DETROIT (WXYZ) — Amazon announced it plans to donate more than $300,000 to help fund youth sports. Fourteen local nonprofit organizations in the city of Detroit are the beneficiaries.
The company announced the endeavor on its Prime Day.
Downtown Boxing Gym, one of the recipients, said the money will really help since it takes funds to operate and pay staff. Additionally, the opportunity gives access to new equipment.
CEO and Founder Khali Sweeney said it’s ultimately about keeping kids on the right path to make something of themselves.
“It’s trying times for everybody, but for them to step up in a major way and donate cash… not only cash but other resources that could be used, I mean, it was a major thing,” Sweeney told 7 Action News.
He said his gym’s name tells only a fraction of what impact the organization has on the community.
“The name is Downtown Boxing Gym, but we do so much more. We do literacy, literacy intervention. We do math intervention. We also do sports sampling. We do health and wellness. We do mentorships,” he explained.