Travis Kelce is giving again to the folks of Kansas Metropolis.
The NFL tight finish, 34, teamed up with Operation Breakthrough and the Kodiak breakfast model to donate 25,000 meals to younger folks in his group.
“Joining forces with my friends over at Kodiak to fuel the Operation Breakthrough families is a total privilege,” Kelce mentioned in a press launch on Thursday, January 25. “Alongside Kodiak, a brand I love, we will be making a meaningful difference in the day-to-day life of hundreds of Kansas City kids, and I couldn’t be more excited to make this happen.”
Operation Breakthrough is a nonprofit group that was based in 1971 as an afterschool program for under-resourced youth in Kansas Metropolis.
Kodiak, in the meantime, sells high-protein and entire grain breakfast merchandise. Kelce grew to become an investor within the model in 2022.
“We are thrilled to work with Travis and an organization that is near and dear to his heart,” Kodiak CEO, Val Oswalt, shared in a separate assertion. “By providing nutritious breakfasts we are giving kids what they need to be set up for success, and ultimately pave the way for healthier futures.”
Via the mixed efforts of Kelce and Kodiak, households in Kansas Metropolis will be capable to obtain a scorching breakfast.
That is hardly Kelce’s first occasion of giving again. The Chiefs participant based the Eighty-Seven & Operating basis in 2015 to assist “underserved youth strive to become productive citizens by mentoring and motivating them to explore and develop their abilities while learning critical life skills,” in line with its web site. Assets are supplied by fundraising efforts, athletic applications, mentoring and outreach initiatives.
Whereas Eighty-Seven & Operating focuses on initiatives for younger folks, Kelce additionally used his basis to assist longtime Kansas Metropolis resident Gloria White after the home she lived in for 56 years wanted main repairs.
Kelce teamed up with Rebuilding Collectively Kansas Metropolis earlier this month and donated sufficient cash to restore her dwelling. White is a longtime fan of Kelce’s NFL staff as one among her relations had been married to former Chiefs participant Otis Taylor.
Government director of Rebuilding Collectively Kansas Metropolis Scott Hickox instructed Kansas Metropolis’s KSHB 41 on January 12 that White’s home wanted “a new roof,” together with gutters and “work in the bathroom and kitchen.”
“For Travis to care enough and his foundation to care enough about his community and what’s happening in Kansas City, this meant the world [that] he could partner with us,” he added.