Bills NFL announce 400K donation to Buffalo charities after racially-motivated mass shooting from seestyle's blog

At least 10 people died after a and in the days since, the are doing their part to heal the community. The Buffalo Bills Foundation and NFL Foundation announced Wednesday they are donating a combined $400,000 to charities benefiting Buffalo's East Side community.Half the donation will go toward the Buffalo Together Austin Meadows Jersey Community Response Fund, a nonprofit with the mi sion of The other half will go to nonprofits supporting the "immediate needs" of Buffalo's East Side residents, including one that will deliver food to those who can't make it to Francisco Cervelli Jersey a food distribution site. "On behalf of the Buffalo Together Community Response Fund, we are most grateful for the generous contributions from the Buffalo Bills Foundation and the National Football League Foundation that will allow us to create real change and emerge from the darkne s of this heinous act," Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, president and CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, . "This Fund is a partnership to build upon the collective desire to take action and to work together as a community to addre s immediate needs, long-term rebuilding and systemic i sues that continue to marginalize communities of color."In Willie Stargell Jersey a statement, the Bills said "this is just the beginning" of their community efforts. They began fulfilling that promise immediately. The Bills decided during a recent team meeting to visit the site of the tragic shooting. On Wednesday, around 80 members of the Bills organization made the trip, one that saw them distribute food, lay flowers on the victims' memorial and interact with the community. We love you and we Kent Tekulve Jersey grieve with you, Buffalo. Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) Bills players wore shirts reading, "Choose Love," and they brought exactly that. "This gave us an opportunity to come out and be physical and Colin Moran Jersey show that we care about this community," Bills quarterback . "To be in the community, give some hope, share some grief -- that's how we're going to get past this."