About Playing for Keeps



Playing for Keeps is an initiative building upon the strengths of:

• past community consultations, summits and gatherings
• networks of people and organizations
• opportunities surrounding the Games in our communities

Three design workshops held in the spring of 2011 will inform a long-term strategy leveraging the Games for continued engagement in developing sustainable social capital legacies.

Partner Spotlight

The Sport Legacies Research Collaborative (SLRC) was established by the Faculty of Physical Education and Health (FPEH) at the University of Toronto in 2010 with an expressed mandate for empirically and critically analyzing whether or not major sports events like the Pan American Games, Commonwealth Games, Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup and others, create enduring physical activity, sport, health and social integration impacts in the communities in which they are staged. The SLRC aims to, through joint local, national and international  research, empirically document and evaluate the legacies of major games and sports events on sports participation, physical cultures, social life and the built environment in host regions