The official team charity of the Boston Red Sox, the Red Sox Foundation harnesses the power of Red Sox Nation to support select programs serving at risk children and families across New England. The Foundation’s efforts are primarily focused on our cornerstone programs, including the Red Sox Scholars Program, which provides mentoring, enrichment programs and a college scholarship to academically talented but economically disadvantaged Boston public school students, and the Red Sox Foundation’s RBI and Rookie League youth baseball and softball programs serving inner city children and teens each summer. The team charity also supports the new Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with combat stress and traumatic brain injury, The Dimock Center in Roxbury, serving more than 40,000 low-income families in Boston’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods as well as The Jimmy Fund, supporting breakthrough cancer research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
The Red Sox Foundation has won a number of awards including Major League Baseball’s first-ever MLB Commissioner’s Award for Philanthropic Excellence and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Sports Philanthropy Project Patterson Award as “Best Team Charity in Sports.” We are honored to partner with the B.A.A. and 100% of the proceeds raised through our charitable team’s participation in the Boston Marathon will be used to support the Red Sox Scholars program and RBI youth softball/baseball programs. For more information about our nonprofit cornerstone programs, please visit www.redsoxfoundation.org. We thank the B.A.A. and all of the Red Sox Foundation’s Marathon runners and those who support them – with each mile, you are helping to close the opportunity gap for disadvantaged youth in our community.