As a part of the NFL’s social justice initiative, the Bengals organization, with the help of several players, donated $300,000 to four different programs. According to the Bengals website: “The programs focus on poverty and reducing barriers to opportunity, with a priority on supporting improvements in education and economic advancement and community and police relations.”
The Bengals Positive Impact Committee helped raise the money for the social justice efforts and helped choose the programs for the committee to support. The committee is composed of Andy Dalton, Darqueze Dennard, Vincent Rey, alongside two Walter Payton Man of the Year nomimees, Michael Johnson and Carlos Dunlap.