Since teaming up with the USO in 1966, more than 250 NFL players, coaches, and executives have participated in 33 USO overseas tours visiting service members and military families around the world. This year alone, the USO used NFL donations to support the construction and renovation of seven new centers, eight Rally Point-6 Sites, three Military Entrance Processing Station upgrades and the refurbishment of 19 facilities for veterans, military service members and their families around the world. This includes support for the USO’s Force Behind the Forces Campaign, a new development and renovation project that will allow the USO to expand services to an additional 125,000 service members and military families.Ĭontributions from the NFL’s Salute to Service campaign have supported a number of USO projects.

Through the lens of football, we will continue to keep our service members connected to the things they hold dear: family, home and country with an additional $5 million donation over the next three years. Here’s how: USOįor the past 50 years, the NFL and USO have been committed to honoring and celebrating our service members and their families year round through the Salute To Service platform. The NFL works with its military non-profit partners to honor and support servicemen and women through Salute to Service. The NFL does not profit from the sale or auction of Salute to Service merchandise.

The NFL donates 100 percent of proceeds from the sale of Salute to Service merchandise and on NFL Auction to its military non-profit partners. In honor of the men and women who serve our country, the NFL will again donate $1,000 for every point scored during the NFL’s 32 Salute to Service games to the partners.

Since 2011, nearly $10 million has been raised through Salute to Service to support the league’s military appreciation non-profit partners, USO, Pat Tillman Foundation and Wounded Warrior Project. The league’s military appreciation efforts, which extend throughout the year, culminate in November with NFL Salute to Service games and special events honoring veterans, active-duty service members and their families Every year, the NFL and the NFL Players Association come together in honor of Veterans Day to celebrate and recognize members of the military as part of the league’s Salute to Service.

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