Wyndham Championship Charity Spotlight

The 2009 Wyndham Championship is proud to support the charities listed to below:

Victory Junction Gang Camp
www.victoryjunction.org/
Founded by Kyle and Pattie Petty, in honor of their son Adam, Victory Junction Gang Camp proudly opened its doors in June of 2004. After participating in a motorcycle ride to Camp Boggy Creek in Florida in 1999, the Petty family felt inspired to build a camp in North Carolina. The Victory Junction Gang Camp enriches the lives of children with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses by providing life-changing camping experiences that are exciting, fun, and empowering, in a safe and medically sound environment. Victory Junction Gang Camp operates solely on the donations of corporations, organizations and individuals. Children that attend Victory Junction would not otherwise be able to attend a camp because of their medical needs. Victory Junction is a year-round camp that serves children, ages 7 to 15, with a variety of health issues. During the summer the camp offers week-long disease-specific sessions with up to 125 kids per session. During the fall, winter and spring the camp offers family weekends with up to 32 families per weekend.

The International Civil Rights Center and Museum
www.sitinmovement.org/
Over 45 years ago, four young students from North Carolina A&T State University sat down at the "whites only" lunch counter in the F. W. Woolworth's store on Elm Street in Greensboro - and started a nationwide trend of sit-ins. Their action was meant to draw attention to the challenges that African Americans faced in gaining equality in everyday life. The International Civil Rights Center and Museum is dedicated to the memory of not only those young men who started a national phenomenon and played an integral role in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, but is also the time in our history. The museum will provide future generations with an opportunity to learn about a tumultuous time in our nation's history - at one of the pivotal places of the civil rights movement.

Boys and Girls Club of Greater High Point
www.hpclubs.org/index.php
Incorporated in 1998, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater High Point began operations in January of 1999. The mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. Any boy or girl age six through 18 can be a member of the Boys & Girls Clubs, with absolutely no other requirements for membership. Annual membership dues are set at $2 so that any young person can join regardless of socioeconomic background. More than 80 percent of club members live at or below the poverty level, more than 70 percent come from single parent households, and more than 80 percent do not belong to or use the services of other youth agencies. These demographics represent the youth and the issues that the Boys & Girls Clubs programs are designed to impact.

The Crosby Scholars Community Partnership
www.crosbyscholars.org/index1.aspx
The Crosby Scholars Community Partnership works to provide middle and high school students and their families in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County area prepare for success in college and success in life. By requiring students to maintain a certain level of academic achievement, to stay drug free, to give back to the community through volunteerism, and to provide leadership development training, financial aid counseling and job shadowing experiences, the Partnership has been working for over 10 years to provide a better future for the students selected for this program. The partnership provides assistance to over 2,000 students every year.

Autism Society of North Carolina
www.autismsociety-nc.org/
The Autism Society of North Carolina’s primary focus is advocacy. The first statewide effort in the country to obtain services for people with autism began in North Carolina when parents involved with the Autism Society of North Carolina advocated with the legislature for funding of a comprehensive statewide clinical program for people with autism. As a result of those efforts, the Legislature provided funding for the establishment of Division TEACCH at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 1970. Since its inception, the Autism Society of North Carolina has also advocated for appropriate classroom and educational options for children with autism, individualized community-based programs, the inclusion of autism in developmental disabilities program funding and a variety of other measures such as increased residential and vocational options for people with autism spectrum disorders. Currently, the Society employs twelve parent advocates, including a bilingual (Spanish/English) advocate and a Director of Advocacy throughout the state.

Goodwill Industries of Central North Carolina
www.triadgoodwill.org/
Since 1963, Goodwill Industries of Central North Carolina, Inc. has built partnerships within the community to meet the needs of people with disabilities and other barriers to employment. Through these partnerships and the commitment of our consumers to succeed, Goodwill Industries is able to provide vocational evaluation, training, employment and job-placement services. The sale of donated goods in Goodwill retail stores remains the greatest source of funding for the services Goodwill provides. Store sales and the community donations that drive them are crucial to Goodwill’s ability to provide quality education and training programs. Eighty-four percent of all store sales goes straight back into funding the programs and services Goodwill offers to the community. Other major sources of funding include industrial and service contract work, rehabilitation service fees, government and private grants, public support and salvage sales.

American Junior Golf Association (ACE Grant)
www.ajga.org/
The goal of the ACE Grant program is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps fulfill the AJGA’s mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. As an organization dedicated to the development of young men and women in their pursuit of college golf scholarships through competitive play, the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) has a strong history of success. By promoting the game of golf through more than 50 junior tournaments a year and donations to grassroots golf organizations in the area of these tournaments, the AGJA continues to make a lasting impression on the future of the sport of golf. The ACE Grant program provides financial aid to juniors who have the ability to play in AJGA events but lack the financial resources.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Central North Carolina
www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NCC/index.aspx
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society works to help alleviate the plight of multiple sclerosis in the United States. Through local events such as the Tour to Tanglewood, the Greenway Trial 5K and Fun Run, the MS Walk and the annual Dinner of Champions, the society raises funds for research and awareness about multiple sclerosis. The Central North Carolina Chapter serves over 2100 people living with multiple sclerosis in central North Carolina. This Chapter provides a variety of programs for people with MS, their families, and medical professionals. With fundraising efforts, the Central North Carolina Chapter contributes funds to promote research that aids in the search for the cause and a cure for MS. Remaining funds raised are used to support our local programs for those with MS within the Chapter's 15-county area. Our Chapter area includes the following counties: Alamance, Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes and Yadkin.

Mackay Foundation for Cancer Research
www.mackayfoundation.org/
The MacKay Foundation of Cancer Research raises money to benefit a variety of cancers, but primarily bone marrow transplant, leukemia and hematology research at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Section on Hematology and Oncology through our four annual fundraising events. Since our first tournament held in 1994, the Bob MacKay Memorial Golf Tournament, now in it's 15th year, the MacKay Foundation for Cancer Research has gifted over $800,000 to WFUSM, supporting important and ongoing cancer research while ensuring that new research projects have the seed funding to move forward. WFUSM has established the Bob MacKay Memorial Endowment Fund to support the Bone Marrow Transplant Program. Our mission statement: "It is our desire to make a difference in the lives of our family, friends and co-workers who have been touched by cancer." With no paid staff and virtually no overhead, the greatest amount of the money raised will be used to ensure that our "dream" is realized - to find better and more effective cancer treatments and hopefully, one day, a cure for cancer.