NFL Alumni Foundation is a 501 (c)(3), non-profit organization composed of former
professional football players, owners, coaches, administrators and cheerleaders
who have joined together to support youth charities. Additionally, Associate Members
play an integral role in supporting the charity and educational goals of the NFL
Alumni.
Mission Statement
The NFL Alumni advances its mission of CARING FOR KIDS through hundreds of fund
raising, community-service and social events each year. The organization’s largest
and most high-profile activities include: the Charity Golf Tour, Super Bowl of Golf,
Evening with the Legends, Youth of America Week and Super Bowl Weekend.
Charity Events
Super Bowl of Golf
The principal innovation of the NFL Alumni Foundation Golf Tour is the Super Bowl
of Golf, or SBOG. Each year, all winning teams from the tournament series receive
all-expense paid invitations to the championship playoff, held at a warm-weather
resort the following spring. The SBOG dovetails with the NFL Alumni’s Annual Meeting
and alternates each year between an East and West coast site.
The winning teams from the 2010 Charity Golf Tour earned automatic berths to SBOG
XXXI, which was held April 30, 2011 at PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach
Gardens, Fla. The NFL Alumni Connecticut Chapter was crowned SBOG XXXI Champions
after winning a one hole shootout.
Evening with the Legends
Each year, the NFL Alumni honors its own at the Evening With the Legends Dinner.
Held during the NFL Alumni’s Annual Meeting, the Evening With the Legends Dinner
honors Career Achievement Award winners and inducts new members into the NFL Alumni’s
Order of the Leather Helmet.
Since 1978, the NFL Alumni has recognized 68 Order of the Leather Helmet inductees
for their “substantial contributions to professional football.” Since 1981, the
NFL Alumni has presented Career Achievement Awards to 30 former players for “accomplishments
on and off the field that reflect the higher values promoted by the organization.”
Youth of America Week
Each fall, Youth of America Week turns the spotlight on the types of activities
NFL Alumni members perform with no fanfare all year long. Youth of America week
began more than two decades ago when the NFL Alumni coordinated all of its chapters
to participate simultaneously across the country in youth-related community-service
activities. In 1983, NFL alumnus and Congressman Jack Kemp introduced a resolution
that passed unanimously in both houses of Congress proclaiming the first week of
the NFL preseason as NFL Alumni Youth of America Week. On August 23, then-President
Ronald Reagan signed the proclamation.
Since then, the NFL Alumni has involved hundreds of thousands of children and their
families in Youth of America activities ranging from chaperoning youths to sporting
events and putting on football clinics to hosting picnics and visiting kids in hospitals,
schools and detention centers. In 2009, NFL Alumni members around the country gave
away nearly 30,000 toys while participating in one or more of the organization’s
50 Youth of America Week activities.
Contribute Today
Thank you for your interest in sharing our mission for "Caring For Kids."
Please contact the national office at 954-630-2100 or a chapter near you.
For more information visit our Chapters section.