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Eugene

(62,660 posts)
Wed Sep 28, 2022, 07:39 PM Sep 2022

Report: Brett Favre's charity foundation gave more than $130,000 to Southern Miss athletics

Original reporting: Brett Favre’s foundation, aimed at helping children and cancer patients, gave funds to USM athletics (The Athletic)

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Source: Yahoo! Sports

Report: Brett Favre's charity foundation gave more than $130,000 to Southern Miss athletics

Ryan Young·Writer
Wed, September 28, 2022 at 7:55 PM

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre used his charity foundation to donate more than $130,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi’s athletic foundation from 2018-2020, according to The Athletic’s Katie Strang and Kalyn Kahler.

His foundation, Favre 4 Hope, has helped support “underserved and disabled children and breast cancer patients” for years. That foundation gave Southern Mississippi’s athletic foundation $60,000 in 2018 — $50,000 more than it gave any other charity in the same year. It gave more than $46,800 in 2019, and then more than $26,100 in 2020.

Throughout that entire time, Favre 4 Hope gave no other charitable organization more than $11,000, per the report.

Favre 4 Hope also donated $60,000 to Oak Grove High School’s booster club in 2015. Favre’s daughter was a volleyball player at the high school at the time, and the donation was then given to the school with the stated purpose to “assist to build athletic facility.” The school opened a nearly 15,000 square foot volleyball facility later that year.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/report-brett-favre-used-his-charity-foundation-to-give-funding-to-southern-miss-athletics-235528444.html


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Report: Brett Favre's charity foundation gave more than $130,000 to Southern Miss athletics (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2022 OP
jeez, that guy truly is a piece of shit Skittles Sep 2022 #1
$60,000 To A High School Booster Club? Me. Sep 2022 #2
The guy Favre voted for used his foundation the same way tishaLA Sep 2022 #3
Bert Favor has hired the Attorney that helped tRump's 1st impeachment trial 😳 😳 😳 a kennedy Oct 2022 #4

tishaLA

(14,322 posts)
3. The guy Favre voted for used his foundation the same way
Wed Sep 28, 2022, 09:12 PM
Sep 2022

and now he's not allowed to run a charity foundation in the state of NY

a kennedy

(32,111 posts)
4. Bert Favor has hired the Attorney that helped tRump's 1st impeachment trial 😳 😳 😳
Mon Oct 3, 2022, 02:43 PM
Oct 2022

Hall of Fame quarterback and Packers legend Brett Favre is lawyering up as legal issues surrounding his connection to a Mississippi welfare scandal continue to escalate.

"Brett Favre has a hired a new, high-powered attorney to represent him in the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal: Eric Herschmann, who helped clear former Pres Trump in his first impeachment trial. Herschmann has 'concluded Favre shouldn’t be indicted.'”

(The Spun)

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