Baltimore Ravens Community Programs

• Rickey Solomon - The Stadium School (grand prize winner)
• April Sexton - Shiloh Middle School
• Peter Dent - Glenmount Elementary/Middle School

#OurCommonCalvert (Calvert County); Baltimore Area Council, Boy Scouts of America (Baltimore City, and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard Counties); Berlin Intermediate School After School Academy (Worcester County); Big Brothers Big Sisters at the Y (Baltimore City, and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford and Howard Counties); Girl Scout Troop 1093 (Baltimore County); Girl Scout Troop 1165 (Baltimore County); Hampstead's Little Free Pantry (Carroll County); Leadership, Education, and Awareness about Disabilities (L.E.A.D) (Worcester County); Maryland National Guard Freestate ChalleNGe (Baltimore City, and Baltimore, Cecil, Harford and Howard Counties); Sho'men Youth Swim Team Volunteer Club (Kent and Queen Anne's Counties); Stephen Decatur High School National Honor Society (Worcester County); St. John's Episcopal Church – Young Adults in Church Youth Group (YAC) (Baltimore City, Baltimore and Howard Counties); Volunteen (Harford County); We Cancerve Movement, Inc. (Baltimore City, and Baltimore, Cecil and Harford Counties); Youth Empowerment Source (YES) (Cecil County)

The Ravens Foundation, Inc. is committed to improving, encouraging and enabling the healthy development of youth in the Baltimore area, as well as other parts of the state of Maryland. For the 13th-consecutive year, the foundation is executing the Ravens PLAY 60 Grant, which provides funding of up to $10,000 to qualifying nonprofit organizations that create and/or continue programs or projects promoting physical fitness and nutrition education.

The grant program continues the foundation's commitment to increasing physical activity among area youth and seeks to encourage healthy youth activities. The Ravens will consider funding requests that meet the following criteria:

• Organizations that submit requests must be a 501(c)(3) organization.
• Programs or projects must be directed at youth (5-18) and must promote physical fitness and/or nutrition education.
• Nonprofits must illustrate a programming component with measurable goals in order to be considered. Through the Ravens PLAY 60 Grant, the Foundation will not consider funding for the construction of buildings/fields/etc.
• Programs or projects must take place in Maryland.
• All applications MUST be submitted via hard copy mail. Hard copies can be mailed to: Attn: Community Relations, 1 Winning Drive, Owings Mills, MD 21117
• For more information about the NFL Play 60 initiative, visit: www.nfl.com/play60

• Week 1 - Marquise O'Neal - Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
• Week 2 - Chad McCormick - Old Mill High School
• Week 3 - Anthony Zehyoue - Loyola Blakefield
• Week 4 - Marcus Lewis - Marriotts Ridge High School
• Week 5 - Mat Feeney - Elkton High School
• Week 6 - Justin Payne - Parkville High School
• Week 7 - Chris Bassler - Westminister High School
• Week 8 - Hakeem Sule - McDonogh School
• Week 9 - Ed Dolch - South River High School
• Week 10 - Brian Henderson - Wilde Lake High School
• COY - Butch Schaffer - Glenelg High School

Justin Payne, varsity head football coach of the Parkville Knights, has been named the 2019 Ravens High School Coach of the Year. Payne is the 23rd recipient of the annual award.

The fifth-year head coach guided the Knights to their first-ever undefeated regular season (9-0) in the school's 66-year history. It marked the most wins in program history, en route to Payne's squad securing the school's first playoff victories after advancing to the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association Class 4A quarterfinals.

Payne took the helm in Parkville in 2015 following an 0-10 season for the Knights. He has steadily directed the program's turnaround over the last five years to achieving this season's 11-1 final mark. With many players on this season's team playing for Payne the previous four years, Parkville's head coach knew 2019 could be a special year for the Baltimore County school.

The Ravens High School Coach of the Year Award has been a fixture in youth athletics since 1997. Previous recipients include: Augie Waibel of Poly (1997), Nick Arminio of Eastern Technical (1998), Pete Pompey of Edmondson-Westside (1999), Dominic Damico of McDonogh (2000), Steve Turnbaugh of Hereford (2001), Dave Eubank of Dundalk (2002), Gene Brown of South Carroll (2003), Ben Eaton of Dunbar (2004), Brad Wilson of Westminster (2005), Dante Jones of Edmondson-Westside (2006), Lawrence Smith of Dunbar (2007), Tony Shermeyer of Century (2008), Rick Conner of Linganore (2009), Damon Bomar of Forest Park (2010), Roger Wrenn of Poly (2011), Reggie White of Milford Mill (2012), Elwood Townsend of Douglass (2013), Thomas Browne of Oakland Mills (2014), Sean Sandora of Dundalk (2015), Joe Polce of Walkersville (2016), Tim Palmer of Harford Tech (2017) and Butch Schaffer of Glenelg (2018).