Volunteers from the All-Volunteer Ocean City Cape Atlantic Chapter of the Sunshine Foundation will hold their 28th Annual Sunshine Golf Classic, sponsored by the Messner Foundation, on Monday, September 11th at the Greate Bay Country Club.
Money raised will answer the dream of Gianna Vasquez, and other children. Gianna is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and severe level 3 autism. Gianna dreams of going on the Autism on the Seas family cruise “Because I never went on one before. I want to know what it’s like to be away on a vacation
and be happy.”
Film and picture crews are invited to attend the tournament starting at noon on Monday, September 11th located at 901 Mays Landing Rd, Somers Point, NJ 08244. Shotgun start at 1pm followed by dinner and prizes at 6pm.
The tournament was founded in 1995 by volunteers from the All-Volunteer Ocean City Cape Atlantic Chapter of the Sunshine Foundation. In its 28-year existence, the tournament alone has sent over 100 children and their families to Disney World, SeaWorld, Universal Studios, LEGOLAND Florida and the Sunshine Foundation Dream Village in Central Florida over the years.
Sunshine Foundation also answers Special Dreams: shopping sprees, computers and iPads, meeting celebrities, above ground swimming pools, family trips, cruises, adaptive tricycles and other special needs equipment. The goal for this tournament is to raise money to sponsor dreams for children served by the Sunshine Foundation.
More event information available at https://sunshinefoundation.org/golf-classic-2023/
Sunshine Foundation answers the dreams of children, ages three through eighteen, who have severe or profound physical/developmental/intellectual challenges or trauma from physical/sexual abuse, and whose families have limited income; life-long conditions such as spina bifida, cerebral palsy, severe level 3 autism,
Down syndrome, hydrocephalus, severe epilepsy, Sickle Cell Disease, blindness, deafness, and many others. These are children that may be turned away from other national wish-granting organizations that require a life-threatening or critical diagnosis. Sunshine Foundation is the original wish-granting organization in the United States, founded in 1976. Sunshine Foundation has spread Sunshine into the lives of more than 41,900 children over the last 47 years.
Sunshine Foundation is a publicly funded charity, with donations from individuals, corporate and family foundation grants, donor advised funds, trusts and wills, fundraising events; including ones held on our behalf by all-volunteer chapters of the Sunshine Foundation, individual families, corporate and civic groups, and even former Dream recipient families “paying it forward”.
For more information on how to refer a child or to make a donation, please visit www.sunshinefoundation.org.
