Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects 1 in 50 Canadian youth. While the power of community sport is transformative, many autistic children and youth face persistent financial, environmental, and systemic barriers to participation. To build permanent, inclusive sport pathways, the Ottawa Sport Council and OSEG Foundation are partnering through the Sport for All Ottawa Fund to launch the All In for Autism in Sport Grant on September 7th, 2026. [...]

Join Run Ottawa and Ottawa Sport Council for a Virtual Information Session & Q&A Thursday, September 10th. The Ottawa Sport Council is excited to share a vital funding opportunity for local sport organizations! Run Ottawa has launched the Run Ottawa Community Sport Fund, providing financial support to local, non-profit community sport organizations to help purchase essential equipment that enhances program delivery, safety, participant experience, and accessibility.

Led by Drs. Milena Parent and Mayur Joshi and research team from the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management and the University of Guelph Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, this initiative directly addresses the operational realities facing community non-profit sport organizations (NPSOs)[...]

More than six years in the making, the big show is almost here as the nation’s capital gets set to host the Ottawa 2026 IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships from Sept. 9-19 – an event that’s already made an enormous impact on the city before it even tips off. “It’s a huge opportunity. We hope […]

The Ottawa Sport Council, in partnership with Ottawa Public Health, is launching an innovative project called Ottawa Quality Sport Pilot Initiative to support coaching standards across community sport. Through this project, two selected community sport organizations receive five (5) Quality Sport Leader – Level 1 (QSL1) certification and each organization will receive a 1-year subscription to PLAYBuilder by Sport for Life [...]