Browns Give Back Summer Volunteer Blitz: By the Numbers

Browns employees gathered Thursday at the East Community Learning Center in Akron for a day of volunteer work for the organization’s fifth annual “Summer Blitz” event.

The event brings all three core areas of “Browns Give Back” together — a commitment to education via the “Stay In The Game, Keep Learning Everyday! Network”, youth football and social justice — and encourages staff members to #Give10 and help their communities by volunteering for 10 hours each year. Through First and Ten, the Browns are the only NFL club to promote a long-term volunteering program that unifies the team and its entire fan base, with the goal of impacting every individual’s city across the globe, as well as the franchise’s local community.

Here are some of the numbers that highlight the work volunteers achieved:

50 – Browns employees who gave their time and support to a community by preparing the current Community Learning Center to welcome students, families, and community members back in the fall.

10 – Volunteers assembled and painted 10 picnic tables.

400 – new seating options which the school will be able to use to enhance its outdoor space.

5 – Outdoor games and benches volunteers assembled to provide a usable space for student participation in outdoor activities. The school will use the area to incentivize students regarding behavior, attendance, and academic performance.

15 – Yards of space weeded and mulched by volunteers inside the courtyard, which will serve as an additional outdoor space for teachers and students. The current space is used as both a reward for classrooms and outdoor social space during lunchtime weather permitting. The space is in the heart of the building surrounded by the high school auxiliary gym and cafeteria.

15-20 – Students who will daily be able to use a fresh painted room for in-school suspension, which will also be enhanced by the NFL’s Digital Divide Grant that will provide students with the electronic devices necessary to continue learning outside…