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Sharks Supporting Part-Time Staffers With New Relief Fund

The new Sharks Sports & Entertainment COVID-19 Relief Fund will support more than 1,800 part-time staffers from the organization’s four arenas, including SAP Center, through a series of individual grants. This is in addition to the Sharks’ prior efforts of paying part-time event staff for missed home regular-season games that haven’t been played yet. Sharks President Jonathan Becher said the fund is "designed for intermittent part-time employees,” adding, "It’s in our DNA to help." Players, coaches, front office staff and team sponsors have seeded the fund with more than $200,000. Becher said that the team, led by Owner Hasso Plattner, has committed to matching the money raised. The Sharks are expected to raise at least $600,000 (Mark J. Burns, THE DAILY).

RELIEF IN VEGAS: The Raiders and Owner Mark Davis yesterday donated $25,000 to The Actors Fund to open the Mondays Dark Live Stream Telethon event, helping to launch a night "where more than $120,000 was raised for members of the Las Vegas entertainment community" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 4/28)....The Golden Knights are "holding an online stick auction that runs through Friday to raise money for coronavirus relief." The initiative was "organized by the players’ wives and girlfriends through the Vegas Golden Knights Foundation, and nearly every player on the active roster is participating" (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 4/28).

WISH GRANTED: Penguins C Evgeni Malkin "made a donation to the Ronald McDonald House of Pittsburgh that, though the monetary amount is unknown, was enough to help the nonprofit 'fulfill its entire pantry wish list and provide games for family entertainment'" (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 4/28). 

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