About All Stars Helping Kids
These people got together with NASDAQ and athletes who want to raise funds or donate to children's causes:
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Founded in 1989 by NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott, the mission of All Stars Helping Kids is to promote a safe, healthy and rigorous learning environment for disadvantaged children. All Stars Helping Kids achieves its mission by pooling the resources of athletes, corporations and individuals to provide financial and technical assistance to high-quality academic and physical enrichment programs working with disadvantaged children.
2007...bring together corporate leaders and athletes to discuss pooling their resources to improve the learning environment for children in low-income communities. All Stars also will deliver its first National Community Fund grants with donations of $100,000 to the Knowledge Is Power Program and Sports4Kids.Sports Philanthropy Project: Resource Details
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Emmitt Smith raises $559K for Shelton School
Along with his wife, Emmit and a host of other athletes and private donors auctioned off trip destnation packages and even "a golf game with Emmitt" for sometimes as high as 12 or 30 thousand dollars to bring the largest total to this school for challenged kids.
May 2008-The Dallas Morning News reports that "Pat and Emmitt Smith served as the honorary chairs of the April 12 Shelton School Stampede Benefit Auction, which raised the largest amount of funding in the auction’s 19-year history, $559,430."
The 32-year old Shelton School is the largest private school in the world for students with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADHD, speech, and language disorders.
The Raiser's Razor: Emmitt Smith raises $559K for Shelton School