Magic Johnson Foundation and UnitedHealthcare Bring Holiday Hope to Michigan Families
November 20 2017 - 11:09AM
Business Wire
- Holiday Hope events provided 5,000
families in Detroit, Flint and Lansing with food, coats, toys and
essential living items in time for the holiday season
Magic Johnson Foundation and UnitedHealthcare held three Holiday
Hope events over the weekend that provided Michigan families in
Detroit, Flint and Lansing with food, coats, toys, holiday
trimmings and essential living items.
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UnitedHealthcare and Magic Johnson
Foundation hosted three Holiday Hope events over the weekend in
Detroit, Flint and Lansing providing more than 5,000 Michigan
families with food, coats, toys, holiday trimmings and essential
living items. This marked the fourth year UnitedHealthcare
sponsored Holiday Hope. (Photo: Ken Jones)
Nearly 5,000 families participated in Holiday Hope events in
Detroit at Second Ebenezer Church, Flint at Flint Northwestern High
School and Lansing at Everett High School. Volunteers from
UnitedHealthcare, Magic Johnson Foundation and other partner
organizations joined community leaders in distributing items to
local families.
This is the fourth year Magic Johnson Foundation and
UnitedHealthcare partnered on this relief effort to support
distressed Michigan families during the holiday season.
“Since 2014, Holiday Hope has served nearly 30,000 Michigan
residents with nearly $2 million worth of food, turkeys, toys,
coats and personal-care items,” said Johnson, founder of Magic
Johnson Foundation and Michigan native. “UnitedHealthcare and other
community partners have joined us in bringing hope and cheer to
Michigan communities. I couldn’t enjoy the holidays without
providing some help to families in the state where I grew up.”
“The Magic Johnson Foundation is well known for its work in
these cities and engages locally to help improve our communities’
health, wellness and quality of life,” said Dennis Mouras, CEO,
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Michigan. “We are grateful for
the opportunity to support Magic Johnson Foundation and Holiday
Hope.”
UnitedHealthcare has donated more than $550,000 to support
Holiday Hope and is the largest multiyear corporate grant partner
to Magic Johnson Foundation.
About the Magic Johnson
FoundationThe Magic Johnson Foundation, founded by
basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson is a 501(c) (3)
organization that was established in 1991 as a grantmaker and to
raise funds for community-based organizations focused on HIV/AIDS
education and prevention. The organization has since expanded its
mission and now develops programs that address the educational,
health and social needs of ethnically diverse urban communities.
MJF has donated over $14 Million to underserved communities since
inception. For more information about the Magic Johnson Foundation,
visit http://magicjohnson.org.
About
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health
care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and
sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company
offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and
their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with 1 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at
www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.
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UnitedHealthcareTony Marusic,
312-348-3825tony_marusic@uhc.comorMagic Johnson FoundationJeanella
Blair, 562-618-3388jblair@magicjohnsoncharities.org
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