The FIBA Foundation published its Basketball For Good 2025 Impact Report as part of International Youth Day, a document that highlights how basketball can transcend competition and become a tool for strengthening communities, creating opportunities and developing new skills among young people and local leaders. Over the past year, initiatives carried out under the programme reached more than 376,000 people across 127 countries on five continents, reflecting an expansion of projects that use sport as a meeting point to address different social challenges.
The report also highlights a network that extends beyond direct beneficiaries. In 2025, more than 830 changemakers received support from the FIBA Foundation, while resources were provided to 608 community projects, and Basketball For Good began to be integrated across the organisation’s major continental competitions. The combination of high-level sporting events and community activities brought these initiatives into new spaces, involving young leaders who used basketball to develop responses to shared challenges within their own communities.
A global network using basketball to drive change
The reach of Basketball For Good is built around initiatives that seek to ensure that the impact of sport extends beyond the court. Its presence in 127 countries and five continents reflects the diversity of contexts in which these projects are implemented, from local communities to settings connected to major international competitions. Within this ecosystem, young people and community leaders play a central role, as they not only participate in activities but can also become agents capable of replicating and extending the tools they acquire to others in their communities.
During 2025, this connection between basketball and social participation took on a particular dimension with the introduction of Basketball For Good activities at all FIBA continental competitions. The work also continued at various youth EuroBaskets and the FIBA U16 Women’s Asia Cup, where youth leaders promoted activities aimed at strengthening community participation. In line with the International Youth Day theme, “Different contexts, common aspirations”, young people from different regions worked on similar challenges and used sport as a tool to create solutions adapted to their own realities.
Community projects expanding impact beyond the court
Among the initiatives reflecting this expansion is Propose A Project, Basketball For Good’s flagship platform, which reached a record 73 projects from 58 countries in 2025. The growth of this community was also evident during World Basketball Day, when 43 Basketball For Good festivals were organised across 33 countries, bringing together more than 5,700 people. The activities brought the spirit of the sport beyond competitions and into local courts and community centres, creating spaces for people of different ages, backgrounds and experiences to come together.
This work is part of a broader vision of the FIBA Foundation, which seeks to use basketball to empower, educate and inspire young people, while strengthening the networks that exist within each community. Supporting changemakers and local projects means that the impact does not depend exclusively on the staging of a sporting event, but can instead develop through initiatives driven from within the communities themselves. In this sense, the programme combines the resources of an international sports organisation with the knowledge and capacity for action of those working directly within their communities.
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