Community

The AHS provides direct care and services to animals in need across the state. Through medical and behavioral programs, they seek to advance animal welfare and create a more humane world for animals everywhere.

Players representing AHS:

• Devin Padelford
• Joseph Rosales
• Mikael Marques
• Jefferson Díaz
• Matúš Kmeť

Since 1994, ACES has been committed to reducing the academic opportunity gap in Minnesota and improving the likelihood of success for students in under-resourced communities.

Players representing ACES:

• Michael Boxall
• Robin Lod

Best Buddies International is dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Player representing Best Buddies:

• Sang Bin Jeong

BBBS helps children realize their full potential and build better futures through their mentoring network. By developing positive relationships, they hope to leave direct and lasting effects on the lives of young people.

Players representing BBBS:

• Dayne St. Clair
• DJ Taylor
• Kelvin Yeboah

CCRF is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending childhood cancer. They support scientists and families across the nation in their pursuit of a healthier tomorrow for children fighting cancer.

Players representing CCRF:

• Alejandro Bran
• Derek Dodson
• Franco Fragapane

CLUES advances social and economic equity and wellbeing for Latinos by building upon our strengths and cultures, uplifting our community, and enabling leadership for systemic change.

Players representing CLUES:

• Miguel Tapias
• Carlos Harvey

Foster Adopt Minnesota's vision is Zero Kids Waiting for permanent loving families. Through this they find their mission to discover and strengthen Minnesota adoptive, foster care and kinship families.

Player representing Foster Adopt Minnesota:

• Bongokuhle Hlongwane

For more than 80 years, Keystone has improved the quality of life in Ramsey County through senior care, enrichment for children, helping to cover basic needs and assisting in times of crisis.

Players representing Keystone:

• Clint Irwin

NAMI Minnesota is dedicated to improving the lives of millions of Americans affected by mental illness through education, support, advocacy, listening and leading those in need.

Player representing NAMI:

• Tani Oluwaseyi
• Samuel Shashoua

Sanneh’s three pillars are to empower youth, improve lives, and unite communities. They seek to meet these pillars through various educational and health programs, as well as the advancement of diversity, equity, and community well-being.

Players representing Sanneh:

• Hassani Dotson
• Morris Duggan

SOMN have been working to create a world of inclusion and acceptance for people with intellectual disabilities for the last 50 years. Through year-round training, competition and several other programs, they are making Minnesota a more inclusive place every day.

Player representing SOMN:

• Zarek Valentin
• Alec Smir

At Together for Good, we provide wrap-around, relational care that helps to stabilize families, so that they can move beyond a crisis. There are four primary ways that our volunteers serve: hosting children during a crisis, so that parents are able to experience respite relief; building relationships with parents through parent advocacy; and meeting the practical needs of parents, such as meals or transportation

Player representing Together for Good:

• Wil Trapp

VRJ strives to use collective cultural and healing strategies to promote racial justice across the state of Minnesota. They hope to create a world free of racism that honors the culture, knowledge, power, and healing of Black, Indigenous, and communities of color.

Players representing VRJ:

• Jordan Adebayo-Smith
• Patrick Weah