Davone Bess Delivers Toys to the Children in Morningside Outreach Site
Davone Bess to deliver toys to inner-city children on Friday, Dec. 17.
Star Dolphins’ wide receiver teams with The Miami Foundation to do good things for underprivileged kids.
MIAMI – Dec. 15, 2010 – Davone Bess with The Miami Foundation will deliver toys at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17, to underprivileged children enrolled in an after-school ballet program at Morningside Elementary, 6620 NE 5th Ave., Miami.
The wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins personally collected the gifts during a toy drive he initiated with help from The Miami Foundation after establishing a philanthropic fund with the permanent endowment.
“This is just one way we work with our fund holders to give back to the community,” Emily Gresham, vice president of development for The Miami Foundation, said Wednesday.
Recipients of the toys are children enrolled in the Thomas Armour Ballet’s after-school Morningside Elementary Outreach. The program provides free ballet classes and equipment to more than 200 children. Funded in part by The Miami Foundation grants, the ballet program works with children to give them the tools they need to advance their education and careers to become success stories like Bess. http://www.thomasarmouryouthballet.org/morningside.html
Established in 1967, The Miami Foundation, formerly the Dade Community Foundation, has helped hundreds of people create personal, permanent and powerful legacies by establishing custom, charitable funds. With foundation expertise, fund holders have fostered the arts, awarded scholarships, championed diversity, taught kids to read, provided food and shelter for the hungry and homeless, and more.
More than $150 million in grants and scholarships has been awarded in the foundation’s rich 43-year history. Today, the foundation is steward to nearly $150 million in charitable assets.