The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation: 2014-2015 Grant Guidelines
This marks the eighth grant cycle for the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation. The majority of the grants distributed will help K-9 units to purchase dogs and dog safety vests, but other types of needs are also considered.
“I think I speak for all K-9 handlers when I say thank you for your support for Police K-9’s.” — Officer Chris Angus, Nebraska City Police Department, photographed with his partner, Jordy.
The Foundation will be distributing grants in the cities and surrounding communities of each regular season away game for the Steelers during the 2014-15 season.
The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation at The Giving Back Fund has announced the new grant guidelines for the 2014 grant cycle.
The Foundation will be distributing grants in the cities and surrounding communities of each regular season away game for the Steelers during the 2014 NFL season. The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation invites police and fire departments in these eight cities to submit proposals detailing their needs.
Also, for each Steelers’ appearance in a playoff game, a grant will be awarded to a non-NFL market city anywhere in the United States that would not otherwise be eligible to apply. In addition, the Foundation will continue to make grants to several police and fire department K-9 units in the Pittsburgh area following Super Bowl XLIX.
The Foundation distributed $157,600 in grants to K-9 units around the country during the 2013 NFL season and has distributed in excess of $1.2 million since 2007.
Eligible departments must apply to The Giving Back Fund by August 15, 2014.
Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.
You can view the full grant requirements, eligibility and evaluation process, please visit http://www.givingback.org/documents/RFP_2014_BRF_app.pdf.
You can also see the guidelines on Ben’s Foundation page here.
More from Officer Angus and Jordy:
“Whether we’re working during the week, or watching the Steelers on the weekend, we always bleed black and gold!” — Chris Angus
Jordy was purchased in Sharpsville, PA from Shallow Creek Kennels. He started with the Nebraska City Department in 2010 and been a very important tool for us. Besides his normal patrol duties, he is also a “star” in the classroom. They give demonstrations and talks to elementary school children, and Jordy loves the attention!
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Stand back & take cover
We’ve got a first-time spaghetti eater here…
Dad, you want me to eat this stuff with a fork?!
Wait, I may be getting the hang of this…nevermind, it’s way more fun eating it like this!!
Ben: “It’s good to get out here”
“It’s just exciting to play football again!”
Big Ben met with the media today after OTA’s at the Steelers complex:
Some of the topics he talked about include getting to see the “young guys” on the field for the first time; working with his “new targets”; how impressed he is with Maurkice Pouncey’s “hard word and dedication” in getting back on the field himself; working on the no-huddle; going out to California during the off-season to work with Markus Wheaton and Derek Moye; the idea of Pittsburgh hosting a Super Bowl, and more…
You can watch the video from Steelers.com here.
Look who stopped by
…with a holiday weekend wish!
Hi everyone! Happy Memorial Day Weekend from the pool! Make it #redwhiteandblue — Benjamin, Jr. (and my fam)
Remembering the reason for the holiday
The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation at work
“Some debris on the floor and some chairs and things that were knocked over that he had to get through but what he did was — he tied the suspect up long enough for us to be able to get in and safely resolve it.” — Cpl. David Garner, Baltimore County SWAT, on the efforts of their K9, Raven during a tense standoff last week.
From Brian Kuebler’s report at ABC-2 News in Baltimore:
It has been exactly a week now since what police say was a mentally disturbed man rammed the WMAR-TV lobby with a truck creating a barricade situation and some tense moments.
The damage is still evident here at the station as we look to start rebuilding — but it’s not lost on us that the people we usually cover gave us the cover we needed that day, the women and men of law enforcement — and man’s best friend.
The images are still traumatic; the sounds are still jarring.
But as WMAR staff ran out of the building last week, Baltimore County police SWAT team members ran in.
A man was now in the station and no one knew where or what his intentions were.
That would quickly become obvious to Garner and the rest of the Baltimore County SWAT team as they made entry into the station. It was also quickly determined that Vladimir Baptiste was holed up in an upstairs edit suite.
Garner says they tried talking to Baptiste but he just kept ranting. That is when they decided to go in but they weren’t sure whether the suspect was armed.
For that job — Garner needed his partner — a German Shepherd named Raven.
“At that point we know we needed the dog and wanted the dog inside as one of our assets so I left the building and went and got him,” Garner said.
With so much glass strewn throughout the lobby — Garner had to pick up the trained k-9 and carry him to the steps.
He would be used upstairs to help contain Baptiste once the SWAT team made entry.
Baptiste was arrested without further incident and was charged with attempted murder.
No one was hurt in part because of the expert defensive tactics of this Baltimore County K9.
But we need to give an offensive assist to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This German […]