{"id":329812,"date":"2025-10-24T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/329812\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:08:10","slug":"birdies-for-charity-raises-19m-at-colonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/329812\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdies for Charity Raises $19M at Colonial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Officials from the Charles Schwab Challenge and Fort Worth Colonial Charities announced that close to $19 million was generated through this year\u2019s Birdies For Charity program during the 2025 tournament at Colonial Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament\u2019s 33 charity partners secured $18,976,177 in donation pledges from their supporters, and PGA Tour\u00a0professionals contributed to the effort by making 1,269 birdies during the event last May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past two decades, our Birdies For Charity program has continued to gain momentum and brand identity,\u201d said Logan Dickinson, chairman of Birdies For Charity. \u201cBirdies For Charity is only successful due to our partner charities being fully committed to the initiative which includes these nonprofits putting in a great deal of work to promote it and to secure the pledges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Charles Schwab Challenge is one of the largest Birdies For Charity campaigns on the PGA Tour. Since the program\u2019s inception locally in 2005, Birdies For Charity has generated nearly $195 million for participating local charities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, the front-line charitable organizations in Tarrant County have stepped up and have been very intentional with their efforts surrounding Birdies For Charities. The result: Millions of dollars pouring back into our community that we all love,\u201d said Brian Estridge, president and CEO of Fort Worth Colonial Charities. \u201cFort Worth Colonial Charities is proud to be the facilitator, and we are excited to see all the good work that these funds support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 33 Birdies For Charity Local Charities<\/p>\n<p>A Wish with Wings<\/p>\n<p>ACH Child and Family Services \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alliance for Children, Inc. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baylor Scott &amp; White All Saints Health Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County<\/p>\n<p>Camp Fire First Texas<\/p>\n<p>Cancer Care Services<\/p>\n<p>CASA of Tarrant County<\/p>\n<p>Cassata Catholic High School<\/p>\n<p>Child Study Center at Cook Children\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>Communities in Schools Greater Tarrant County<\/p>\n<p>Community Storehouse<\/p>\n<p>Cornerstone Assistance Network<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth Museum of Science &amp; History<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth Youth Orchestra\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gill Children\u2019s Services \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hill School<\/p>\n<p>HOPE Farm, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Imagination Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>Komen Greater Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>Lena Pope Home, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Lighthouse for the Blind of Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County<\/p>\n<p>Recovery Resource Council<\/p>\n<p>Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>Texas Health Resources Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Texas Wesleyan University<\/p>\n<p>The Archway<\/p>\n<p>The First Tee of Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>The Gatehouse<\/p>\n<p>The WARM Place<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Center of Tarrant County<\/p>\n<p>YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials from the Charles Schwab Challenge and Fort Worth Colonial Charities announced that close to $19 million was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":329813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,163844,108123,163845,7371,11095,7372,1430,15418,1456,256,62,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-329812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-charles-schwab-challenge","10":"tag-colonial-country-club","11":"tag-community-giving","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-fort-worth-inc-staff","14":"tag-fortworth","15":"tag-golf","16":"tag-nonprofits","17":"tag-pga-tour","18":"tag-philanthropy","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-top-story","22":"tag-tx","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115430719796641959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}