7/25/2008

NFL Charity Work: how the NFL football league helps the community and gives back.

Yes my friends: the NFL pro football league not only provides us with healthy and over the top entertainment but also gives back to the community.

The NFL has been collaborating with several organizations that deliver education and youth services, also designates funds to assist the foundations of current and former NFL players; not to mention that they NFL charities award sports-related medical research grants that advance the body of knowledge of sports medicine for professional and recreational athletes.

They also recognize the hard work of people related to the NFL field. The NFL Charities was designed to support targeted initiatives on a national level, meaning that they will not consider individual requests, only organized associations. Also, the NFL is not able to donate items for auctions, school events and other charitable functions due to an overwhelming number of requests.

They have many different types of causes: Youth, Community Programs, Diversity, Health and Volunteer Programs. The NFL is keeping a wide variety of causes and perhaps it could be the reason why their work is useful. Working to help charities is part of the professional sports duties: giving back to the community provides certain happiness that cannot be compared to anything and it also helps NFL fans to have better opportunities in life. For example, the NFL Disaster Relief Fund made an awesome job providing grants to those who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks, as well as helping the fire, police and rescue workers who responded to the disaster.

Another very impressive NFL charity are the Annual Medical Research Grants that target sports injury prevention, injury treatment, and other related research that affects the health and performance of athletes and it does include research and enhancing scientific knowledge that will benefit all those involved in competitive sports and recreational athletic activities.. This specific NFL funding is available for non-profit educational and research institutions only.

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