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Building Brighter Futures

Morlon Greenwood Foundation: Nurturing Future Leaders

The Morlon Greenwood Foundation, founded by former NFL player Morlon Greenwood in 2015, provides programming for students residing in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. This programming is designed to be creative, community-based, and of high quality, and focuses on academic, athletic, and intellectual skills for those children in the community that take part. This model is developed by partnering with elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as other similarly designed community organizations, throughout these disadvantaged communities in order to meet the unique needs of these students both inside and outside of the program. Within Las Vegas Valley, our corporate sponsors include Binion’s Gambling Hall, Four Queens Hotel & Casino, and the Chicago Brewing Company. Other community partners include Delta Academy, the Richard Steele Foundation, Las Vegas Metro Police Athletic League, Adventure Recreation Experience, Nevada Homeless Alliance, 2Act Ministries, Leaders In Training, Project 150, Real Talk and the Clark County School District. The goal of these programs is to develop leadership and mentoring programs to give the children who participate a guide that allows them to become upstanding members of their communities.

Beyond the Field

The foundation offers athletic camps to the youth within these communities. These camps hone in on abilities such as sportsmanship, teamwork, accountability, and respect for diversity, which are all skills that once learned, can be applied on the community level to develop good citizenship habits, therefore giving these children a guideline to becoming respectable members of their neighborhood and becoming role models for other children around them.

Overall, young community members who participate in the camps are left with the skills to better themselves, as well as the knowledge of accessible mentors who have the ability to assist them in the future with issues facing both themselves and their community as a whole.

Our Mission

Raise Up youth to become successful socially responsible citizens through mentorship imparted to encourage the realization of their full potential while respecting diversity within the community.

Our Programs

The Morlon Greenwood Foundation has designed a sports program that helps to reduce the negative influences that impact the lives of our youth, especially in urban areas.

Our Complex

The organization will be housed in the MG52 OLYMPIC COMPLEX, endorsed by the NFL Alumni Las Vegas Chapter will be a full service multi-sports complex and full wrap-around services for the youth.

Hope & Healing

In addition, the Morlon Greenwood Foundation has committed itself to combatting the opioid epidemic within Las Vegas valley through the development of a twelve week program in conjunction with our many community partners. This program targets both youth and young adults who have been personally affected by the epidemic due to abuse and dependency. This particular program is designed to provide an individualized plan for recovery based on the unique path each individual takes towards opioid abuse, provides necessary skills to break the cycle of abuse and prepare for recovery maintenance, fosters engagement in prosocial activities, and educates each participant on resources and mentorship available to them within their respective communities. Each individual who completes the program will participate in a graduation ceremony to celebrate their accomplishments, as well as a follow up event three months after graduation to monitor progress and congratulate former graduates on their successes after the program. Thus, the Morlon Greenwood foundation is dedicated in its mission to improve disadvantaged communities using several methods of programming for these communities.