Founded in 2005, Pitch In For Baseball & Softball (PIFBS) helps give the gift of play and contributes to positive youth development by providing equipment to children around the world who need it. Over the past 15+ years, PIFBS has expanded programming and partners to help more than 1.6 Million boys and girls play ball in every state in the U.S. and more than 117 countries internationally. PIFBS has averages 1,200 project each year, removing equipment as a barrier to play for nearly 200,000 kids play ball annually. Baseball and softball can be a powerful vehicle for youth development and school engagement, offering a constructive alternative for the key out-of-school hours that helps b... read more Founded in 2005, Pitch In For Baseball & Softball (PIFBS) helps give the gift of play and contributes to positive youth development by providing equipment to children around the world who need it. Over the past 15+ years, PIFBS has expanded programming and partners to help more than 1.6 Million boys and girls play ball in every state in the U.S. and more than 117 countries internationally. PIFBS has averages 1,200 project each year, removing equipment as a barrier to play for nearly 200,000 kids play ball annually. Baseball and softball can be a powerful vehicle for youth development and school engagement, offering a constructive alternative for the key out-of-school hours that helps build self-confidence and teach important life lessons like teamwork, respect, commitment, and winning and losing. In addition to its pure play and development elements, baseball and softball also bring communities together by unifying people from different backgrounds, religions, ethnic groups, and socioeconomics as well as offering parents a way to connect with their kids.
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