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programs & partners

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F3 Soccer & Literacy Programs are designed to help generate excitement about reading. Using the Jamie Johnson Soccer Novel Series, F3 works with volunteer coaches and teachers to help engage youth by combining soccer and reading. 

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​The Environmental Awareness Program​ (EAP) is aimed to enhance the relationship Pathways Park has with its neighboring ecosystems. To do so the EAP executes landscape agendas at the park, such as tree planting, habitat/biodiversity remediation, and general field maintenance. Additionally, the EAP aims to provide various educational opportunities for our F3 family including environmental education programs in the park garden like the CESA Sprouts Program.

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Columbus East Soccer Association (CESA), since 1984, has made it a mission to ensure that each child who joins the program, enjoys the game of soccer. CESA provides a youth soccer recreational program for boys and girls ages 3 – 18 years old. In addition to running leagues and programs. 

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​​Columbus East Football Club (CEFC) offers a dedicated club soccer environment with an emphasis placed on player development within the group structure. CEFC intends to deliver a curriculum based on best practices gleaned from some of the leading soccer academies in the world. These core values incorporate an understanding that winning at the youth level is not a prerequisite for molding and coaching elite soccer players.

​Ohio Youth Academy is a youth soccer organization serving the East African Community. F3 works with OYA to provide a soccer home for the club at Pathways Park (Easton). OYA currently has about 150 players from U6 - U18 participating in their program. The organization also has several teams participating in F3's recreational partner program, CESA.

Galacticos FC is a youth soccer organization serving the Latinx Community. GFC currently has about 160 players from U5 - U18 participating in their program. The organization also has several teams participating in F3's recreational partner program, CESA.

​ Columbus Lions is a youth soccer organization serving mostly the West African Community. F3 works with Columbus Lions to provide a soccer home for the organization at Pathways Park (Easton). Columbus Lions currently has about 70 players from U6 - U18 participating in their program. The organization also has several teams participating in F3's recreational partner program, CESA.

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Events

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Columbus Nations Cup is a soccer tournament and festival celebrating the city's diversity and benefiting Final Third Foundation and the event's community partner, the Community Refugee & Immigration Services (CRIS) Mentorship Program. .
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Projects

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​Final Third Foundation is the fiscal sponsor of the Likoni Community Football League, a soccer and development organization based in Likoni, Mombasa, Kenya.  Founded in May 2011, the LCFL is a Kenyan Community Based Organization (CBO) formed for the purpose of providing a competition base that exposes young people to the sport of soccer and provides opportunities to create social improvement and leaders within the community. 

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