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GAME CHANGER An Oral History of How the CFP Foundation is Elevating K-12 Teachers All Across the U.S. BY JAIME ARON
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n February 2013, inside a conference room at a DFW International Airport hotel, a group of people were hashing out details of a new way to crown a national champion in college football when one of them had a suggestion. This high-profile playoff system they were creating should provide more than excitement for studentathletes, coaches and fans. It should have a charitable component. Then they landed on the perfect cause: supporting K-12 teachers. Fueled by the harmony of the platform and the mission, the College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation has become the largest
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sports entity in the country benefiting education and one of the most successful philanthropic organizations in sports. Numbers offer one way to calculate the CFP Foundation’s impact, with more than $30 million invested, 5.5 million students reached, 250,000 teachers supported HONORING TEACHERS: That’s the mission of the and 27,000 schools CFP Foundation. touched. And that’s through only five iterations of the to convey the organization’s impact. CFP National Championship. It’s better expressed by the Yet numbers aren’t the only way eyes of a student walking into
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