Peyton Manning Donates $580k To Children's Organisations

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Last month, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning gave $500,000 to the Pat Summitt Foundation for the fight against Alzheimer's Disease.

 

Today, Manning's PeyBack Foundation is donating $581,000 that will be distributed to more than 90 youth-based community organizations in Colorado, Indiana, Tennessee and Louisiana for 2013.

 

Add it up and Manning has donated more than $1.081 million in the past two months.

 

"The mission and work of the PeyBack Foundation is something we are very passionate about," Manning said in a statement.

 

"We are pleased to add Colorado to our giving cycle and are proud of the positive impact that so many youth-based organizations in this state, as well as in Indiana, Tennessee and Louisiana, have on our communities."

 

In Colorado, 37 youth-related charities will receive a total of $288,750 in grants. Twelve organizations in Indiana will receive $52,500 while 15 Louisiana organizations will receive $78,750 and 25 Tennessee organizations will receive $161,000.

 

The PeyBack Foundation, a public non-profit corporation, was established by Manning in 1999 to promote the future success of disadvantaged youth by assisting programs that provide leadership growth and opportunities for children at risk. The PeyBack Foundation has donated more than $6.5 million through its grants and programs since its inception.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Peyton's a great dude. :clap:

 

Didn't want to make a whole new thread, but I just heard of MJD's donation, so I'll just post the info in here. Not nearly close to what Peyton donated, but then again Peyton makes considerably more. Regardless, great to see players continue to "pay it forward" if you will:

 

Maurice Jones-Drew donates $50k to Wolfson Children's Hospital

 

Twelve-year-old Jared Blow waited anxiously for Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew to come up the elevator to the third floor of Wolfson Children’s Hospital.

 

He had dressed for the occasion in bright green socks that matched the handles on his IV cart. Jared is an avid fan of the Jaguars and was delighted that he would get to meet the football player.

 

“I like the Jags. You’ve got to back up your home team,” he said.

 

Jared has Hodgkin’s lymphoma — “which is a flare up of the lymph nodes up here,” he went on, pointing to his upper body

 

“It’s kind of hard to go through all of this, but the nurses and doctors here make it a little better.“

 

As Jones-Drew came off the elevator he went straight to the children, individually greeting each one. Jared was grinning from ear to ear, as hospital staff moved the children in to see better.

 

Jared was among a small group of children and their parents who would celebrate the donation of $50,000 from the Maurice Jones-Drew Foundation to the hospital. Jones-Drew is known for sneaking into the hospital to spend time with children like Jared without attention from the media. But this time, hospital officials waited to give Jones-Drew and his mother, Andrea Jones-Drew, a Dream Coat — a lab coat that the hospital gives to large donors.

 

Marissa Ierna, a childhood cancer patient herself and DreamCoat donor, handed Jones-Drew and his mother their lab coats. At 18, Ierna has become a spokeswoman for herself and other children like Jared.

 

Michael Aubin, Wolfson Children’s Hospital president, said the money would be used to create two rooms with a space biosphere theme on the sixth floor reflecting Jones-Drew’s earlier goal of being an astronaut. Each floor of the hospital has its own theme moving from the third floor’s grassland up into the atmosphere.

 

“It’s really nice for him to do this for all the sick people here,” said 9-year-old Brett Summers, a pneumonia patient who had also waited patiently to see the football player. “My brother is going to be so jealous. I saw the check and it’s a lot!”

 

Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/health-and-fitness/2013-05-16/story/money-maurice-jones-drew-will-pay-room-design-wolfson#ixzz2Tmw0za1P