Social Responsibility In Sports
Social Responsibility of NFL and MLB
This week 's homework is to take two organizations and discuss their social responsibility. The two organizations we choose are National Football League and Major League Baseball. The reason we choose these two was a simple one. When we were children who did not want to be a professional baseball or football player? Here are some of organizations that the National Football League and Major League Baseball are involved with. "The Native Vision Program is head up by the NFLPA Regional Directors Department. The hallmark of the Native Vision Program, the Annual Sports and Life Skills Camp, is funded almost entirely by a fundraising event that the NFLPA hosts each year, the Evening with the Stars Gala. Since …show more content…
What is make a wish foundation? Well it is when a child who is either terminally sick, needing a life saving operation or something along those lines. The child are registered by either child parents or child care givers. The whole question is if you had one wish what would it be? Children being children want to meet their sports heroes. The children are given an opportunity to meet sports heroes or attend a game or just be part of their favorite team.
"The football and community are the twin pillars of the NFL. Whether nationally at the league level, locally at the team level, or individually through the volunteerism and philanthropy of owners, players, coaches, and club personnel, there exists a powerful NFL-wide commitment to giving back. This commitment is year-round-there is no offseason to the NFL 's multi-tiered, ongoing work to strengthen America 's communities" (NFL. …show more content…
Esperanza International has become one of the leading microfinance service organizations in the Dominican Republic and the largest lender to the poorest of the poor through its Banks of Hope program" (Players Trust, 2013).
Welcome Back Veterans: As part of Major League Baseball national fundraising and awareness initiatives for Welcome Back Veterans, players, and coaches wore Stars and Stripes caps on Memorial Day and Independence Day weekends. Net proceeds received from the sale of the caps helped Welcome Back Veterans, an MLB Charities initiative in partnership with the McCormick Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation that addresses the wishes of returning American veterans and his or her relatives (Welcome Back Veterans. Jan 2013).
The MLB and NFL are excellent organizations, and they both contribute greatly to the social responsibility to which we hold them to with such a high regard. In our eyes neither one of them contributes more than the other. Either way these organizations are doing what is best for their part of a socially responsible
This week 's homework is to take two organizations and discuss their social responsibility. The two organizations we choose are National Football League and Major League Baseball. The reason we choose these two was a simple one. When we were children who did not want to be a professional baseball or football player? Here are some of organizations that the National Football League and Major League Baseball are involved with. "The Native Vision Program is head up by the NFLPA Regional Directors Department. The hallmark of the Native Vision Program, the Annual Sports and Life Skills Camp, is funded almost entirely by a fundraising event that the NFLPA hosts each year, the Evening with the Stars Gala. Since …show more content…
What is make a wish foundation? Well it is when a child who is either terminally sick, needing a life saving operation or something along those lines. The child are registered by either child parents or child care givers. The whole question is if you had one wish what would it be? Children being children want to meet their sports heroes. The children are given an opportunity to meet sports heroes or attend a game or just be part of their favorite team.
"The football and community are the twin pillars of the NFL. Whether nationally at the league level, locally at the team level, or individually through the volunteerism and philanthropy of owners, players, coaches, and club personnel, there exists a powerful NFL-wide commitment to giving back. This commitment is year-round-there is no offseason to the NFL 's multi-tiered, ongoing work to strengthen America 's communities" (NFL. …show more content…
Esperanza International has become one of the leading microfinance service organizations in the Dominican Republic and the largest lender to the poorest of the poor through its Banks of Hope program" (Players Trust, 2013).
Welcome Back Veterans: As part of Major League Baseball national fundraising and awareness initiatives for Welcome Back Veterans, players, and coaches wore Stars and Stripes caps on Memorial Day and Independence Day weekends. Net proceeds received from the sale of the caps helped Welcome Back Veterans, an MLB Charities initiative in partnership with the McCormick Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation that addresses the wishes of returning American veterans and his or her relatives (Welcome Back Veterans. Jan 2013).
The MLB and NFL are excellent organizations, and they both contribute greatly to the social responsibility to which we hold them to with such a high regard. In our eyes neither one of them contributes more than the other. Either way these organizations are doing what is best for their part of a socially responsible