The Ovie Mughelli Foundation.
Empowering the next generation of environmental leaders — through sports, education, and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
501(c)(3) · Founded 2009 · 17+ years
Human health and planetary health are connected.
In 2008 I founded ONO Consulting. In 2009 I founded the Foundation. Then my two youngest children were born premature. That experience changed how I thought about everything.
The Foundation's mission tightened — environmental education through sports. STEM and sustainability programming that meets kids where they already pay attention. Comics, characters, AR, game mechanics, athletes they look up to. Goal: reach 20,000 kids a year.
The healthcare work, the environmental work — same source. Different rooms.
What we run.
Gridiron Green.
Comic series with Comics Uniting Nations and UNICEF, teaching the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals through football storytelling. Distributed to schools and community partners.
Green Camps.
STEM + sustainability programming integrated with athletic training. Kids learn environmental science the same way they learn to read a defense — by doing.
Recycle on the Run.
Community engagement built around stadium and event-day activations. Sustainability as participation, not lecture.
Gridiron Green AR.
Augmented-reality companion to the comic series. Where kids already live — phones and screens — turned into a pathway into the SDGs.
The rooms we've been in.
- Comics Uniting Nations · UNICEF — co-publishing partners on Gridiron Green.
- Earth Day Network · League of Conservation Voters — programmatic partners.
- Closing speaker · White House Sports and Sustainability Conference (2012).
- Speaker · U.S. Department of State Sustainability Award Presentation (2015).
- Featured by Sustainable Brands and the Earth Day Network video archive.
Three ways in.
Donate. 501(c)(3) — tax-deductible. Every dollar in is a dollar toward a kid in a Green Camp, a comic in a classroom, or a stadium-day activation that changes how a community thinks about waste.
Partner. Brand and corporate partnerships that fund programs and put logos where they help kids, not where they distract them. We curate the fit.
Host a school visit or camp.Schools, athletic departments, and community organizations — get in touch. We'll co-design the day.