"If Barb's altruism produces a ripple effect, there's also a snowball effect at work. After her first two Sports Nights - the first featuring a Carolina Panthers roast of Wake Forest product Ricky Proehl, and the second an informative and entertaining discussion among ACC basketball coaches Skip Prosser, Herb Sendek and Bobby Cremins - people and organizations began stepping up to the plate with contributions even before having been asked.
One such contributor was Mark Brazil, director of the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro (next year the Wyndham Championship)."Mark called and said they'd chosen five or six charities they were going to support with outright gifts," she enthused, "and we were one of them.
They'll be gifting $10,000 or more each year for the next ten years, so we've made them our Premier Partner. We have a total of fourteen corporate sponsors now for Sports Night. In fact, this year I had the sponsorship lined up before I even had a celebrity.""
This excerpt was taken from the following link. To read the entire article go to:
http://yesweekly.com/main.asp?SectionID=19&SubSectionID=45&ArticleID=1763&TM=80333.22
Sunday, December 17, 2006
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