Steve Nash has played a huge role in the Phoenix community. The Phoenix Suns, led by Nash, teamed up with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to give the Gift of Hearing to more than 100 children and young adults in March of 2009. Nash made a surprise appearance, greeting each of the children before they were fitted for a custom hearing aid valued at $6,000. As a result of his tireless work off the field, Nash was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in the World.

In 2001, Nash created the Steve Nash Foundation, which focuses its resources on underserved populations of children in Arizona, British Columbia and the countries of Paraguay and Uganda.

Nash says, “they [children] need from us now the tools to help them grow. They need from us now those things that will position them to think for themselves and become their own guiding forces that will shape our communities, locally and globally, down the road.”

About Steve Nash

Steve Nash was born in South Africa and grew up in Canada. He attended Santa Clara University and began playing for the Suns in 1996. He spent several years with the Dallas Mavericks (1998-2004) before returning to Phoenix. He has been recognized as one of the best point guards in the NBA, winning the Most Valuable Player award twice (in 2005 and 2006) and being honored as an All Star six times.