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Cal Ripken Jr.
is known for his achievements on and off the field, and now he's making headlines for what he doesn't do on the field.
The baseball Hall of Famer, who grew up in Baltimore, doesn't play for the Baltimore Orioles or the Baltimore Sun, but he's on the board of the Baltimore Ravens Foundation, which this week awarded $100,000 in grants to 22 local nonprofit organizations, USA Today reports.
The PLAY 60 Grant, which the Ravens have been funding for 18 years, provides up to $10,000 for "both new and expanding programs or endeavors that promote physical fitness and/or nutrition education among youth," the team said in a statement.
Among the projects that received grants this year: Baltimore SquashWise, which offers a sports-based youth development program that works year-round with Baltimore City youth to advance equity in squash through physical, educational, and personal development opportunities; Girls on the Run of the Greater Chesapeake provides a physical, activity-based youth development program designed to develop young women's physical skills and core values to live a physically active and healthy lifestyle; Black Girls Cook works with inner-city adolescent black girls through food security, culinary arts, and urban farming, while emphasizing Black cultural histories and food practices; and the
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