PGA TOUR Superstore Assists The Initial Tee and its Chapters...

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PGA TOUR Superstore Assists The Initial Tee and its Chapters...
PGA TOUR Superstore Assists The Initial Tee and its Chapters Improve Participation and Acquire New Donors December Matching Grant Plan Yields $twenty,000 and Yr-Lengthy five% Participation Challenge Introduces four hundred,000 Youth to The Initial Tee In 2015, PGA TOUR Superstore will as soon as once more group up with the PGA TOUR, Inc. and The Initial Tee to encourage development of applications for young individuals in shop marketplaces by continuing the “PGA TOUR Superstore five% Challenge.” In 2014, the “PGA TOUR Superstore five% Challenge,” which challenged eighteen chapters of The Initial Tee to develop the quantity of young individuals attained by five% more than the prior yr, drew much more than 416,000 young individuals to The Initial Tee chapters in their communities. Chapters attained $215,000 in new grants from PGA TOUR Superstore via the challenge. Throughout the thirty day period of December, on-line gifts produced via thefirsttee.org by new donors had been matched 1-to-1, up to $twenty,000, by PGA TOUR Superstore. Much more than $forty five,000 was raised, creating it the greatest complete quantity at any time raised on-line in December. “We are grateful for PGA TOUR Superstore’s ongoing dedication to young individuals all through this nation and moreover their assistance in shop marketplaces,” stated Joe Louis Barrow, Jr., main government officer of The Initial Tee. “They proceed to propel The Initial Tee forward via progressive philanthropic applications, and we search forward to the challenge offered this yr.” In 2015, PGA TOUR Superstore will as soon as once more group up with the PGA TOUR, Inc. and The Initial Tee to encourage development of applications for young individuals in shop marketplaces by continuing the “PGA TOUR Superstore five% Challenge.” In complete, PGA TOUR Superstore, in partnership with The Arthur M. Blank Loved ones Foundation, is pledging much more than $four hundred,000 in grants and incentives in 2015 to proceed increasing options to achieve young individuals who would not in any other case be served via The Initial Tee chapters “PGA TOUR Superstore associates are fired up to aid appeal to new members to The Initial Tee chapters in their communities,” stated Dick Sullivan, President and CEO, PGA TOUR Superstore. “The development method for The Initial Tee chapters implies much more assets keep in the neighborhood local community and much more young individuals reward from the character schooling applications.” “PGA TOUR Superstore five% Challenge” is centered on escalating the quantity of young individuals collaborating in the Existence Expertise Expertise, the system sent by skilled coaches at chapters. Making use of golf as a platform, The Initial Tee aids young individuals find out existence expertise that construct character and give them the self-assurance to make healthful selections. The Initial Tee applications are centered on Nine Core Values: honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, self-assurance, accountability, perseverance, courtesy and judgment. In eighteen of the 23PGA TOUR Superstore marketplaces, The Initial Tee is at present serving young individuals via applications at golf services, in-university via The Initial Tee Nationwide University Plan and right after-university at other youth-centered areas via The Initial Tee Push. Arthur Blank, Chairman of PGA TOUR Superstore and Trustee of The Initial Tee, pledged $1 million to assistance the youth advancement organization’s aim of reaching 10 million further young individuals from 2011 to 2017. Given that 2012, a proportion of the Trustee present to The Initial Tee has been distributed by PGA TOUR Superstore and The Arthur M. Blank Loved ones Foundation to The Initial Tee chapters in several of the PGA TOUR Superstore marketplaces. PGA TOUR Superstore associates assistance The Initial Tee chapters reaching young individuals in East Palo Alto, Atlanta, Chicago, Paramus, Dallas, Delray Seashore, Denver, Myrtle Seashore, Naples, Phoenix, Westbury, Lengthy Island, Irvine, California and Palm Desert, California. In addition to grants, the retailers supply chapter members with entry to condition-of-the-art instructing, club fitting, golf lessons and expertise instruction. The retailers also characteristic visual factors that construct consciousness with their consumers for The Initial Tee’s mission. For much more details about The Initial Tee, pay a visit to www.thefirsttee.org . For much more details about PGA TOUR Superstore, pay a visit to www.pgatoursuperstore.com . About The Initial Tee The Initial Tee ( www.thefirsttee.org ), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth advancement firm whose mission is to effect the lives of young individuals by offering academic applications that construct character, instill existence-boosting values and advertise healthful selections via the recreation of golf. With its residence place of work at Planet Golf Village in St. Augustine, Fla., The Initial Tee reaches young individuals on golf programs, in elementary faculties, at other youth-serving areas and on armed forces installations. Given that its inception in 1997, The Initial Tee has launched the recreation of golf and its values to much more than 10.five million young individuals in all 50 United States and pick global areas. The Initial Tee’s Founding Companions are LPGA, the Masters Match, PGA of The usa, PGA TOUR and the USGA. Shell Oil Organization is The Initial Tee’s Founding Corporate Spouse and Johnson & Johnson is its Legacy Spouse. Former President George W. Bush serves as honorary chair.