Row the Boat

Chapter 12The Impact of Row the Boat Beyond Football

P.J. Fleck

 

Helping Families Stay Together

Our players have done and continue to do so much work with the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital that it inspired Heather and me to start the Row the Boat Fleck Family Fund. It is designed to help families stay together and ease their burdens during their stay at the hospital. Our focus is to keep families together as much as possible so the focus can be on their children and their marriage. If the family is united and connected and less stressed, they can better handle the recovery and process in the hospital.

So many stressors come into play when your child is admitted to the hospital: financial stress, siblings' stress, marital stress, physiological stress. The RTB fund covers any cost that families incur staying together so they don't have to leave their child due to financial pressures.

Rowing Together

All our proceeds from any RTB merchandise go right to both Ronald McDonald House and the Row the Boat Fleck Family Fund at the children’s hospital. We didn't create RTB to make money for ourselves. We came up with it to help others get through various storms in their lives and know that they are not alone in their journey. We did it to join forces with certain organizations to help raise more money and awareness for their causes and missions. Our football ...