Josh Harris and David Blitzer Make Another COVID-19 Donation
This is the third COVID-19 related donation that Josh Harris and David Blitzer have made since Twitter last week bullied them into reversing the decision to implement employee furloughs:
The @NJDevils, and owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer, have stepped up and will be making a direct, and significant, donation to the @RWJBarnabas Health Emergency Response Fund.
This donation will help RWJBarnabas purchase much-needed PPE for its frontline health responders. pic.twitter.com/AdGbQEw077
— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) April 1, 2020
If we’re keeping track, Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment has now done the following pandemic-related things:
- agreed to pay Prudential Center employees during the Coronavirus shutdown
- agreed to pay game night staff who would have worked Sixers games at the Wells Fargo Center
- scrapped the employee furlough plan
- helped purchase 10,000 Chromebooks for the Philadelphia School District
- made a six-figure donation to Philabundance
- made this donation to the RWJBarnabas Health Emergency Response Fund.
That doesn’t include Michael Rubin turning his Easton factory into a mask and gown producing facility, nor does it include the $500k donation from Joel Embiid and organizing of the Philly Pledge program by Ben Simmons.
The Sixers took one massive, negative publicity hit last week but everything else they’ve done since this crisis started has been pretty much spot on.