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We know kids do better when they have access to sport, and the 2022 Nike Community Impact Fund (NCIF) is ready to help make that happen in the communities where our employees live, work and play.    Since 2009, NCIF has awarded $10 million through 1,000+ grants to nonprofits that help create active communities and get kids moving. This year, we’ll keep the momentum going with $1.5 million in grants to support local programs in 14 cities across the U.S., Europe and Asia.    What makes the program so special: We invite employees to play a leading role in choosing grantees — because no one knows what their neighborhood needs more than the people who live there.  “These grants go straight into the community, and it is so important that we do our part to make play possible for more kids,” says Nike Watts Community Store Head Coach Paola De La Cruz, who helped determine last year’s NCIF grantees. An organization in your neighborhood can be part of that positive impact too. Applications are open now for eligible nonprofits, community organizations and schools at purpose.nike.com/ncif.

In celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Nike Ability* Network created “I Speak,” a video represented in both verbal and non-verbal language, to empower our disability community and build empathy to the diversity of all individuals’ lived experiences. At Nike, we are committed to increasing disability representation across the company and ensuring our environments, products and programs are created with a lens on the disabled community throughout design, development, testing and marketing. To learn more about the Ability* Network and our other employee networks, check out: https://purpose.nike.com/employee-networks