Orlando, FL – The Orlando Magic’s Bo Outlaw was named the 2005-2006 winner of the Rich & Helen DeVos Community Enrichment Award Saturday night at the 16th Annual Black Tie & Tennies Charity Gala held at the TD Waterhouse Centre benefiting the Orlando Magic Youth Foundation (OMYF), a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation. This marks the second time Outlaw has won the award (1998-1999 and 2005-2006).
Each year at the Gala, OMYF honors a player who has dedicated his efforts off the court for the purpose of enhancing others’ lives. An anonymous panel of community representatives selects the player. In addition to receiving the award, the player is granted $50,000 from the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation to donate to the charity of his choice.
Bo's motto is "A happy workplace is a better workplace to work in..." and he lives this every day.
Bo is always willing to do whatever it takes to make his team and community a better place. He enjoys speaking with youth to educate them on positive alternatives and lists his favorite job as working at a daycare. In his short five months on the team, his impact on the community has been immeasurable.
Along with his busy game and travel schedule, he always finds time to volunteer and put his personal stamp on each event. Some of Bo Outlaw's activities this season included: handing out candy at the Florida Mall on Halloween, participating in a block party in an Oviedo neighborhood, signing autographs and taking photos with local residents, giving out turkeys and Thanksgiving meals on behalf of the Darrell Armstrong Foundation, assisting County Commissioner Homer Hartage with his Toy Distribution event during the holidays, speaking to kids at the Orange County Juvenile Detention Center about his childhood experiences, and participating in a meet and greet with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, the recipients of his ticket program "Bo's Lil Outlaws", which provides 20 kids per game a chance to see the Magic play.