STAMFORD CT —February 5 2009—WWE is proud to announce WWE Community Champions a program that celebrates youth who display outstanding community spirit. Selected youths will be featured in exclusive WWE videos to appear on WWE.com and WWEKids.com.

With its newest program WWE Community Champions WWE is looking to hear from parents of extraordinary youths and teens grades 1-12 who are giving back to their community whether it’s by helping to rebuild a dilapidated park starting a reading program at school or creating a recycling drive to clean up their city. WWE will review the youths’ stories on how they have made positive changes in their community to share with the WWE Universe™.

WWE Community Champions is the latest addition to WWE’s stable of youth outreach programs. These include Get R.E.A.L. (Respect Education Achievement and Leadership) READ a nation-wide program in which Superstars promote literacy and Circle of Champions a joint effort with the Make-A-Wish® Foundation and other wish-granting agencies. Since 1982 Circle of Champions has brought together WWE Superstars and more than 5 000 youths with life-threatening illnesses across the world.

Parents of youths interested in becoming a WWE Community Champion should submit their stories or videos by mail to WWE Kids Attn: WWE Kids Community Champions 1241 East Main St. Stamford CT 06902 or by email to  CommunityChampions@wwe.com. If WWE chooses to feature a youth’s story he or she may be interviewed by WWE in a video to run on WWE.com and/orWWEKids.com.

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