New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and his wife, Abby, have pledged $1 million to the Children's of Mississippi $100 million capital campaign.

The Mannings will also lend their names and faces for publicity for the campaign and will serve as honorary chairs on the campaign fundraising committee. The goal of the project is to expand and update the neonatal intensive care unit, add more pediatric ICU rooms and surgical suites, create an imaging department just for children and expand the outpatient clinic so that care can be centralized and more convenient for families at the Batson Children's Hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

It’s not the first time the Mannings will donate their time and money to the University of Mississippi Medical Center. They donated and helped raise $2.5 million in partnership with the Friends of Children's Hospital to open the Eli Manning Children's Clinics at Batson Children's Hospital. The clinics opened in 2009.

Eli and Abby Manning both attended Ole Miss and have remained close to the area.

Eli Manning said he doesn't like cameras to be around when he's visiting children in the hospital. Bill Kostroun/AP Photo

Eli Manning was a finalist for the NFL Man of the Year in large part because of his efforts in helping fight childhood cancer and improving pediatric care.

He explained earlier this year why he’s so active in the community.

"Sometimes the community relations people with the Giants want to send a camera because they really want me to be up for the Walter Payton Man of the Year. They need footage and I don't want that; that's not the point. I'm not doing it to try to get an award; that's not what I'm up for,” Manning said. "Sometimes you walk into the room and an eight-year old boy sees a camera, he's not going to say anything. He's nervous, he doesn't feel well -- that's not what he wants.

"I really would rather go in and just have a conversation or have a talk or see if I can lift his spirits and get him to laugh. If he's excited -- if he is Giants fan or fan of me, let him show that excitement rather than be nervous for that environment."

"I'm not doing it for show. I don't know if a clinic is in the works in this area. I kind of have been working with Hackensack and just ask them what they need. What do they want, what are they looking for, and how can I help out?"

Despite on-field accomplishments and honors for Eli and Peyton Manning, their father, Archie, said at the Super Bowl that’s not what he’s most proud of from his sons.

"I'm sitting here with a son who is going to play in the Super Bowl, but I'm telling you, as a parent, [off the field] is their finest hour,” Archie Manning said. “Their finest play is what they're doing there. Their mother, their brothers, myself, we're proud of them for what they've done for football, but more so for what they've done there."