Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum is donating $170,000 to COVID-19 relief efforts.

McCollum with give $70,000 to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area to help with meal distribution, staff retention, virtual counseling and other programming for children and families. McCollum has a long history of supporting the Boys and Girls Clubs of Portland. In 2016, he worked with the Boys and Girls Clubs to open the CJ McCollum Dream Center, a learning room for local children.

McCollum will also donate $100,000 to the Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank. That money is expected to provide 400,000 meals to families in McCollum’s hometown of Canton, Ohio and other towns in Stark and Tuscarawas counties.

Earlier this week, Blazers guard Damian Lillard announced that he was donating $100,000 to the Blazers’ COVID-19 relief fund to support local non-profit organizations that have been impacted by the coronavirus crisis.

-- Jamie Goldberg | jgoldberg@oregonian.com | @jamiebgoldberg

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