NBA All-Star 2021 to support Direct Relief’s Fund for Health Equity
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Santa Barbara-based Direct Relief will be sharing some of the spotlight Sunday night during the NBA All-Star Game.
This year s All-Star events in Atlanta are expected to raise at least $3 million to support historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), as well as Direct Relief s Fund for Health Equity.
Direct Relief recently established the fund in the wake of last year s resurgence of social justice protests and movements for change.
“I mean, COVID is showing the pressures and [health] disparities that exist,” Direct Relief President and CEO Thomas Tighe said Friday. “The idea for the ‘Fund for Health Equity’ is that as we get through this, if we revert back to the way it was, that’s not good enough.