Gridiron Giving

Today I volunteered my time at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital.  My friend Ryan Thorman, former U of M Football Player, recently created a new 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization called Gridiron Giving.  It all started a few weeks ago with a personal Facebook post saying he’d match donations to give sick or needy kids toys for Christmas.  Ryan raised over $2,000 in no time, and the idea snowballed into something much bigger.

Ryan, along with his non-profit business partner Rod Ganther, and their U of M football buddies, delivered a bunch of brand new toys and portable DVD players to the recovering kids.  It was great to see the looks on the kids and parents faces.  I’m excited to watch this new charity grow each and every year.  Way to go Ryan!

Visit Gridiron Giving online at http://www.gridirongiving.com/
(their new website is in the works)

– Jackson

Gridiron Giving volunteers at a young patient's bedside at Amplatz Children's Hospital

The donated toys stacked up before the delivery: Nerf, Star Wars, Transformers, board games

A volunteer wheeling a cart of toys through the Amplatz Children's Hospital lobby

Four Gridiron Giving volunteers in Minnesota polos in the hospital lobby

A volunteer pushing the loaded toy cart along the hospital corridor

A volunteer handing a game to a child in a hospital bed

A child opening a gift in a hospital bed, volunteers and family around

A speaker on stage in front of an EY backdrop

Two Gridiron Giving volunteers talking in a hospital room doorway

A young patient laughing over a box of Uno in the hospital bed

Two volunteers handing a gift to a patient at the bedside

Four Gridiron Giving volunteers outside the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital

Volunteers wheeling carts of toys down the yellow hospital corridor

Four volunteers with a loaded toy cart in front of the Amplatz sign

 

Minneapolis wedding photographer Jackson Tyler Eddy

Jackson Tyler Eddy is a Minneapolis wedding photographer with 17+ years behind the camera, hundreds of weddings photographed, and a place in The Knot Hall of Fame. His landscape work has been featured by National Geographic in its Daily Dozen, and that same artist's eye carries into every wedding he photographs. Available for weddings throughout Minnesota and destinations worldwide.

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