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About Play the Game Our Goals Board Founders Funding Statutes Partners Programme Committee Contact Share This Page Click to share this page on your favourite social bookmarking service. Twitter Delicious Facebook More Email		THE FOUNDERS OF PLAY THE GAME   Play the Game is founded by the three main sports organisations in Denmark in close cooperation with the International Federation of Journalists.           The National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (DIF) is an umbrella organisation for 56 national sports federations with a combined membership of 1.6 million. DIF is also the national Olympic Committee and is responsible for the Danish participation in the Olympic Games.             Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations (DGI) is an umbrella organisation for 5000 local sports clubs with a combined membership of 1.3 million. Working through sport and other cultural activities, the objective of DGI is to strengthen voluntary organisational activity in order to promote popular education.   DGI appoints one member to the board of Play the Game                 Danish Federation of Company Sports (DFIF) is an umbrella organisation for 8.000 company sports clubs with a combined membership of 340.000. Through the workplace DFIF aims to stimulate interest in sports, exercise and community spirit.   DFIF appoints one member to the board of Play the Game             The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is the world’s largest organisation for journalists and represents around 500.000 members in more than 100 countries.  IFJ promotes action to defend press freedom and social justice. IFJ is opposed to discrimination of all kinds and believes in freedom of political and cultural expression.                                                       IFJ appoints one member to the board of Play the Game       Bookmark this Page  Twitter          Delicous    Facebook    Stumbleupon    More    Technorati    Digg          Reddit         Buzz         Email

Play the Game aims to strengthen the basic ethical values of sport and encourage democracy, transparency and freedom of expression in world sport. Play the Game is an independent institution funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture, the Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations (DGI) and the Danish Federation of Company Sports (DFIF). Our offices are located at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark. Unless otherwise specified, all content on this website remains the copyright of Play the Game. However, reposting of information found on this site is positively encouraged, provided credit for the article is clearly given to Play the Game and the article's author, as well as a link to playthegame.org is included with copied material. For extensive or professional use of material on playthegame.org, or if you are in doubt about copyright restrictions, please contact us at info@playthegame.org to confirm permissions. Opinions expressed on this site are the opnions of the authors themselves, not necessarily of Play the Game. Please see site disclaimer for more information

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