At the start of December, Bills cornerback Josh Norman had a vision of how he could help people in his new community that were struggling due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Norman and his Starz 24 Foundation partnered with Mayor Byron Brown and the City of Buffalo to start the Buffalo Business Blitz; an initiative aimed to provide funds to Buffalo-area businesses in need of support. Norman started with $25,000 of his own money but he isn't the type of person to write a check and just walk away. For the Bills cornerback, that's when the hard work just got started. He challenged local leaders, organizations, teammates, and Bills Mafia to help them reach their goal of raising one million dollars by the start of February.
In a press conference on Friday at the West Side Bazaar, Norman, alongside Shatorah Donavan, the Chief Diversity Officer for the city of Buffalo, and Carolyn Welch, the executive director of the Westminster Economic Development Initiative (WEDI), announced that the Buffalo Business Blitz initiative raised approximately $500,000 to help over 200 local businesses.
Norman opened the press conference by saying how grateful he was to work with the City of Buffalo and give back to the community.
"Grateful, I truly am grateful," Norman stated. "I thank Elohim, I really do, for having this vision to start this initiative and to helping out this community really. A community you come to not knowing much of anything about it, but when a crisis happens, you want to step up and put your best foot forward and do something about it. And I think that's when change starts, by doing. … I don't think none of this would have ever happened if we wouldn't have brought the city together and bringing the partnership of the Mayor's office, Mayor Brown and Shatorah. And then as we began to combine this thing together, we started seeing the community get involved and get behind it."
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