Tampa Bay Rays gift Pinellas County Urban League with $25,000 donation

A Tampa Bay area nonprofit just got a much-needed surprise from the Rays.

The team’s $25,000 donation will go toward social justice initiatives and will help struggling workers and businesses.

On Opening Day, the Rays made waves across the baseball world with a tweet on the death of Breonna Taylor, killed by police on a no-knock warrant in Kentucky. The team also pledged to donate $100,000 to five groups that fight systemic racism.

The Pinellas County Urban League (St. Petersburg, FL) got a check for $25,000.

“Outside of being flabbergasted, I was excited," said President and CEO Reverend Watson L. Haynes. "Every organization has that desire to really speak out on issues but there’s no opportunity to create that mechanism and now the Rays have given us the mechanism to do it.”

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