Mullen Foundation Receives Charity Gift From Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl
ATLANTA -- The Mullen Family 36 Foundation received a $10,000 gift in recognition of Team Mississippi State’s participation in last week’s Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament.
The Mississippi State duo of Head Football Coach Dan Mullen and former fullback Fred McCrary earned a total of $20,000 in winnings, which the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl will split between the Mullen Family 36 Foundation and an endowed scholarship at Mississippi State University.
“Our mission to give back is a driving force in everything that we do,” said Gary Stokan, President & CEO of Peach Bowl, Inc. “We’re grateful for the participation of these coaches and celebrities, and are happy to have the opportunity to give something back to their universities and the causes that are so close to their hearts.”
The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl’s $10,000 gift to the Mullen Family 36 Foundation will support the organization’s mission to give children around the state of Mississippi opportunities to succeed. The Foundation’s goal is to contribute to ‘36’ different charities that enrich the lives of children in need through healthcare, education, athletics, the arts and scholarships.
Following its mission to support scholarship and charity at all levels, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge will pay out a total of $520,000 to its 13 participating teams this year, with the winnings being split between the charity of each team’s choice and an endowed scholarship at each university.
In addition to the $520,000 charity and scholarship purse, another $113,305 was generated for charitable organizations including the American Diabetes Association. Over the last nine years, the event has contributed a total of $5.3 million in scholarship and charity.
In 2014, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl recorded its eighth straight year of more than $1 million in giving. Since 2002, college football’s most charitable bowl game has distributed $17.6 million in charity and scholarship.