Golf Tournament Raises Funds for Goodwill

CAPE CORAL, Fla. - June 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida’s fifth annual golf fundraiser was held May 16 at Coral Oaks Golf Course in Cape Coral. 116 players put on their golfing shoes for the event, which raised $15,664 in gross proceeds to benefit the agency’s programs and services.

“I look forward to the Goodwill golf event every year to see lots of familiar faces from the community. There’s no better way to support the Goodwill mission and the services they provide to Southwest Florida,” says golfer Jeremy Fioravanti, of C1 Bank. “As an added bonus, Goodwill fully supports you buying as many mulligans as you like!”

Contests, raffles, and games were all featured during the tournament including a hole-in-one contest that offered a vacation to Hawaii.

Another contest was the Fuzzy Dice Game, which gave players a chance to roll a die in order to move to a closer tee-off point. The Fuzzy Dice Game was run by Florida Sled Hockey Association coach Ron Robichaud and some of the team’s players. The team, which is comprised of athletes with physical disabilities and is sponsored by Goodwill, was able to raise over $490 during the tournament.

Goodwill’s Pathways program participants were also on the green hosting the Marshmallow Drive game. For a donation to the program, golfers were given the opportunity to drive a marshmallow down the fairway. The golfers who got the two longest drives received original artwork made by the Pathway participants. Pathways to Opportunity is an adult skills day training program that is held at the Goodwill Opportunity Center. The program raised $353 during the tournament.

Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida, Inc. is committed to assisting people with disabilities and disadvantages by providing life-changing opportunities to independence.. In 2014, Goodwill assisted nearly 40,000 individuals in Southwest Florida. Supported programs include Job-Link employment resource centers, Goodwill housing for income-sensitive individuals, L.I.F.E. Academy, and the Southwest Florida MicroEnterprise program. For more information about Goodwill’s programs in Southwest Florida, please visit http://www.goodwillswfl.org.

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