With stronger unions for เล่นที่สล็อตยูฟ่าเว็บตรงเพื่อชัยชนะขนาดใหญ่ professional team sports and vastly increased money and media coverage, more athletes at the end of the twentieth century had access to relatively high incomes. Many used some of it to give back to their communities. Former football star Jim Brown founded the Amer-I-Can Program, a non-profit that helps people reach their human and academic potential; baseball legend Joe DiMaggio started the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Florida; and tennis superstar Arthur Ashe created the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the AIDS Research. Many current athletes have set up their own charitable foundations. Some of them have had mixed results. Yankees SS Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation, for example, raised $1.8 million in 2004, but, according to the New York Times, much of that came directly from Jeter himself. Other foundations, such as the Best of the Batch Foundation headed by NFL great Charlie Batchelor, have been more successful at leveraging their assets for greater impact.
Athletes and Charitable Works – A Closer Look
Running a nonprofit is a full-time job, and many athletes are at the peak of their careers when they start them. They may not have the experience or time to properly oversee them. As a result, many athletes’ charities do more harm than good – fundraisers in which only a small percentage of the money collected goes to charity, opportunists whose words don’t match their actions and organizations that have a hard time meeting the standards required by charity watchdog groups.