Cleveland Browns players, Donte Whitner, Jabaal Sheard and Quentin Groves share their life experiences to students at Ginn Academy

Ginn Academy high school students got to feel the jersey of Cleveland Browns defensive back Donte Whitner as Whitner, Jabaal Sheard and Quentin Groves shared their life experiences May 7, 2014 with the Ginn Academy students. The Cleveland Browns Foundation is having an auction and radiothon next week with ESPN 850 WKNR radio to raise money for its education efforts that include the partnership with Ginn Academy to help provide additional life coaches for the all-male public high school.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Have a "chalk talk" with Browns coach Mike Pettine to help potential high school dropouts have counseling from life coaches.

Buy a film session with General Manager Ray Farmer to help infants and toddlers learn more before kindergarten.

Or win the bidding to fly to Buffalo on the Browns' team charter to see them play against the Bills, with proceeds helping Cleveland kids have social services and tutoring in their school.

The Cleveland Browns Foundation is hoping to raise at least $100,000 for these and other youth and education causes next week through an online auction and 28-hour radiothon on ESPN 850 WKNR radio. The station has planned 28 straight hours of Browns coverage starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9 and running through the auction's end at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

During that time, WKNR hosts and several Browns players and officials will talk on air about the team, as well as about the needs of youth in the community and the team's efforts to work with them.

Radio guests from the Browns training facility in Berea will include: Pettine, Farmer, Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, Cleveland Browns Foundation President Dee Haslam and Browns President Alec Scheiner.

The online auction is open now and reachable HERE. A full list of items is below.

It's the first major fundraising effort this year by the Browns Foundation, said foundation Vice President Renee Harvey. Fundraisers will continue with 50/50 raffles at home games during the season.

"The radiothon really serves as our first new fundraising tool," Harvey said. "The more we raise, the more we can give back to the community."

Harvey said that since the team split its community relations work and foundation efforts apart last year, the foundation has been working on plans to better help the youth of the area.

Last year, she said, the foundation identified a few key programs and schools to start supporting. Those are:

Ginn Academy: Ginn is an all-male high school on Cleveland's East Side that has received national attention for helping at-risk teens stay in school and graduate. Harvey said the Browns Foundation decided last year to give Ginn $65,000 to help pay for life coaches for students.

Walton School: This school serving students from kindergarten through eighth grade on Cleveland's West Side was named one of 13 struggling "Investment Schools" last spring that the Cleveland Municipal School District targeted for extra attention to improve.

That attention includes a partnership with the United Way of Greater Cleveland to attach a social service agency to each of the schools and hire someone to work in the school full-time to find services, tutoring and after-school programs for kids. The Browns Foundation donated $35,000 to the United Way to pay a third of the annual costs for that school, Harvey said.

The Foundation also donated tickets as incentives to students and families and is working on other ways to help over the next two school years.

2,000 Days: The Browns Foundation last year gave $65,000 to the Centers For Families and Children in Cleveland for this early childhood program. The 2,000 Days pledge between parents and teachers is to treat each of the 2,000 days between birth and entering kindergarten as an important day of growth for each child. The Centers encourage and guide parents in finding quality early childhood programs for their children.

Harvey said the Foundation also pays for two $10,000 scholarships each year for Cleveland students going to college, as well as for an "adaptive football" program for students with disabilities.

According to a list provided by the Browns, auction items include: