Peace Players International is a charity whose aim is using sport to bring together children from different ethnic and religious groups in areas of conflict. Irina Pavlova sits on the group's board of directors. She spoke to Huff Post about the work.
There's probably no Net more associated with his hometown than Reggie Evans is with Pensacola. For starters, it's his nickname. It's also the main focus of the Reggie Evans Foundation, which aims to help the underprivileged in the Florida Panhandle
Mikhail Prokhorov was in Brooklyn to attend Nets playoff games vs. Chicago, but at the same time, his Mikhail Prokhorov Fund, was pushing culture, promoting the fund's three-year long cultural exchange with the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Earlier this week, the Nets donned bowling outfits, traded sneakers for bowling shoes and basketballs for bowling balls. It was part of a fund-raising efforts for the Nets Foundation and its community assist program.
Deron Williams, Jerry Stackhouse, Keith Bogans, Tyshawn Taylor and Kris Humphries will be on hand at LIU Saturday with rapper Fabolous to judge a sneaker-designing competition, part of the Nets community effort in Brooklyn.
The Nets will team up with Joe Johnson and DeleteBloodCancer.org for a bone marrow donor drive at Friday's game vs. Dallas at Barclays Center. Everyone entering the arena will receive a sports bag featuring the Delete Blood Cancer logo.
On Saturday, the Hoboken Housing Authority honored Tyshawn Taylor for his work with local youth. It was part of a celebration of Black History Month. Taylor is one several Nets who spoke about what Black History Month means to them.
Joe Johnson had just been traded when his mother Dianne was hospitalized with complications from chemotherapy. Johnson quietly left New York and spent a week with her in the hospital. Now, he's become a national spokesman for curing the disease.
Rodney Rogers, the ex-Net, is in Houston this weekend for a game not on the NBA TV schedule. He traveled 20 hours from North Carolina in a van, strapped into his $90,000 wheelchair, so he could watch former NBA stars raise money for his foundation.
Andray Blatche and Kris Humphries took some time off this week to perform a "random act of kindness," part of a series the Nets initiated on arrival in Brooklyn. Blatche wore the drive-through headphones and Humphries was behind the counter.
