GREEN BAY – Mark Murphy made a statement in June, not just with words but with his checkbook, when the Green Bay Packers President/CEO made a personal donation of $250,000 to match the organization’s pledge to Wisconsin causes to affect social justice.
“Without taking away from this most important focus on the Black Lives Matter movement, we can also take this time to dissect our own role in discrimination toward people with differences in gender, gender identity, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, and physical and mental abilities,” Murphy said in a release issued at the time by the team. “I will continue to educate myself on these issues and spend more time putting words into practice.