Athletes for Hope is a nonprofit organization that works to educate professional athletes about philanthropy, connect them with charitable causes, recognize these efforts and inspire others to get involved in the community. AFH emphasizes that its focus is on the athlete's time and not their money.
The CEO of Athletes for Hope is Ivan Blumberg, a former sports agent who began his career at Proserv, Inc. in 1983. While at Proserv, Ivan represented many athletes including Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, Stefan Edberg, Arthur Ashe and Yannick Noah. After ProServ was acquired by SFX/Clear Channel, Ivan became the President of Athlete Representation and managed the representation of over 750 athletes in nine sports. Ivan has also served as a senior consultant to SFX Sports where he managed their relationship with Andre Agassi. In addition to leading Athletes for Hope, Ivan also serves on the Board of the Andre Agassi Foundation and is both a board member and the volunteer Vice-Chairman of Hope and a Home, a charitable organization in the District of Columbia for at-risk families. He also runs a camp at his home in Maryland each summer for underprivileged inner-city children.
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“The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth ... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than Death or Night;
To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change nor falter nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan! is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire and Victory.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)