Pickleball Positive Communities
is a Smash Hit!
We are bringing Pickleball Positive to underserved communities
“Thank you, Pickleball Positive Communities! This is a sport our kids really need. Everyone can get involved and be successful. You don’t have to be the top athlete—pickleball keeps our kids moving, and that’s what we need.” - Barbara Palmer, PE/Health Teacher at MS 302.
Watch our overview video:
Our Impact
Our Pickleball Positive approach promotes holistic wellness - social, emotional, mental, and physical. The integration of the A to Z Behaviors for Success builds confidence, connection, and essential life skills.
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Our surveys show that students in our program are:
Building confidence, even becoming "super confident" in trying new things.
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Becoming more mindful of how positive behaviors shape both their game and their daily lives.
Forming deeper relationships with their peers.
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Calling our program ‘super fun’.
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Quickly elevating their pickleball skills.
How students describe our program:
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“It’s amazing to see these students embrace the game so quickly. More importantly, they’re gaining confidence, having fun, building relationships, and developing mindfulness around behaviors that will benefit them in their future endeavors.” - Betty Ng, PPC President.
Our Progress and What’s Next
Since our founding in 2024, Pickleball Positive Communities has delivered school-based,
after-school, camp, and special event programs serving low-income communities
across New York City—including the South Bronx and Lower East Side—as well as in Westchester.
Our work reflects a broader vision: to expand our programs across New York and eventually nationwide, ensuring that more communities can access the transformative power of
pickleball and the essential life skills it builds.
But we can't do it alone...
Why You Matter?
We’re looking for volunteers, partners, and supporters to help us expand our reach and bring this opportunity to even more communities.
Join us in making a difference—one community, one game, one connection, one student at a time.
Sponsor Us!
PARTNERS
Working With the Best!
Established in Germany in 1952, JOOLA is a premier sports brand that dominated the professional table tennis scene for decades before successfully expanding into pickleball in 2022 by partnering with world number one Ben Johns.
PS126 envisions their school as a community where kindness and caring are sustained, nourished and benefited by a diversity of learners. Their goal is to foster a nurturing environment that acknowledges, encourages, and expects their students to be rigorously, as well as joyfully involved in reading, writing, mathematics, science, technology, and history on a daily basis with the constant integration of technology.
Immigrant Social Services (ISS) was founded in 1972 to improve the conditions of immigrants and other under-resourced persons living in Manhattan’s Lower East Side/Chinatown. Since that time, ISS has diligently and proudly served multiple generations of immigrants in the neighborhood.
Thomas Family Foundation
Mark Pickleball is a family-owned brand that aims to empower competitors and communities with great gear.
The mission of the Amani Public Charter School is to provide Mount Vernon, New York students in kindergarten through 8th grade with the academic skills necessary to succeed in competitive high school programs, college and the career of their choice.
Apex for Youth empowers Asian American youth from low-income and immigrant backgrounds to unlock their potential today and a world of possibility tomorrow.
Chung Pak, LDC are two nonprofit organizations that provide senior affordable housing, retail, and community spaces in Downtown Manhattan.
Since 2006, the Westchester Parks Foundation has operated Camp Morty, a free sleepaway camp that provides a traditional summer camp experience to underserved youth in Westchester County, including those in foster care, homeless shelters, or other public assistance programs​.
MS 302 in the Bronx offers quality middle school education with academics, athletics, enrichment programs, and strong family engagement.
The first Café Joyeux restaurant was born in 2017 in France, employing and training people with mental and cognitive disabilities. Today there are over 25 Café Joyeux in Europe, and our first American Café Joyeux opened in New York at the beginning of 2024.
Planet X is a full service lifestyle, media, and entertainment production and marketing agency based in Brooklyn, NY.
Get in Touch
(646) 881-4358‬
180 Maspeth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
