Fairway to Fundraising: Charity Golf Tournaments

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Finding a sponsor or co-sponsors needs to be one of the committee’s first goals. The best sponsors are those that deal with a lot of individual vendors and who can leverage those vendor relationships to encourage participation.

“What that does for you is gives you what I call reach,” says Michael Soderlund, a member of Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation’s board and the founder and director of the organization’s Fidelco Fall Classic, an annual charity golf tournament that benefits Fidelco, New England’s only guide-dog school.