June 1999

As an international organization, we met in June 1999 in New York, N.Y. We rapidly discovered a shared vision of sport, through the process of 75 people coming together from 19 countries. We came away from our founding meeting with renewed commitment to the value of sport in society: the universal ideals embodied in the Olympic Oath, and Charter, and with a vision of the role we need to play to positively impact youth.