The Charities of the Deutsche Bank Championship The Tiger Woods Learning Center (TWLC), located on 14-acres in Anaheim, California, is a youth-educational facility that will feature seven classrooms, a computer lab, multi-media center, a student lounge, a 250-seat auditorium and caf�. Once completed, the TWLC will help thousands of students from diverse backgrounds broaden their perspective of the world, explore their interests and investigate new possibilities for the future. Day, after-school and weekend programs will focus on career exploration, character development and community involvement. For more information visit www.twlc.org Boston Cares, Greater Boston's premier volunteer service agency, develops and delivers team-oriented volunteer opportunities that make a tremendous impact in our communities. The organization serves more than 100 non-profit agencies, matching volunteers and companies with more than 150 service projects each month. Boston Cares is a member of the Hands On Network, a national alliance of 43 volunteer service organizations. Agassiz Village, founded in 1935 and located in Poland, Maine, is a non-profit residential summer camp that helps develop leadership and life skills to over 750 girls and boys ages 8-17 from the greater Boston area. 'Villagers' come from a range of racially, economically and socially diverse backgrounds and spend a portion of their summer being exposed to new skills and experiences in a positive and fun setting. Boston Ballet�s CityDance is a scholarship dance program offered to Boston�s third-grade students. It provides students of all socio-economic backgrounds the chance to learn various dance forms. The Healthworks Foundation promotes the health and empowerment of women and children from all cultural and economic backgrounds, through fitness outreach efforts, scholarship programs, and many community-based efforts. Artists for Humanity's mission is to bridge economic, racial and social divisions by providing at-risk youth with the keys to self-sufficiency through paid employment in the arts. Bottom Line was established as a resource for disadvantaged Boston youth to gain enrollment and graduate from college. The organization uses a three-pronged approach focused on access, transition and retention. This method has resulted in a 98% success rate in college acceptance and a greater than 80% success rate in Bottom Line alumni earning college degrees � a rate more than double the national average for disadvantaged college students. G-Row Boston (Girls-Row Boston) is the first rowing and relationship-building program designed specifically for girls in the Boston public schools. G-ROW builds girls� strength and confidence, and also aims to diversify the traditionally exclusive sport of rowing. The program was launched in 1998 under the vision of Olympic gold medallist Holly Metcalf. Today, G-ROW is a program of Community Rowing, Inc., and reaches more than 200 girls each year. St. Mary's Women and Children's Center is a community-based human service agency that provides shelter, education and job training, and support services to women, teens, infants and children. A member of the Caritas Christi Health Care System, St. Mary's serves the largest population of homeless and low-income women and children in the city of Boston. The Young Entrepreneurs Alliance (YEA) is a non-profit company dedicated to supporting teens at-risk for criminal behavior to turn their lives around through business ownership, job training, financial education and academic support. We work with teens to build the skills they need to attain long-term economic independence. The MGA ForeKids Golf Program and its junior development and enrichment facility, the MGA Links at Mamantapett, work to expand the game of golf to all segments of Massachusetts� population. The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund was named after the 1913 U.S. Open Champion and Massachusetts native. It is one of the largest independent scholarship organizations in New England. The Ouimet Fund was founded in 1949 and since that time has awarded more than $13.6 million in need-based college tuition assistance scholarships. The Boston Red Sox Foundation was established by the new owners of the team to benefit youth-based and health-based groups around New England. |
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