{"id":41086,"date":"2024-12-17T07:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/?p=41086"},"modified":"2024-12-12T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T02:27:00","slug":"rogers-charity-classic-sets-new-fundraising-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/rogers-charity-classic-sets-new-fundraising-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Charity Classic Sets New Fundraising Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\">$25.4 Million Raised for Children\u2019s Charities at 2024 tournament<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\">CALGARY, Alberta\u00a0\u2014 Rogers Charity Classic announced recently that the 12th annual tournament raised a record-breaking $25.4 million to support children\u2019s charities across Alberta.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\">The staggering amount surpasses last year\u2019s fundraising total by more than $6 million and brings the total raised since the tournament\u2019s inception to $137.7 million. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\">\u201cWe are proud to make a positive impact on more children and families across Alberta with this record-breaking fundraising effort in our first year as title partner,\u201d said Tony Staffieri, President and CEO, Rogers.\u201d \u201cWe believe in the power of sport to unite us and make our communities stronger, and it\u2019s an honor to continue the legacy of the Shaw family.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41087 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_RCC-Charity-Announcement-2024-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_RCC-Charity-Announcement-2024-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_RCC-Charity-Announcement-2024-800x550.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_RCC-Charity-Announcement-2024-100x69.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_RCC-Charity-Announcement-2024-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_RCC-Charity-Announcement-2024-1536x1057.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_RCC-Charity-Announcement-2024-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_RCC-Charity-Announcement-2024-450x310.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_RCC-Charity-Announcement-2024-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnail_RCC-Charity-Announcement-2024.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/>\u201cIt is special for our entire team to look back on another record-setting year and realize this spectacular tournament continues to have a tremendous impact on our youth, which was the core goal in bringing the event to Calgary,\u201d said Jim Riddell, chair, Rogers Charity Classic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\">\u201cI firmly believe it takes an entire community to build a successful international event of this magnitude, so this accomplishment should be celebrated by everyone \u2013 including the more than 1,400 volunteers, our generous corporate partners, golf fans of this amazing city who came down to Canyon Meadows this summer, and Canadians from across the country who chipped in with a donation to a charity of their choice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\">&#8220;Together, our supporters contributed to making a meaningful impact on our community, and the true champions of our event \u2013 the children in our province.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\">Rogers, in its first year of title partnership, kickstarted the\u00a0 tournament\u2019s 2024 fundraising efforts in May with a\u00a0$1 million donation to Rogers Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink, the charitable arm of the event supporting thousands of youth across the province annually in areas that include counseling, sports, and family support.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\">The program is integrated into the existing fundraising efforts of participating charities to help generate new funds, with each of the 293 charities receiving 100% of all donations collected on their behalf, plus up to 50% in matched funding provided by the Rogers Charity Classic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\">\u201cIn 2015, when we launched our partnership as the presenting sponsor of Rogers Birdies for Kids, we couldn\u2019t have imagined the enormous positive impact that this event would have on the lives of thousands of kids across Alberta,\u201d said Gary Hart, President and CEO, AltaLink. \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud to support the almost 300 charities that benefit from the tournament and looking forward to continuing to build on the tournament\u2019s legacy of giving.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: AvenirNext-Regular; font-size: large;\">Last year,\u00a0Rogers committed to a five-year deal\u00a0as title sponsor of the Rogers Charity Classic, Canada\u2019s only PGA TOUR Champions tournament, building on its commitment to growing golf in Canada and building strong communities in Alberta.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$25.4 Million Raised for Children\u2019s Charities at 2024 tournament CALGARY, Alberta\u00a0\u2014 Rogers Charity Classic announced recently that the 12th annual tournament raised a record-breaking $25.4 million to support children\u2019s charities across Alberta.\u00a0 The staggering amount surpasses last year\u2019s fundraising total by more than $6 million and brings the total raised since the tournament\u2019s inception to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":41088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41089,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41086\/revisions\/41089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}