For the fifteenth yr, poker professional and media character Bernard Lee celebrated the vacation season by offering for kids and households experiencing homelessness within the Boston space.
In 2025, Lee and his household personalized reward packages to 30 kids who had been a part of 20 households experiencing homelessness within the Boston space. This annual vacation charitable initiative delivers personalized packages to every baby that embrace winter clothes, books, toys, video games, sports activities tools, artwork provides, and a stuffed animal.
“For the previous 15 years, my youngsters and I’ve celebrated our household vacation custom with The Full Home Charity Program. From the start, my youngsters helped arrange and select presents for this system’s kids. Now that my very own kids are adults, they each love persevering with the household custom,” acknowledged Lee. “This yr, we’re so happy to be celebrating our fifteenth yr of The Full Home Charity Program. Each vacation season for the previous decade and a half, we’ve got totally loved creating the customized packages and delivering these presents to the youngsters. For the previous 10 years, we’ve got been so privileged to have partnered with Household Help to make our program a real success.”
Lee and his kids spend dozens of hours personally organizing every personalized vacation bundle developed from every baby’s want lists. Lee was happy to as soon as once more be a part of forces with FamilyAid as this yr marked a particular anniversary for his or her decade-long partnership.
“FamilyAid is grateful to Bernard Lee and his kids for once more offering vacation presents to the youngsters in our shelters. Their generosity comes at a time when households are dealing with extra challenges than ever in assembly their fundamental wants and securing secure housing. Households inform us day-after-day that offering vacation presents is daunting, if not inconceivable,” stated FamilyAid President Larry Seamans. “Because of Bernard and his household, kids in our care may have presents, and much more, pleasure on the holidays, and oldsters will likely be relieved to see their kids’s happiness. We can not thank the Lee Household sufficient for his or her persevering with generosity and compassion over the previous decade.”
Lee launched his Full Home Charity Program in February of 2011 and has since supplied nicely over $100,000 value of products and funds to children-focused organizations in New England. This system has helped over 550 households and 900 kids throughout its decade and a half historical past.
Outdoors of poker, Lee has turn into an avid pickleball participant/teacher and captured the Nationwide Championship on the 2023 Nationwide Senior Video games, 2024 Massachusetts Senior Video games, and lately the 2025 Rhode Island Senior Video games.
Be taught extra about Bernard Lee’s pickleball adventures right here!
Lee’s Son Made Nationwide Headlines in 2025
In February 2025, Lee’s son placed on a taking pictures clinic throughout a UMass ladies’s basketball sport halftime contest that paid the school pupil $10,000. Or, it ought to have.
Noam Lee had 30 seconds to make a layup, free-throw, three-pointer, after which a half-court shot to win the cash. He not solely did that, however he additionally made all 4 pictures with time to spare. The sparse crowd contained in the Mullins Middle in Amherst, Massachusetts, erupted after the ultimate shot went by the web. Josh Schreiber, a good friend of the presumed winner, shared a video of all of it on X.
Sadly, organizers initially refused to pay out, saying Noam’s foot was on the road. Ethan “Rampage” Yau, a preferred poker vlogger and WPT World ambassador, caught wind of the scenario that occurred at his alma mater. The high-stakes poker participant referred to the ruling as a “rip-off,” and generously supplied to offer Lee a few of his personal cash.
“As a UMass grad, that is fairly lame. Can somebody get me in contact with the winner, I’ll give him 5K. After I was in school, profitable even 1K would’ve been year-changing for me. You may’t rip-off school college students like this,” Yau tweeted.
Thanks largely to public strain, Noam did obtain the five-figure payout.
*Pictures courtesy of Bernard Lee.
Chad Holloway
PR & Media Supervisor
