This past week I spent some time in Los Angeles with the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, working alongside their Parks & Recreation partners who deliver baseball to nearly 20,000 kids across LA County. Seeing that work up close was a powerful reminder of why Focus On The Field exists in the first place.
LADF isn’t just the official charity of the Dodgers - they’re one of the most serious, thoughtful operators in youth development anywhere. Through Dodgers Dreamfields alone, they’ve invested over $21 million into 67 safe, high-quality baseball and softball fields in communities that have historically been overlooked. Fields matter. They’re where kids gather, where trust is built, and where opportunity starts to feel real.
Their cornerstone program, Dodgers RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities), is where our missions intersect most clearly. RBI isn’t just about baseball—it’s about access.
Access to sports, health resources, education, and to consistent adults who show up. That kind of work is complex and operationally demanding, and it only works when the people on the ground can focus on the kids, not the paperwork.
That’s where we come in.
The LADF trusts us, in partnership with our friends at LeagueApps, to build the infrastructure behind the scenes - the registration, the compliance, the payments, the communications - so the great parks and rec directors across Los Angeles can do their job, and programs like RBI can scale without losing their soul.
When we do our job right, coaches coach, organizers organize, and kids play. It's great to see it come together.
Huge credit to the people actually doing the work every day - especially Jen Santos and Elvis Carrillo at LADF. Their leadership and care are obvious the moment you step into the room.
This is what it looks like when sport is used the right way. And we’re proud to be a small part of it.
