Thirty-two years ago, Michael Lo Presti, about to graduate from Broad Run High School, asked legendary Redskins safety Mark Murphy if he would deliver the commencement speech to his school. Murphy obliged and even invited Lo Presti to his home to see his Super Bowl ring and meet his family.
That’s why, on Friday at the National Conference Center in Leesburg, Va., it was so personally fulfilling for him to name the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation as the first recipient of the Legacy Award, honoring a business that has gone above and beyond for Loudoun County Students.
Lo Presti, Chairman of the Loudoun School-Business Partnership Executive Council, handed the award to Jane Rodgers, executive director of the Charitable Foundation, who helped the organization impact more than 20,000 students and gift $224,382 in grants and funding during 2015 alone.