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Favre established the Brett Favre Fourward Foundation in 1996. In conjunction with his annual golf tournament, celebrity softball game and fundraising dinners, the foundation has donated more than $2&nbsp;million to charities in his home state of Mississippi as well as to those in his adopted state of Wisconsin.<ref name="FourwardFoundation">{{Cite web |title=The Brett Favre Fourward Foundation |url=http://www.officialbrettfavre.com/fourward_foundation/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823134751/http://www.officialbrettfavre.com/fourward_foundation/ |archive-date=August 23, 2007 |access-date=February 7, 2007 |website=officialbrettfavre.com}}</ref>
 
Favre is involved with youth who are ill. Favre was awarded the ''Chris Greicius Celebrity Award'' from the [[Make a Wish Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bedard |first=Greg A. |date=December 7, 2007 |title=A nice Favre moment |url=http://archive.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/31890729.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521043544/https://archive.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/31890729.html |archive-date=May 21, 2022 |access-date=May 26, 2020 |website=archive.jsonline.comMilwaukee Journal Sentinel}}</ref> He is also known to respond to requests made to his foundation regarding youth with serious illnesses such as cancer.{{Citation needed |date=March 2018}}
 
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