The Green Bay Packers this summer awarded 20 youth football programs across Wisconsin a Packers Youth Football Matching Grant. The $1,000 grants will support equipment purchases, new uniforms and football facility improvements.<\/p>\n
All youth football programs in Wisconsin \u2013 both flag and tackle \u2013 were eligible to apply. To secure the matching grant, each program was required to raise $1,000 of its own funds.<\/p>\n
The programs selected include:<\/p>\n
Baraboo Youth Football, Baraboo
\nBeaver Dam Youth Football, Beaver Dam
\nChippewa Valley Youth Football, Chippewa Falls
\nDeForest Area Youth Football, Windsor
\nElkhorn Youth Football, Elkhorn
\nFRC Youth Football, Green Bay
\nLakeland Youth Football, Tomahawk
\nMad Town Elite Youth Football, Madison
\nMelrose-Mindoro Junior High Football, Melrose
\nNeenah Rockets Junior High Football, Neenah
\nNicolet Jr. Knights Football, Glendale
\nOak Creek Youth Football, Oak Creek
\nPortage Youth Football, Portage
\nProspect University Sports Inc., Milwaukee
\nSomerset Youth Football, Somerset
\nSouthside Raiders Football and Cheerleading Inc., Madison
\nSparta Youth Football, Sparta
\nStephenson Sharks Youth Football, Stephenson
\nValley Christian Warriors Youth Football, Oshkosh
\nWittenberg-Birnamwood Area Youth Football, Wittenberg<\/p>\n
The Packers Youth Football Matching Grant program is part of Green Bay Packers Give Back, the organization’s all-encompassing community outreach initiative. Packers Give Back includes appearances by players, alumni, coaches and staff, monetary and in-kind donations, community events, Make-A-Wish visits, football outreach and much more. These efforts contribute to an annual charity impact in excess of $13 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers this summer awarded 20 youth football programs across Wisconsin a Packers Youth Football Matching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[12102,7,41,345,2514,2513,6383,6476,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-323737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-community-cp","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-news-community","15":"tag-news-press-releases","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115105172426266769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}