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Causes: Alumni Associations, Education
Mission: The nfl alumni's mission is to serve, assist and inform our members to enrich their post-nfl lives. We care for kids and care for our own, enabling our members to connect with each other and contribute to the community through charitable programs. The national football league alumni is a non-profit service organization of retired nfl players who work voluntarily on behalf of youth and charity. It was formed as an outgrowth of philanthropic and civic-minded impulses of men who performed at the highest level of the nation's most popular spectator sport and used that experience as a springboard to success in later life. Founded in 1967 principally to deal with player welfare issues, the nfl alumni was reorganized in 1977 as a tax-exempt charitable and educational organization, an irs approved 501(c)(3) public charity with a network of local chapters across the country. In 2010, the nfl alumni added a 501(c)(5) non-profit status and made an emphasis to "care for our own. " this included the
Programs: Caring for kids grants: grants to qualified 501(c)(3) organizations whose primary mission involves providing services that benefit youth groups with special needs.