Notre Dame’s Weis Gives Back

University of Notre Dame head football coach Charlie Weis recently attended a celebrity dinner to help fund raise for a local chapter of Volunteers for America. Although Weis gets an offer to attend charity functions about every other day, the Fighting Irish coach has very little time to lend to such organizations. He is forced to pick only a select few engagements throughout the year, and this past weekend he donated his tome to VoA.

Giving to charities has been a part of Charlie Weis’ life for a long time. Charlie Weis and his wife Maura have co-founded the organization known as “Hannah and Friends,” a group dedicated to helping families with developmentally disabled children. The Weis’ daughter, Hannah, suffers from developmental disorders.

Said Weis, “We have enough money to take care of Hannah. But we’ve seen so many people with special needs that just have crummy lives, that my wife talked me into starting a charity called ‘Hannah & Friends.”

Though buying Notre Dame Fighting Irish tickets at StubHub.com doesn’t necessarily help disadvantaged youths, it will help improve the notoriety and value of signed Notre Dame memorabilia, which is often times auctioned off at charity dinners. So in a way, it helps.

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