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For Jarrett Allen, helping children with incarcerated parents is a slam dunk

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In his first three years with the Nets — when he was between 19 to 21 years old — Jarrett Allen looked forward to his big annual community event, “Meals + Math,” where he would take 25 children, all of them with incarcerated parents, to Key Foods, hand them a $100 gift card and a calculator. The kids would then scatter about the store, filling their baskets while calculating what they had left on their card.

This year, he and his partners at City Harvest and Children of Promise realized that wouldn’t work in COVID times.