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A Montgomery legal nonprofit will receive a second year of grant funding from the NFL for their work addressing criminal justice reform in Alabama.
Alabama Appleseed is one of nine organizations to receive a portion of $2.5 million in grant funds through the NFL s Inspire Change initiative. A committee of players and team owners voted to renew Appleseed s grant, according to an NFL release.
“This grant builds on an energy for change in Alabama and will allow Alabama Appleseed to do what we do best provide evidence-based research, tell stories from impacted communities, and build coalitions for legislative reforms so desperately needed to create justice and equity, said Carla Crowder, executive director for Alabama Appleseed.
“We launched Inspire Change in 2018 and even before that, sort of after Colin Kaepernick raised these issues, he and along with other players, the league really decided to dive in (because) these are not just issues that NFL players are dealing with, but these are American issues that we should have a role in helping. And so since that time, we’ve really been working in the space.”
The nine renewed grants will go to:
- Alabama Appleseed, an organization that continues to challenge Alabama’s “three-strikes” law, which has resulted in life sentences for hundreds of people convicted of non-homicide crimes and has the potential to impact 26,000 people in Alabama prisons.
NFL notebook: Tim Tebow to sign with Jaguars as a tight end, not a QB
According to reports, the 33-year-old Tebow is returning to the NFL after four years of playing pro baseball and will be reunited with his college coach, Urban Meyer.
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In this 2008 photo, Tim Tebow, left, and Florida Coach Urban Meyer celebrate a win over Georgia. According to reports, the two will reunite in Jacksonville.
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Tim Tebow and Urban Meyer are apparently getting back together, this time in the NFL.
The former Florida star and 2007 Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback is expected to team up with his college coach by signing a one-year contract to play for the Jacksonville Jaguars, the NFL Network reported Monday. The league-owned network said the deal “could be official in the next week or so.”
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As the NFL s biggest spotlight shined on Cleveland last weekend for the 2021 NFL Draft, the league, Cleveland Browns and other partnerships in the area went to work on maximizing the massive platform created by the draft to improve the Northeast Ohio community.
From NFL commissioner Roger Goodell assisting in groundbreaking efforts for a new football field, to Dee Haslam promoting the goals of the Cleveland Browns Foundation s Stay in the Game! Keep Learning, Every Day Network, the draft provided a monumental opportunity for the Cleveland community to create new campaigns and attain progress in previous initiatives, many of which were slowed in the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
There Is No Off-Season for the NFL, Including Its Inspire Change Program
As its teams welcome a new class of dynamic talents into the League during the 2021 NFL Draft in Cleveland, the NFL kicks off a season-long commitment to bridging the Digital Divide.
It has been said that the NFL doesn’t really have an off-season. Nothing illustrates this better than the fact that April’s NFL Draft has become a three-day prime time must-see-TV event.
It is the culmination of a million mock drafts. It is where college football meets pro football. It is where every fan can dream of their team finding the next franchise player, building a fearsome defense, or adding a fast-twitch athletic marvel to its backfield or receiving corps. It is where the League’s next generation of hopeful stars are introduced to the fanbase.