MLSE donates $1 million to Right To Play’s aboriginal youth program

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Larry Tanenbaum (left), chairman of the MLSE board of directors, poses with Johann Olav Koss (middle), president and CEO of Right To Play, and MLSE COO Tom Anselmi (right) pose after an Air Canada Centre news conference in Toronto, Wednesday, March 27, 2013, where Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment and its MLSE Foundation donated million to Right To Play\'s program to help aboriginal youth. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Neil Davidson

TORONTO – Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment is donating $1 million to Right To Play’s Promoting Life-skills in Aboriginal Youth (PLAY) program, which partners with First Nation communities across Ontario.

With the partnership, MLSE and the MLSE Foundation becomes PLAY’s largest single private sector donor.

The program is committed to changing lives through the spirit and power of sports.

Right To Play president Johann Olav Koss called it “an incredible day.”

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