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INDIANAPOLIS – Pacers Foundation, Inc., announced a new partnership with The LEAGUE, a youth service organization, to carry out the Be Charitable program.

Schools across Indiana will implement the Be Charitable program which will help kindergarten through 12th grade students learn the value of giving back to their communities, working together and addressing their community’s needs, while making a friendly competition of it.

The Be Charitable program’s Starting Five are Pacers players, Fever players, coaches and celebrity staff, Pacemates and mascots.The Starting Five will support the students throughout the year delivering messages of encouragement, participating in service activities, rewarding students with Pacers and Fever tickets and delivering the trophy to the winners.

“The Be Charitable program is a collaborative effort in the truest sense: The LEAGUE; Pacers Foundation; Indiana Association of School Principals; schools across Indiana; students, teachers and parents; and local corporations who, we know, will want to become part of this – all of us are joining together to teach and inspire Indiana’s youth to give back and to continue to give back over the course of their lives,” said Jami Marsh, Executive Director, Pacers Foundation.

“Our primary goal is to encourage students to ‘Get into the game’ of community service” said Eric Hollister, State Director of Indiana for The LEAGUE.“When youth match their skills with issues that are meaningful to them, true passion emerges.”

Schools will be able to track the economic impact of students’ service activities using a point system created for the Be Charitable program.Schools and students can follow their point totals in a friendly competition with schools across the state and receive rewards for their efforts.

For additional information on the Be Charitable program, please contact Jami Marsh at (317) 917-2856 or jmarsh@pacers.com, or Eric Hollister at (317) 894-7240 or eric.hollister@leagueworldwide.org.

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