For Immediate Release Contact
January 30, 2012 (listed below)
Floyd Mayweather Provides $100,000 Sponsorship to Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas as Lead Sponsor for the 2012 Blitz Build
WHAT: Champion boxer Floyd Mayweather will present a check for $50,000 to Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas in support of its Blitz Build project that starts on June 4. Mayweather will be the Lead Sponsor for the build and has pledged a total of $100,000 to the organization for the project.
WHO: Floyd Mayweather, Seven Time World Champion and Las Vegas Resident
Meg Delor, Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas
Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas team
WHEN: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 2:30 pm
WHERE: 1401 N Decatur (cross streets are Washington and Vegas Drive)
CONTACT: Catherine Barnes, Director of Operations, 702-815-7952
Kelly Swanson, Swanson Communications (Mayweather) 202-783-5500
Blitz Build 2012 is a program that brings the community and volunteers together to build a home for a deserving family in just five days. The house will be located in Vegas Heights and is being constructed for a family of five. The new homeowners will be Tanya and Trent Torrence.
"We truly appreciate Floyd's support in helping us to reach our mission of providing simple, decent, affordable homes for working families through Las Vegas," "said Delor. "Habitat for Humanity's continuing efforts in neighborhoods such as Vegas Heights helps ensure that these communities will stabilize for everyone living there and bring new working families into the community"
"I am happy to support Habitat for Humanity, a special organization that has done excellent work in Las Vegas to provide housing for needy families in the area," said Mayweather. "My boxing career has afforded me the opportunity to make charitable contribution to worthy causes and I believe the Blitz Build project is one of those causes.
About Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas
Established in Clark County in 1991, Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas is a not-for-profit organization that builds simple, decent, affordable housing with the help of volunteer labor and donated time, materials and funds. Each home is sold at no profit and with a no-interest mortgage to local working families who otherwise might be forced to live in substandard housing. These families contribute "sweat equity" by helping in the construction of their own homes. For more information, visit www.habitatlasvegas.org.
In addition to meeting minimum and maximum income requirements, working families who qualify for the program must perform 300 hours of volunteer labor building Habitat homes, including the one they will eventually purchase. Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas is presently working to qualify 22 families for the Home Ownership program. The organization has acquired 20 building lots around the valley. Information about the next Home Ownership orientation is available on the organization's website www.habitatlasvegas.org, or by calling 702-638-6477.
About Floyd Mayweather
The best boxer of this era and without question the most talented Floyd Mayweather, an undefeated seven-time world championship in five weight classes, has shown an unprecedented mix of speed, power and natural instincts that has translated to a professional record of 42 wins, 26 knockout and no losses. His phenomenal career, which has afforded him record-setting career earnings, has allowed him to accomplish extraordinary things in and out of the ring. Mayweather's philanthropic efforts and dedication to those people in need motivated him to found the Floyd Mayweather Jr. Foundation (FMJF) in July of 2007. Through his own efforts and those of the FMJF, Mayweather has been the driving force behind large scale food drives, education giveaways for students in need of school supplies, Toys for Tots collections during the holidays, and many other ongoing financial donations to organizations in Las Vegas, in his hometown of Grand Rapids, MI, and across the United States.
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