Both in the regular and the post season games, Senga donates 10,000 yen per 1 strikeout to Orange Ribbon project. Not only he has his new glove embroidered an orange ribbon, he also wears a ribbon badge in public and cooperates in enlightenment of this project. BLF plans and coordinates all this activities, including Orange Ribbon Seminar for the baseball fans.
In the regular games, Yoshida donates 100,000 yen per 1 homerun to KnK (Children without borders) and support saving the poor children in developing countries such as Cambodia, the Philippines, and Bangladesh. BLF plans and coordinates all this activities, including providing the online donation page for baseball fans.
In the regular games, Kakunaka donates 10,000 yen per 1 hit to Ishikawa Prefecture Community Donation and mainly supports the families with the disabled in Ishikawa, his hometown. BLF suggests and coordinates how to use his donation.
We held“BLF Charity Talk 2018”at SPACES in Otemachi, Tokyo. The part of the ticket sales, donation at the photo session with the players, and online donation were all donated to the scholarship program of Japan Foundation to support the college students without parents.
《Players on the talk and photo session》
Tsuyoshi Wada, Shohei Tateyama, Kazuhiro Hatakeyama, Takahiro Norimoto, Kodai Senga, Masataka Yoshida
《Players》
Ryota Arai, Masanori Ishikawa, Hisashi Iwakuma, Koji Uehara, Seiichi Uchikawa, Daichi Osera, Kazuma Okamoto, Tomoaki Kanemoto, Yusei Kikuchi, Takumi Kuriyama, Masashi Kuwahara, Taketoshi Goto, Tetsuya Kokubo, Taisuke Kondo, Ryosuke Kikuchi, Hirokazu Sawamura, Kodai Senga, Yuki Nishi, Takahiro Norimoto, Yoshihisa Hirano, Kazuki Yabuta, Taisuke Yamaoka, Hotaka Yamakawa, Masataka Yoshida, Ryota Wakiya, Hideaki Wakui, Tsuyoshi Wada, Naoto Watanabe, Mookie Betts
《Balance》
●All amount of winning bid: 2,040,158 yen
●Expenses: System fee for Yahoo! 142,791 yen/deputizing fee 82,000 yen/others 204,015 yen
●Profit: 1,611,352 yen
《Use of profit》
●Donation for Kumamoto Prefecture (assistance of reconstruction after the earthquake)…805,676 yen
●BLF action fee for supporting baseball players charitable activities…805,676 yen
《Players》
Shogo Akiyama, Alex Ramirez, Ryota Arai, Takuro Ishii, Akinori Iwamura, Koji Uehara, Seiichi Uchikawa, Daichi Ohsera, Masayuki Kakefu, Tomoaki Kanemoto, Ryosuke Kikuchi, Takumi Kuriyama, Taketoshi Goto, Kazumi Saito, Hirokazu Sawamura, Seiya Suzuki, Ginjiro Sumitani, Kazunari Tsuruoka, Yuhei Nakamura, Toshihisa Nishi, Fumiya Nishiguchi, Shinjiro Hiyama, Kenta Maeda, Daisuke Miura, Yuki Yanagita, Masataka Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Wada
《Balance》
●All amount of winning bid: 1,778,599 yen
●Expenses: System fee for Yahoo! 124,502 yen/deputizing fee 88,000 yen/others177,860 yen
●Profit: 1,388,237 yen
《Use of profit》
●Donation for Kumamoto Prefecture (assistance of reconstruction after the earthquake)…694,119 yen
●BLF action fee including supports for the disabled in sports and in employment…the rest
《Players》
Shogo Akiyama, Alex Ramirez, Hirokazu Ibata, Koji Uehara, Yoshio Itoi, Ryota Imanari, Hisashi Iwakuma, Minoru Iwata, Seiichi Uchikawa, Kenji Otonari, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Yuki Karakawa, Kentaro Kyuko, Yuki Kuniyoshi, Clay Buchholz, Hirokazu Sawamura, Yosuke Shimabukuro, Hisanori Takahashi, Toshihisa Nishi, Daisuke Miura, Yuki Yanagita, Shun Yamaguchi, Takeshi Yamasaki, Tsuyoshi Wada
《Balance》
●All amount of winning bid: 1,208,169 yen
●Expenses: System fee for Yahoo! 65,491 yen/deputizing fee 120,817 yen/others120,817 yen
●Profit: 901,044 yen
《Use of profit》
●Donation for Make A Wish of Japan…100,000 yen
●Purchase of repaired baseballs for employment support of the disabled…100,000 yen
●Donation for Japan Wheelchair Softball Association…100,000 yen
●BLF action fee to support players’ charitable activities…the rest
-Donated 694,119 yen for Kumamoto Prefecture
-Donated 250,000 yen for NGO Peace Winds Japan for Kumamoto emergency assistance
-Donated 100,000 yen to Japan Wheelchair Softball Association
-Volunteering and sponsoring Lions Cup Wheelchair Softball event
-Sales of charity t-shirts to donate the part of revenue to the adapted sports and athlete.
-100,000 yen purchase of the repaired baseballs for the wage of the disabled.
-Supporting Yoshimi’s Again Ball Project.