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When Travis Kelce signed a $ 57 million contract with the Chiefs this week with the Chiefs, he decided that his first purchase would make little more sense than a new car.
Kelce announced that he will purchase a building for his Eighty-Seven & Running Foundation to provide teens in the city of Kansas City with a safe place to study science, technology, engineering and math.
I’m buying the building that will be the future home of the ‘Ignition Lab: Powered by 87 & Running’ – a collaborative space where these teenagers have the support, resources and opportunity to explore careers in STEM, their own business centers and gain real experience, ”Kelce wrote on the foundation’s website.
Kelce was inspired to start the foundation because he saw in his own childhood growing up in a diverse community in Cleveland Heights, Ohio that many children did not have the same benefits as him. When he joined the NFL, he was intent on helping inferior children, and his new contract is a means for him to do so.
