities.
All programs will welcome interested self-identified girls and women as active participants and blaze a trail of new leadership development opportunities, while making gender equity a cornerstone of the soccer community, where Everyone is Welcome.
Closely aligning with both BMO's Purpose and Ontario Soccer's vision of making the game of soccer both equitable and accessible to all, the program will support underrepresented groups of self-identified women and girls from BIPOC, Indigenous and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, in an effort to level the playing field.
"We are elated to welcome BMO to our Ontario Soccer partner family," stated
"Ontario Soccer, as the engine room of soccer in
Ontario Soccer is the largest Provincial Soccer Governing Body in the country with its over 550 Clubs and 18 District member organizations. BMO has a proud history of supporting soccer at the grassroots community level and was the first major bank to invest in soccer sponsorship in
For more information on these initiatives please visit Ontario Soccer at www.ontariosoccer.net.
Founded in 1901, Ontario Soccer is comprised of more than 550 Clubs servicing over 24,000 teams with 380,000 registered players, 70,000 coaches and managers, and 9,500 match officials, as well as countless volunteers, parents and supporters comprising a direct, multi-cultural community of over 1,000,000 Ontarians.
Ontario Soccer develops and delivers exceptional and sustainable programs and services throughout
An overall goal of Ontario Soccer is to assist with the equitable development of soccer as a healthy lifestyle choice, provide a talented pathway for players to excel and encourage inclusive community involvement at all levels.
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $971 billion as of July 31, 2021, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking,
SOURCE Ontario Soccer
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