Due to a large number of high schools across the country that lacked access to an AED on their campus, the NFHS Foundation Board of Directors felt strongly that this situation posed a serious health and safety risk to students, coaches, fans, etc. Therefore, the NFHS Foundation established a goal of providing one AED to each high school that did not currently have one on campus. In 2018, the NFHS Foundation Board approved funds to purchase 600 AEDs for high schools across the United States and shipped them out in early 2019.
