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About
The NFL
Alumni
MISSION
STATEMENT:
The NFL
Alumni
is a
charitable
organization
composed
primarily
of
former
professional
players
guided
in their
volunteer
efforts
by the
motto
Caring
for
Kids.
The NFL
Alumni's
secondary
objective
is to
help its
own by
offering
support
to
former
pros
experiencing
financial
or
medical
hardship.
STATEMENT
of
PURPOSE:
THE
NATIONAL
FOOTBALL
LEAGUE
ALUMNI
is a
non-profit
service
organization
of
former
professional
football
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,
the NFL
Alumni
has
national
headquarters
in Fort
Lauderdale,
Fla.,
and a
network
of local
chapters
across
the
country.
GOVERNING
BODY of
the NFL
Alumni
is a
Board of
Directors
which
includes
elected
presidents
of all
chapter
affiliates.
The
chief
executive
officer
is the
Executive
Director.
THE NFL
ALUMNI
is a
dues-paying
membership
association.
Anyone
ever
employed
by a
major-league
football
team
qualifies
as a
Professional
Member.
Others
who did
not play
pro
football,
but who
support
charitable
goals
and
activities
of the
organization,
are
eligible
for
Associate
and
Corporate
Memberships.
IN THEIR
VOLUNTARY
UNDERTAKINGS,
members
of the
NFL
Alumni
are
guided
philosophically
by the
fundamental
ideals
expressed
in their
motto:
"Caring
for
Kids."
ONE
BASIC
OBJECTIVE
of the
NFLAlumni
is to
render
useful
public
service
by
raising
funds
for
worthy
causes,
that,
for the
most
part,
are
youth-oriented
in
nature.
The
primary
source
of
revenue
is an
annual
series
of
celebrity
golf
tournaments
in which
expenses
are
substantially
underwritten
by
participating
corporate
sponsors.
Proceeds
are
directed
to
causes
selected
by host
chapters,
as well
as to
national
outreaches.
The NFL
Alumni
further
seeks to
sustain
its
benevolence
programs
by
engaging
in
licensing,
direct-mail
merchandising
and
other
marketing
activities
compatible
with
organizational
purposes
through
Pro
Legends
Inc., a
wholly-owned
subsidiary
operated
for
profit.
A SECOND
MAJOR
OBJECTIVE
of the
NFL
Alumni
is that
of
fostering
development
of
"youth
through
sports
and
sports
through
youth."
Central
to this
mission
is a
sustained
commitment
to
sponsoring
wholesome
supervised
activities
where
meaningful
social
interaction
can take
place
between
adults
and
youngsters.
The idea
is to
present
prominent
and
successful
athletes
as role
models.
Alumni
youth
work
reaches
a high
point
during
Youth of
America
Week, a
celebration
observed
in
conjunction
with the
opening
of each
new pro
football
season.
AFTER
HELPING
CHILDREN
who lack
the
advantages
they
once
had, the
NFL
Alumni
membership
turns to
a third
prime
objective,
caring
for its
own.
This is
accomplished
through
funding
the NFL
Alumni
Foundation
in
cooperation
with the
National
Football
League.
Commonly
called
the
"Dire
Need
Fund,"
the
foundation
provides
financial
assistance
to
former
pros
experiencing
circumstances
of
hardship.
IN
RESPONDING
to
requests
for
assistance
and in
initiating
projects
of its
own, the
Board of
Directors
seeks to
further
the aims
of the
NFL
Alumni's
founding
fathers
in two
distinct
ways:
FIRST
the
organization
maintains
a keen
awareness
of its
distinctive
origins
as an
advocate
for the
rights
of
former
players.
As a
result,
the
NFLAlumni
encourages
and
promotes
increased
benefits
for
retired
players.
SECOND,
the NFL
Alumni
continues
to
support
those
organizations
and
projects
which
offer
special
promise
of
advancing
the
quality
of life
in
communities
where
Alumni
chapters
are
located.
The
intent
is to
expand
each
chapter's
outreach
into the
community
through
year-round
participation
by
Alumni
members
in
fund-raising
and
personal
service
programs
of other
charitable
organizations. |
