MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minnesota Vikings announced Tuesday that the team is investing nearly $1 million in social justice efforts focusing on voter registration, criminal justice and law enforcement reform, and the teaching of Black history.
The money is just part of a $5 million pledge the Wilf family, which owns the Vikings, made earlier this year following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The team’s social justice committee determines where the financial resources will go and how Vikings players will be involved in particular initiatives. Much of the $1 million will go to programs that Vikings have worked with in the past.