PERTH AMBOY – Woody Johnson, Co-Chairman of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee and Owner of the New York Jets paid a visit to Perth Amboy on November 1, 2013 to present a donation of a grant of $1.5 million to be distributed by the Host Committee’s Snowflake Youth Foundation. Recipients are: PHRAD, Boys & Girls Club of America, Jersey Cares, Kaboom, Rahway Recreation Center, Robert D. Wilson Memorial Community Center, Highlands, NJ, Toms River East High School, and the Youth Consolation Service.

Those who attended the announcement included: Woody Johnson; NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee President and CEO Al Kelly; Senior VP and Dir. of Health Care Group at RWJ Foundation, John Lumpkin, MD, MPH, Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz, Senator Joe Vitale; Frank L. Nolan, Mayor of Highlands, NJ; Connie Ludwin, Partnership & Programs who was the one who contacted PRAHD about grants provided by the Snowkflake Foundation; Douglas Eagles, Exec. Dir. Boys & Girls Clubs of Monmouth Co. PRAHD received $100,000 from the NY/NJ Snowflake Youth Foundation. The funds were used to renovate the Kids Play Area at PRAHD, purchase equipment for the kids, and repair the bathroom facilities and the playground area Mi Escuelita.

The NY/NJ Snowflake Youth Foundation is a newly formed charity at MetLife Stadium headquartered at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford,NJ. The foundation was created to harness the excitement of the Super Bowl XLVIII to raise critical funds to renovate and transform afterschool facilities in the NY/NJ area that provide school age boys & girls with safe and supervised recreational, educational, and character building activities. For more info go to www.snowflakeyouthfoundation.org