MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION
Granting Dreams T
BY ED VYEDA
wo girls walk into a classroom … This is not the opening line of a joke. Rather, it’s the beginning of a new life. A good life. And while it has nothing to
do with golf, it has everything to do with golf’s power to help those who may never play the game. So … Two girls walk into a classroom. Each is a teenager
Fan favorite Bill Murray has been a generous supporter of the
Monterey Peninsula Foundation with 21 appearances at the A
T&T
Pebble Beach Pro-Am; Right: Girls Inc. of the Central Coast
summer’
participants from last s Smart Choice
Program at UC Santa Cruz.
who belongs to a gang in the crime-plagued eastside neighborhoods of Salinas. Inside their high school room, a leadership program sponsored by Girls Inc. of the Central Coast is in session. Volunteer mentors offer the group advice about everyday life choices, self-esteem, handling peer pressure and ultimately building a sup- port system to help them obtain a college education. After three weeks, one girl dropped out. She stayed in the gang, got pregnant and dropped out of school. The second girl kept returning to the weekly Girls Inc. sessions, looking for a place to fit in. The group gave her a positive environment to learn about college, careers and what she needed to succeed. Eventually, she gradu- ated from high school, went to college, is now a massage therapist and married with two children. True story. “Golf helped make it happen for that girl,” says Patty
Fernandez-Torres, the executive director of Girls Inc. of the Central Coast, a mentoring program supported
Grantees receiving the largest amounts from the Monterey Peninsula Foundation Grant Committee for the fiscal year 2015-16:
LIST OF GRANTS “When the tournament ends, we crown a champion
Future Citizens Foundation (aka The First Tee of Monterey County) Youth on Course (formerly known as NCGA Foundation) Dominican Santa Cruz Hospital Foundation Monterey County Benevolent Foundation Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation Central Coast YMCA
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County First 5 Monterey County Interim Inc.
University Corporation at Monterey Bay (aka CSUMB) Girls Inc. of the Central Coast
Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County
Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra (aka Dorothy’s Place) Rancho Cielo, Inc.
Middlebury Institute of International Studies Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital Foundation United Way of Monterey County
Girl Scouts of California's Central Coast Various organizations funded at this level
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$770,000 $510,000 $500,000 $500,000 $400,000 $350,000 $260,000 $200,000 $200,000 $190,000 $170,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $125,000 $125,000 $120,000 $110,000 $100,000
and the giving starts,” says Steve John, the CEO of the Foundation and tournament director for its two pro tour events. “We may all take a collective sigh of accom- plishment, but there really is no down time – and we wouldn’t have it any other way.” “We are a resource for the community,” said John, a
former amateur competitor in the AT&T Pro-Am who is beginning his sixth year with the Foundation, follow- ing in the footsteps of tournament leaders Ollie Nutt and the late Lou Russo. “Our staff is out there looking for feedback on how we can best meet the needs of the community. If we can meet those needs, we have done our job. Then, at the end of the year, we ask ourselves, how can we do it better?” The past three years indicate the Foundation, whose primary focus region encompasses Monterey, Santa Cruz
by grants from the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, host of the annual PGA Tour AT&T Pebble Beach Pro- Am, as well as the PURE Insurance Championship on the PGA Tour Champions’ schedule. “The Monterey Peninsula Foundation has been
instrumental in our success and growth of the organi- zation started with 12 girls at one high school,” said Fernandez-Torres. “Now we are in 30 schools and reach 1,400 girls every year and we would not be able to do that without the Foundation’s support.” When the last putt drops on the 18th green at Pebble
Beach Golf Links each February and a new name is added to the list of winners at the AT&T Pro-Am, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation's real work is merely beginning.
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