On January 8, 2005, Mr. Rivera went to the Hillside Auto Mall car dealership in Hillside, New Jersey for a tsunami relief event.

It was a VIP reception with about 50 kids, who were drawn from a raffle to buy a $100 ticket (with 100% of the ticket price going to charity) to attend the event to meet Mariano Rivera. All proceeds went to charity. In all, $6,000 was raised through the tickets, donations and a private auction. Mariano pledged to match whatever was raised, so that bumped it up to a grand total of $12,000, which was then donated to UNICEF.

Thank you to Mr. Liebler for passing along these details.