Travis Kelce, who signed a four-year, $57 million contract extension with the Chiefs this week, determined that his first purchase would be something more substantial than a new automobile.
Kelce said that he will purchase a building for his Eighty-Seven & Running Foundation, which will provide a safe environment for inner-city Kansas City youngsters to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
“I am purchasing the building that will be the future home of the ‘Ignition Lab: Powered by 87 & Running’ – a co-working space where these teens will have the support, resources, and opportunity to explore careers in STEM, launch their own entrepreneurial ventures and gain real-world experience,” Kelce wrote in a post on the foundation’s website.
Kelce was inspired to establish the foundation after witnessing in his own upbringing, growing up in a diverse community in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, that many children did not have the same opportunities as he did. When he joined the NFL, he was motivated to help poor children, and his new deal allows him to do so.