Legacy Award Dinner Honoring The
GET ACTIVE. GET HEALTHY.
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE FOUNDATION
The greatest changes happen when people come together with a common vision. That was the continuing thread woven throughout the evening at the 2019 Legacy Award Dinner held in downtown Dallas at the historic Belo Mansion. The annual event is the premier fundraiser for The Cooper Institute, founded by Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper nearly 50 years ago to prove through scientific research that exercise is the best preventive medicine.
This year’s event raised a record-breaking $740,000 to support our mission of research and education.
Kenneth H. Cooper presents the Legacy Award to Charlotte Jones Anderson in honor of the NFL Foundation.
The NFL Foundation has done more to improve youth health and fitness than almost any other organization across the country, which is why they are this year’s Legacy Award recipient. Charlotte Jones Anderson, Chairman of the NFL Foundation, accepted their award honoring the 11-year legacy to improve youth fitness through NFL PLAY 60.
“It’s all about prevention,” said Anderson at the 2019 Legacy Award Dinner. “We want to inspire young kids to do the right thing, to be active, to be motivated by playing.” Research from the NFL PLAY 60 FitnessGram Project with The Cooper Institute proves that the program works to help children achieve a healthier body weight and improve cardio fitness. Over 38 million children have participated in NFL PLAY 60 programs in 73,000 schools. The partnership to continue researching youth fitness has been renewed for another two years. Jimena Tinoco joins Angie and Arthur M. Blank, 2019 Legacy Award Dinner Executive Chair.
Stan Richards, Carol Murphy, Charlotte Jones Anderson
Executive chairs Arthur Blank and Roger Staubach are thankful for all of the support of this year’s event. “It’s phenomenal to be able to prove how exercise and fitness can help you live longer and more productively,” said Staubach, a long-time member of the board of trustees and the 2016 award recipient.
“I want to encourage everybody to consider how they can get more involved in their own school districts and governments to use FitnessGram,” said Blank who was last year’s award recipient for helping transform youth health and fitness in his home state of Georgia with the FitnessGram assessment. Charlie Duke and Roger Staubach, 2019 Legacy Award Dinner Executive Chair
Kenneth H. Cooper, Tony Evans
Improving public health can be a daunting task, but Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price earned the Well.Hero. Award for inspiring an entire city to get active, eat better and live healthier. Fort Worth is now the largest city in the U.S. to join the Blue Zone Project, a strategic partnership backed by Texas Health Resources. The program makes healthy choices the easy choice so residents can live longer and better with less chronic disease.
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NFL PLAY 60 FITNESSGRAM PROJECT
11 YEARS Jerry Jones, Charlotte Jones Anderson
2015 Legacy Award Recipient, Lyda Hill joins Bobbie Sue Williams.
WORKING TOGETHER TO IMPROVE STUDENT HEALTH AND FITNESS
