Join us on the Sports Philanthropy Podcast as host Roy Kessel speaks with Amy Hever of the MLB Players Trust. In this fifth episode of the podcast’s seventh season, Amy shares how her love for sports developed as a young woman, her experiences creating sustainable change in North Philadelphia with the 76ers, and how the MLB Players Trust is helping the MLB players leverage their influence for good.

my Hever, is an accomplished social impact executive with more than 20 years of progressive experience delivering measurable results to nonprofit and for-profit companies, across a range of industries. Her career journey has given her the opportunity to lean into some of the world’s most pressing and complex challenges through a variety of vehicles the arts and humanities, youth development, health and human services, disaster recovery, scientific research, and professional sports philanthropy. 

Originally hailing from NJ, Amy grew up in the Garden State and in Tokyo, Japan. After receiving her bachelor’s in History and East Asian Studies from Binghamton University in NY, she accepted her first role as the General Manager position with a German-toy company with a subsidiary office in Palm Beach County, Florida. Her affinity for the Sunshine State took hold, along with her interest in the social sector. Amy made Palm Beach County home for more than 12 years on and off, landing her first nonprofit role with the Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens. Her career has brought her to destinations up and down the I-95 corridor, including the American Red Cross of the Palm Beaches, Scripps Research Institute and the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum here in Florida, as well as the distinguished Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, before making yet another transition into sports philanthropy with the Philadelphia 76ers and the NJ Devils. She now leads the Major League Baseball Players Trust – the charitable arm of the Players Association. Her first “union job”, Amy is responsible for accelerating and amplifying the charitable interests and efforts of professional baseball player

MLB Players Trust

The MLB Players Trust is dedicated to working with MLB players to build their legacies in the communities they care about for the causes they believe in. Driven by Players and inspired by the game, we provide programs and resources that champion their individual and collective passions towards a common goal:  

Making a positive impact on the world and inspiring others to do the same.  

0:43 – The genesis of Amy’s love for sports

2:43 – How team sports shaped Amy after she returned from Japan

4:12 – The joy of sports and Amy’s lifelong passion for them

5:22 – Putting passion into action and how Amy became involved in the non-profit world

8:49 – An entrepreneurial style of change and making a sustainable/tangible difference in Northern Philadelphia

11:20  – Targeting the youth and creating a new court for an impoverished community in Philadelphia

15:01 – How Amy became involved with the MLB Players Trust

19:05 – What is the MLB Players Trust?

22:12 – How does the MLB Players Trust help MLB players make a difference?

22:51 – How is the MLB Players Trust partnering with Trevor Williams to make a difference?

28:54 – What would Amy do to make women’s baseball bigger and more known?

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