Taylor Swift donated a whopping $250,000 to ‘Operation Breakthrough’, an organization that Travis Kelce has been a supporter of for the past decade.
Operation Breakthrough is a nonprofit that provides programs and quality child care for children of the working poor.
The money from Swift will be divided between three programs: the workforce development and entrepreneurship program which includes 10 labs where kids can learn industry trades, the before and after school program which provides child care services for families when school is not in session, and the early learners program.
About a week before Christmas, Mary Esselman got a call from Taylor Swift’s team. The singer wanted to donate a quarter of a million dollars to the Kansas City organization Esselman manages, Operation Breakthrough.
“Our kids were pretty excited,” the CEO says. “We asked them if they wanted to do a little thank you, and you could see we had a lot of enthusiastic participants.”
The kids of Operation Breakthrough — a nonprofit that provides programs and quality child care for children of the working poor — created a one-minute video thanking the superstar for her $250,000 donation.
“Thank you, Taylor,” one girl says while holding a hand heart to start the video.
The money from Swift will be divided between three programs: the workforce development and entrepreneurship program which includes 10 labs where kids can learn industry trades, the before and after school program which provides child care services for families when school is not in session, and the early learners program.
“We have 432 students, birth to 5 year olds who are there every day for early care and education,” Esselman says about the early learners program. “Our goal is to make sure every child enters school ready.”
It was the end of a decade
Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce has been an advocate and financial supporter of Operation Breakthrough for the past 10 years. His first visit to the campus came shortly after Esselman took the reins as CEO.
” He came for Read Across America Day,” she says. “He was reading to some of the preschool classrooms … and he just kept coming back.”
In a YouTube video posted by the Kansas City Star, the tight end sports his Chiefs’ jersey and a red-and-white stovepipe hat while reading Dr. Seuss’ “Cat in the Hat.”
