Redskins Players List of Community Service is Long & Impressive

by Kevin Ewoldt on Dec 23, 2011 12:00 PM EST in Redskins News

Community service is something we all should be doing but rarely make time to. Certainly, coaches and fans value players that give back to the community, and the Redskins organization has always been a strong franchise in this department (even with the losing seasons). With it being the holiday season, here's a list of all the Redskins players and all the charity work/foundations they work with. Special thanks to Matt Terl in helping fill in some of the holes with this list.

2011 Christmas Season:

Don's Wood Fire Pizza - Pizza place served free food and drinks to raise money for Africa Missions. To help serve food was Lorenzo Alexander, Logan Paulsen, Graham Gano, Kedric Golston, Rocky McIntosh, and Roy Helu.

Darrell Green's annual "Christmas with the Redskins." - At this particular event, the players and other various members of the organization are given a name and picture of their appointed child, and they go out and buy that child shoes, clothes, and a unique gift. Whole team.

Coat Drive - The Redskins Charitable Foundation and Redskins players Oshiomogho Atogwe, David Anderson, Terrence Austin, Brandon Banks, DeJon Gomes, Sean Locklear, Darrion Scott, Donte' Stallworth, Josh Wilson, Dough Worthington, Logan Paulsen and Travon Bellamy went to the Macy's in downtown D.C. to hand out winter clothes to 300 underserved children from the greater metro area.

"Skins Santa Shoppe" at FedExField - The event is held in the locker room, and 1,100 area school children get to walk through with their favorite Redskins player and pick out their favorite toy for the holidays. The toys are supplied by the Redskins in conjunction with the U.S. Marine Corps and the Touchdown for Tots toy drive. Redskins players include Oshiomogho Atogwe, Brandon Banks, Travon Bellamy, Chris Chester, Reed Doughty, Chris Neild, Cole Pemberton, Markus White, Erik Cook, Nick Sundberg, Ryan Kerrigan, Darrel Young, Rob Jackson.

Charities ongoing through the season:

Name	Foundation
Anthony Armstrong	Ride to Provide
Lorenzo Alexander	ACES Foundation Ride to Provide Brian Orakpo Youth Camp
O.J. Atogwe	Oshiomogho Atogwe I Am Foundation at the Institute for Science and Health.
Jammal Brown	Volunteers of America Chesapeake's Loudoun Homeless Services Center (handing out meals)
Stephen Bowen	Hoops for Troops
Adam Carriker	Empowering Families (Asthma)
Barry Cofield	Barry and Kendra Cofield Youth Foundation
Chris Cooley	Rally for the Cure Chris Cooley Education Fund Chris Cooley Football Camp
Reed Doughty	Kidney Foundation
London Fletcher	London's Bridge Harvest Feast
Keyaron Fox	Keyaron Fox Foundation
Kedric Gholston	Ride to Provide Golston Foundation
DeAngelo Hall	DeAngelo Hall Foundation DeAngelo Hall Youth Football Camp
LaRon Landry	LaRon Landry Leadership for Life Foundation (turkey giveaway) Safe in the Streetz
Rocky McIntosh	Ride to Provide Redskins Charitable Foundation Walter Reed Medical Center Harvest Feast
Brian Orakpo	Leukemia Golf Classic Brian Orakpo Youth Camp
Santana Moss	Santana Moss Foundation
Ryan Torain	Volunteers of America Chesapeake's Loudoun Homeless Services Center (handing out meals)
Redskins/ Dan Snyder	Redskins Charitable Foundation Sean Taylor Memorial Fund Redskins Health & Wellness Play 60 (keeping kids active 60 minutes a day) Harvest Feast Larry King Heart Foundation Make-A-Wish Foundation Marines Toys for Tots Redskins Charitable Foundation $25,000 Scholarship Fund WOW, Redskins Host Charity Shopping Spree Constructed: - Snyder Family Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center at Children’s Hospital - Daniel M. Snyder and Family Communication Center at the Center for Missing and Exploited Children

HAIL TO THE REDSKINS.

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Oshiomogho Atogwe I Am Foundation at the Institute for Science and Health.

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by Parks Smith on Dec 23, 2011 12:06 PM EST reply actions

He's dreamy!

Seriously though, It’s nice to have a post looking at the Redskins giving back to the community.

@Callahan_9 on the twitter machine.

by Diesel44 on Dec 23, 2011 12:09 PM EST up reply actions

yea, it's an amazing name for a foundation. Reminds me of this....

"You know those balls that they put on car antennas so you can find them in the parking lot? Those should be on every car!" - Homer Simpson
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by Kevin Ewoldt on Dec 23, 2011 2:04 PM EST up reply actions

What is this? A school for ants?!

How are they supposed to learn how to read if they can’t even fit inside the building?!

by BurgundyEpidermis on Dec 23, 2011 4:57 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

lol right

by Freddyn on Dec 23, 2011 5:14 PM EST up reply actions

This is a really good post. Rec'd

But you know what else is long and impressive?

I see it as more cushion for the pushin'

by iH8dallas on Dec 23, 2011 12:22 PM EST reply actions

your list of male suitors

The Beat Box aka skins secondary.

by Al_CaPWNED on Dec 23, 2011 12:35 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Good one

I see it as more cushion for the pushin'

by iH8dallas on Dec 23, 2011 12:36 PM EST up reply actions

your photo album from the Fanny Pack Convention in Tulsa?

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by Parks Smith on Dec 23, 2011 12:44 PM EST up reply actions

Not bad

I see it as more cushion for the pushin'

by iH8dallas on Dec 23, 2011 12:53 PM EST up reply actions

Jabar Gaffney?

Founder: The Burgundy Warpath
http://theburgundywarpath.com

by Ronnie Adkins on Dec 23, 2011 1:37 PM EST up reply actions

Nice

I see it as more cushion for the pushin'

by iH8dallas on Dec 23, 2011 1:39 PM EST up reply actions

In the spirit of community, happy Festivous everyone!

by mbedner on Dec 23, 2011 1:36 PM EST reply actions

First, the airing of grievances:

Formerly KS and CS

by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Dec 23, 2011 1:36 PM EST up reply actions

I'm waiting for feats of strength.

I see it as more cushion for the pushin'

by iH8dallas on Dec 23, 2011 1:40 PM EST up reply actions

First Grievance:

Where the hell is the h8 column for this week?!

Formerly KS and CS

by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Dec 23, 2011 1:41 PM EST up reply actions

You know we lose everytime I write one?

We won when you picked it up.

Will you make it a Festivus miracle?

I see it as more cushion for the pushin'

by iH8dallas on Dec 23, 2011 1:42 PM EST up reply actions

Somehow

I doubt that your column is controlling the outcome of the game. I could be wrong here. Perhaps if you were related to Tim Tebow in some way, but otherwise, no.

Formerly KS and CS

by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Dec 23, 2011 1:47 PM EST up reply actions

It's not a fluke.

I see it as more cushion for the pushin'

by iH8dallas on Dec 23, 2011 1:52 PM EST up reply actions

What other powers do you have?

How can we take advantage of your situation? We’ll have to come up with a costume and a secret identity.

Formerly KS and CS

by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Dec 23, 2011 1:56 PM EST up reply actions

Don't forget, he'll need a hate signal too

Kind of like a bat signal, only giving the middle finger.

by willster on Dec 23, 2011 1:59 PM EST up reply actions

Maybe if you did it & had us losing......

I’m sure that it would be physically impossible for you to write it but maybe that is the answer

by ENsDad27 on Dec 23, 2011 5:17 PM EST up reply actions

I got a lot of problems with you people and you're gonna hear about um...

You, ih8. Parks tells me your predictions stinks! You couldn’t smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe…I lost my train of thought.

by mbedner on Dec 23, 2011 1:44 PM EST up reply actions

I should do more community service

I used to do quite a bit, and it really is enjoyable. If you haven’t gone, find something you might enjoy and try it.

When I was at DU, they had a requirement of one day of community service before graduation. I thought it was silly, as one day didn’t seem like enough. Boy was I wrong. A lot of people came back with very different outlooks. One woman volunteered at the homeless shelter downtown. Before she went, she assumed “that all homeless people were lazy and were homeless because it was their choice”. Needless to say, actually meeting some homeless people disabused her of that idea.

Formerly KS and CS

by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Dec 23, 2011 1:40 PM EST reply actions

agree

Ive tried doing some habitat for humanity but it turns out being 4 volunteers trying to share 1 hammer. At one site we were digging holes to plant trees. There was 30 people and 4 shovels. The ground was hard as cement and this girl could not make a dent. When I took over and made progress she complained I was hogging the shovel and I had to give it back. She tried digging the next 15 minutes with no progress. It’s not easy finding programs where you can work hard and make a difference.

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by Kevin Ewoldt on Dec 23, 2011 2:07 PM EST up reply actions

Habitat can get swamped because they are so well known

Places like APO organize lots of volunteer events. www.apo.org. When I was in college, they had something going on every weekend, and often on weeknights. They did all kinds of things, like working at a local church to make sack lunches then distribute them to kids in the summer who normally got a free lunch at school.

Formerly KS and CS

by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Dec 23, 2011 2:45 PM EST up reply actions

I've done community service a lot.

Both court ordered and voluntarily.

I see it as more cushion for the pushin'

by iH8dallas on Dec 23, 2011 2:21 PM EST reply actions

you sly southern thug, you

by mbedner on Dec 23, 2011 2:23 PM EST up reply actions

We keep it dirty down south.

I see it as more cushion for the pushin'

by iH8dallas on Dec 23, 2011 2:24 PM EST up reply actions

Founder: The Burgundy Warpath
http://theburgundywarpath.com

by Ronnie Adkins on Dec 23, 2011 2:31 PM EST up reply actions

I've done a bunch of different stuff

The child mentoring programs are probably the most fun and most rewarding to be a part of. I worked through an elementary school with a couple of friends and we would just hang out with the kids after school. Some of them did not really want to go home. So we would help them do their home work, then go outside or to the gym and play some basketball for awhile. Really all there was to it. Suddenly kids that were getting terrible grades were straight A students. I wish I still had time to work with programs like that. Highly recommended.

The Beat Box aka skins secondary.

by Al_CaPWNED on Dec 23, 2011 2:53 PM EST reply actions

I have a friend that does that

with his wife. Great program, the kids really get a lot out of it.

Formerly KS and CS

by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Dec 23, 2011 2:57 PM EST up reply actions

I did community service

Once here, and once overseas. Stuffing envelopes for the city of Rockville wasn’t much fun, but it got me my shoelaces back. On the other hand, when I was in Panama, we had to clear some trees in the forest to help build a school. Blowing shit up with Navy Seals and EOD is always a blast, good cause or not. I keep looking for similar projects around here, but can’t find any.

Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City "Sailor wanna hump-hump" bar, or is it getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.

by CJHutch on Dec 23, 2011 3:02 PM EST reply actions

I'm an Eagle Scout.

I feel I’ve paid my debt to society…

by mbedner on Dec 23, 2011 3:12 PM EST reply actions

I buy girl scout cookies every year

does that count for anything?

Formerly KS and CS

by ThrowItDownBigManThrowItDown on Dec 23, 2011 3:19 PM EST up reply actions

Kindness of their hearts or tax breaks?

I wonder….

I’m always weary of self-named foundations like The Santana Moss Foundation. The Kenyon Fox Foundation, The DeAngelo foundation….What exactly are those foundations?

by Elaw6 on Dec 23, 2011 4:15 PM EST reply actions