The WUSA's Washington Freedom, through its "Brass Across RFK" partnership, a joint campaign between the Freedom and DC101, raised $26,170 through individual donations and an online "Brauction" for the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University.
Proceeds from the PGA Tour's Buick Classic will benefit Maria Fereri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, the Junior Leagues of West-chester, the New York United Hospital Medical Center and The First Tee of Metropolitan New York. Since 1967, the Buick Classic has donated more than $31 million to the local community.
The Philadelphia Kixx of the Major Indoor Soccer League named one player as the Oki Output Player of the Game. In return, Mount Laurel, N.J.-based Oki Data Americas Inc. made a $100 donation to the "Oki Printers-for-Schools Program."
Detroit Lions quarterback Joey Harrington plans to create a limited-edition offering of sports memorabilia from a 10-story-tall banner hung in New York City during the 2001 football season to help fund scholarships for students at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business. Pieces of the banner, donated to the campaign by the Oregon athletic department, will be incorporated into memorabilia and sold to a limited number of collectors.
The Spring Charity Golf Classic, held at the Sonnenalp Resort in Vail, Colo., donated more than $100,000 to nonprofit organizations throughout the country.
The Major League Baseball Tomorrow Fund awarded $32,339.10 to Boston's All Dorchester Sports League, which will go toward the purchase of equipment and uniforms to benefit 260 youths.
The American Le Mans Series named the ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation as its official charity.
Gary Player hosted the seventh annual Gary Player Invitational at the Floridian, Wayne Huizenga's private course. Proceeds were donated to the Gary Player Foundation, which provides education to underprivileged children.
Former St. Louis Rams wide receiver and kick returner Yo Murphy hosted a charity golf tournament and a football camp and cheerleading clinic in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Money raised from the golf tournament allows the Yo Murphy Foundation to offer hundreds of local youths the opportunity to participate in the football camp and cheerleading clinic free of charge.
The Miami Heat awarded $10,000 in scholarships to four graduating high school seniors to use toward their college education. The four Miami-area seniors received $2,500 each after being selected from more than 400 applicants.
Race Fans for a Cure, a charitable initiative comprising Ford Credit, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and Dale and Kelley Jarrett, raised $12,133.48 in four days at the Ford Centennial Celebration. The program has raised $46,594.17 so far this year, and more than $315,000 since 2000 for the Komen Foundation.
The Belmont Ball, a black-tie affair hosted by the New York Racing Association at Sarasota Springs, N.Y., raised more than $175,000 for the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, which is funding 19 research projects at 11 universities throughout North America for research on the health and welfare of horses.
Proceeds from the PGA Tour's 100th Western Open presented by Golf Digest will benefit the Evans Scholars Foundation. Evans Scholars provides college scholarships to deserving golf caddies.
Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. is partnering with the NFL Players Association to bring the "Heavy Duty Helping" program to Habitat for Humanity projects.
The Olive Garden restaurant chain brought its "Drive Against Hunger" to Road Atlanta. The program provides a family identified by the Second Harvest Food Bank with a free meal for every lap a driver of Team Olive Garden's Ferrari finished in an American Le Mans Series race.
The Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation recently presented area youths with prizes, a pizza party and a tour of Alltel Stadium to celebrate success in the organization's Playbooks program, a reading initiative in partnership with the greater Jacksonville library systems.
Former Minnesota Twin Kent Hrbek and his wife, Jeanie, were honored at the Wheaties Dinner of Champions for their work raising money to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. The Hrbeks have raised more than $2 million for the cause since Kent Hrbek's father died of the disease in 1982.
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