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Hello, communicators:

The Seattle Mariners baseball team has announced that its nonprofit, Mariners Care, will present community impact grants to organizations that are working to improve physical and mental health for kids from Black, Indigenous and other communities of color (BIPOC). The grants are part of a $1 million program that the baseball team announced last July to award organizations that are “focused on sustainable and strategic change to systems that have historically impacted the ability of BIPOC communities to thrive,” according to the press release.

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