VanVleet’s charity activities in Rockford include annual turkey giveaways for Thanksgiving and handing out back-to-school supplies. He also has give-backs in Wichita, where he starred in college, and his NBA home of Toronto. He passed out more than 1,000 backpacks to underprivileged kids in Toronto last year ago. He also started the Fred VanVleet Scholarship Fund to provide full academic scholarships to Black or indigenous students who pursue a college degree in Canada.