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Michael Jordan has made the largest individual monetary contribution to Hurricane Florence recovery efforts with a $2 million donation.
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Jordan, who was raised in Wilmington, N.C., donated the money to the American Red Cross and the Foundation for the Carolinas’ Hurricane Florence Response Fund, with each organization receiving $1 million.
“You gotta take care of home,” Jordan told The Associated Press. “I know all of those places. Wilmington, Fayetteville, Myrtle Beach, New Bern, and Wallace, which is where my father is from. So quite naturally it hits home, and I felt like I had to act in a sense that this is my home.”
Jordan said he still has a lot of family members and friends who live in coastal North Carolina.
“It makes you think about the path that you have taken, and where your life has taken…
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