NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION

Denver

News: Peyton Manning, one of the best quarterbacks in National Football League history, will be honored Thursday night at the Denver Evening of Tribute, a gala benefiting the Denver chapter of the Navy SEAL Foundation.

Manning, whose 18 seasons in the NFL included four with the Denver Broncos, is to receive the Fire in the Gut Award at the event chaired by Sharon Magness Blake and Ernie Blake and held at Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, which is located at 7711 E. Academy Blvd. in Denver.

Festivities include a 5:30 p.m. social hour, followed by dinner, remarks by retired Navy SEAL Vice Admiral Robert S. Harward Jr. and a special performance by award-winning vocalist Lee Greenwood.

Harward also was deputy commander of the United States Central Command under General James Mattis.

Manning, a 2021 inductee to the NFL Hall of Fame, also is one of the biggest givers in the league. His Peyback Foundation, founded in 1999, provides leadership and growth opportunities for at-risk children and a donation to St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis was so significant that its children’s wing was renamed in his honor. In addition, Manning endowed scholarships at six historically Black colleges and universities.

Sponsors for the Denver Evening of Tribute include Jacqueline and Kenneth Brody, the Thomas S. and Mary K. Bagley Foundation, Roger and Meredith Hutson, Sue and Harvey Allon, the MDC/Richmond American Homes Foundation and Michelle Sie Whitten.

To purchase tickets or receive sponsorship information, call 303-782-5000 or email stephanie@morevents.com.

About the organization: The Navy SEAL Foundation supports SEALS and their families by filling the gaps in coverage that are outside the scope of the Department of Defense or the Veterans Administration.

Website: navysealfoundation.org/denver/

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