Sport + Data = Good. For All.
Sport connects people. Data proves what works. Together, they do good.
Statloba For Good is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Eugene, Oregon. We pair the connecting power of sport with a data- and AI-driven approach to community health and development, to reach further, serve better, and show exactly what changed.
Our Mission
We help young people and the organizations that serve them thrive, through sport, public health, and digital literacy: funding and building the programs, tools, and skills that let local leaders reach more kids, and showing every donor exactly where their money goes.
Data + Sport + Health = Good.
Why it's different
Two things most nonprofits avoid. First, we fund specific humans, not abstractions: every project broken down to the line item you can choose to fund. Second, we show every dollar, raised and spent, in real time, and we report honestly, including what didn't work. Trust isn't a value we claim; it's the product.
Our Vision
A world where every young person, regardless of geography, background, or access, can thrive through the power of sport, community, and inclusive technology.
We picture communities where sport is more than play: a path to confidence, leadership, and belonging. Where data and AI are forces for equity, not exclusion. And where the local organizations already doing this work, often women-led, often under-resourced, have the strategies, systems, and digital tools to scale their impact and sustain real change. We're building that future one partnership, one program, and one young leader at a time.
Core Pillars
The three foundations under every program.
Sport for Good
We use sport to build confidence, leadership, and belonging, creating safe, inclusive spaces where young people grow not just as athletes, but as leaders in their own communities.
Digital Equity
We close the digital divide by making tech, data, and AI training accessible, especially in under-resourced and rural communities, so no one is left behind as the tools of the future arrive.
Community-Led Public Health
We co-create programs with the communities we serve: health education, access to services, inclusive engagement. From free play days to health fairs, we bring people together to learn, connect, and thrive.
Focus Areas
All through the lens of data & sport for good.
Community Health Initiatives
Co-creating health programs with communities, from free health fairs to wellness workshops, so access, education, and inclusion reach the people who need them.
Positive Youth Development
Building confident, capable young leaders through sport-based programming, mentorship, and real leadership opportunities.
Sustainable Communities & Organizations
Giving mission-aligned organizations the strategies, systems, and digital tools to scale and sustain their impact.
Women & Girls in Sports
Creating equitable access to sport and leadership for women and girls, and the confidence and belonging that come with it.
Our Values
Eight lines we don't break.
Fund the human.
We don't ask you to give to a cause. We ask you to fund a girl's bus fare to the clinic, a coach's stipend, a year of one child's schooling. Every project on this site is broken down to the line item, so your gift is tied to a specific person and a specific outcome. If we can't tell you who it helps and how, we don't ask for it.
Show every dollar.
Full financial transparency is our default, not a feature. Every project shows what's been raised and what's been spent, live. Donate, and you get the dashboard: the fundraising data, the spend data, and the reports. We'd rather show you the ledger than tell you to trust us.
Amplify the local leader.
The people running our partner projects know their communities far better than we ever could. So on their pages, they speak: their photo, their words, their organization, their links. We build the platform, run the clinic, and raise the funds behind them. They stay the protagonists. We stay the support.
Protect the vulnerable.
Most of the young people we serve are minors. Their safety comes before every story and every photo. We don't publish a child's image or details without a recorded release, and we never tell a story in a way that endangers or diminishes them. Safeguarding isn't a policy page; it's a precondition for everything we do.
Tell the truth, including what failed.
Our reports include the misses, not just the wins. If a program under-delivered, or a plan changed, you'll read it. Donors are trusted with the whole picture, because that honesty is exactly what earns the next gift, and makes the next program better.
Build it to be handed over.
Whatever we build for a partner, a platform, a fundraising system, a clinic curriculum, is documented and transferable. The goal is that their team can run it without us. We measure success by what keeps working after we leave, not by how long they need us.
Measure what matters.
We collect real outcome data, pre- and post-surveys, honest evaluation, because that's how you prove impact and improve it. We don't decorate the site with vanity numbers. A number is only worth showing if it's true and it means something.
Keep giving joyful.
Sport is joy, and giving should feel like it. Donating here should feel like joining a movement and backing a person you believe in, not filing a compliance form. No guilt, no fake urgency, no dark patterns. Just a clear ask and a real result you get to follow.
These aren't wall decoration. Wherever this site makes a claim, one of these values is the reason it's true.
Our Story
Two students, one football, two decades.
Desh and Ian's friendship began in 2008 at Hendrix College in Arkansas: two students from different parts of the world, connected by a shared love of football and a determination to use their talents for something that matters.
Over the years, that bond became a shared mission: to support people, communities, and organizations using sport as a force for good. Their paths ran parallel, Desh into technology, systems, and inclusive digital solutions; Ian into sport, development, and global youth engagement. Two decades of lived experience, cross-continental collaboration, and grassroots learning led them to the same conviction: sport, combined with data, leadership, and empathy, is one of the most powerful tools for social change there is.
That belief became Statloba For Good: a platform where their complementary strengths come together to help communities thrive and help like-minded organizations grow their impact. Today, SFG works with sports clubs, youth, coaches, educators, nonprofits, and networks around the world, bringing free play, health access, digital inclusion, and leadership development into one movement.
Our Team
Bound by sport. Driven by purpose. United to make a difference.
Desh Deepak
Co-Founder | Secretary
Data & AI · Systems Thinking · Digital Equity · Social Entrepreneurship
Desh is a data scientist, systems thinker, and social entrepreneur with over a decade of work at the intersection of education, technology, and social impact. He has worked in academic institutions, led advanced programming and AI initiatives, and currently serves as CEO of Gott Data and Munin, helping organizations use data, machine learning, and digital tools for real-world change.
His path through academia and industry showed him both the promise and the risk of new technology. As AI and data systems grow more powerful, so do the inequalities they can reinforce, especially in rural areas and developing countries where access, literacy, and opportunity are limited. That understanding drives the work he leads at SFG: programs that bridge the digital divide, promote equity, and put the tools of the future in everyone's hands, not just the privileged few.
Ian Evans
Co-Founder | President
Sport for Good · Global Development · Youth Leadership · Sports Diplomacy
Ian is a global sports development leader and lifelong advocate for football as a way to build connection, confidence, and community. His path runs from playing and coaching to international sports diplomacy.
Ian captained the 2006 CIAC LL State Champion Simsbury High School (CT) and the Hendrix College (AR) soccer teams (2008–2011), then served as Hendrix assistant men's and women's soccer coach (2012–2014). In 2014 he signed for Friska Viljor FC in Sweden, playing two seasons and winning promotion to Division 2 Norrland in 2015, while coaching Swedish youth from elementary to high-school age. He earned his MA in International Development from American University (DC) in 2018 and has since worked as an implementing partner for a sports diplomacy exchange program, working with over 1,000 international youth athletes, coaches, and administrators. In 2024 Ian founded the Evans Soccer Academy (ESA), providing affordable soccer play and coaching in Connecticut, Maine, and Oregon. He is pursuing an MBA in Sports Business at the University of Oregon (expected June 2027).
Impact
Our impact is rooted in years of professional and lived experience, global collaboration, and mission-driven work. Rather than post a scoreboard, we show it where it's real: on each project page, where you can see what's been raised, what's been spent, and what it changed, and in the reports our donors receive. When verified aggregate figures exist, they'll appear here. Until then, no invented numbers.
Join the movement.
Whether you donate, volunteer, or partner with us, you become part of a community building lasting change through sport, data, and health. Fund a project, back a local leader, or bring your skills.