The Nantucket Children\u2019s Charity Classic raised over $9 million during its 25th anniversary event earlier this month.\u00a0The money raised from the Children\u2019s Classic supports island families and children and is the sole annual fundraiser for the\u00a0Nantucket Golf Club Foundation (NGCF), which has spent over two decades investing in organizations and initiatives that directly benefit the Nantucket’s youth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis 25th anniversary is an extraordinary milestone, not simply because of what was raised this year, but because of what this community has accomplished together over the past quarter century,\u201d said Tom Bresette, executive director of the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation, in a press release. \u201cThe generosity of our members, donors, sponsors, volunteers and supporters continues to make a profound and lasting difference in the lives of Nantucket\u2019s children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since its inception, the foundation has awarded grants to over 100 Nantucket nonprofit organizations serving children, and supported 150 students through its scholarship programs. At the direction of the Club’s Board of Directors, with an eye toward growing need and a growing scholarship commitment, the foundation has also built a strong endowment to ensure long-term sustainability and sustained community impact. <\/p>\n
At the Charity Classic\u2019s dinner and auction, attendees viewed a film that put the Club’s impact at center stage. It was produced by Yellow Productions, highlighting scholarship and grant recipients whose lives and organizations have been touched by the NGCF. Through their stories, the film offered a powerful look at the tangible impact of the Foundation\u2019s work and the reach of the generosity behind the Children\u2019s Charity Classic.<\/p>\n
Building on that legacy, Bresette announced a significant new commitment from the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation of $1 million to Nantucket Cottage Hospital in support of pediatric \u2013 and student athlete-specific therapeutic spaces within the hospital\u2019s planned Gouin Village clinical facility.<\/p>\n
The investment reflects the Foundation\u2019s commitment to supporting not only the immediate needs of Nantucket\u2019s children, but also transformational projects that will strengthen resources available to island families for generations to come.<\/p>\n
Bresette also introduced Nantucket Golf Club founder and philanthropist Ed Hajim as Chairman of the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation, marking an important new chapter in the Foundation\u2019s leadership as it enters its next 25 years of service to the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cReaching our 25th year gives us an opportunity to celebrate everything this community has made possible, but it also gives us an opportunity to look forward,\u201d Bresette said. \u201cThere is still so much we can do together. The incredible generosity we witnessed this year ensures that the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation can continue making meaningful investments in Nantucket\u2019s children for many years to come.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nantucket Children\u2019s Charity Classic raised over $9 million during its 25th anniversary event earlier this month.\u00a0The money…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[199,20796,44,20797,54,20798,12198],"class_list":["post-55071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-golf","tag-nantucket-current","tag-news","tag-people-of-nantucket","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}