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CA Kicks Off World Golf Championships-CA Championship With a Focus on Community Outreach.


CA Announces Broad Donation Program Before Teeing Up Youth Golf Clinic for Miami Boys & Girls Club Girls Club is a 2002 American television series created by David E. Kelley, who was also it's producer and executive producer. Only two out of a total of thirteen episodes created were broadcast on Fox Television in the United States and Global Television in Canada.  and Miami First Tee Members

MIAMI -- CA, Inc. (NYSE NYSE

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:CA), one of the world's largest management software companies, today kicks off the World Golf Championships - CA Championship tournament week here at the Doral Doral may refer to: Business
  • Doral (cigarette), a brand of cigarette from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
  • Doral Financial Corporation, a financial institution located in Puerto Rico
 Golf Resort & Spa by underscoring its values rooted in giving back the community. Before hosting a golf clinic for more than 20 young golfers from Miami First Tee and the Miami-Dade NW Boys & Girls Club, CA is announcing a host of donations including fourteen sets of youth Cobra golf clubs, golf bags and hats, valued at $2,500, to the 2-year-old Miami Boys & Girls Club golf program.

"CA is extremely excited to drive our relationship with Miami and its residents well beyond the green," says Bill Hughes, senior vice president of CA Corporate Communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. . "CA is committed to giving back to the community as the title sponsor of the CA Championship. CA is also committed to partnering with community organizations such as the Boys & Girls Club and the Miami First Tee to better the lives of children in the Miami area."

CA also is announcing other community outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public.  components, including:

* The CA Championship, in conjunction with the PGA TOUR The PGA Tour is an organization that operates the USA's main professional golf tours. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. Its name is officially rendered in all caps as “PGA TOUR". , will donate $500,000 to The First Tee program for the development and enhancement of The First Tee programs around the country

* CA and the South Florida Golf Foundation will continue the long tradition of the Birdies for Charity program. The program collects pledges based on the number of birdies shot during the tournament; those pledges are then distributed to local, participating charities. In 2006, 28 charities participated and received $155,000 in collected pledges and matching funds Noun 1. matching funds - funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources
cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money
 from the SFGF

* Following the tournament, CA will donate the contents of a six-foot tower full of golf balls to be shared equally between the Miami Boys & Girls Club and the Miami First Tee organization. The tower of golf balls will be the focus of a raffle for all tournament attendees to enter with the chance to win a trip to Doral and the 2008 World Golf Championships - CA Championship as well as a full set of Bridgestone golf Bridgestone Golf is a golf company based in Covington, Georgia. Currently, Bridgestone Golf uses the slogan, 'Boom It', in reference to their PGA Tour staff player, Fred Couples.  clubs and a one year supply of Bridgestone golf balls

* CA also is donating daily grounds passes to the following local charities:
South Florida Golf Foundation         400 daily grounds passes
Miami Boys & Girls Club               120 daily grounds passes
Miami First Tee                       80 daily grounds passes


With the golf clinic featuring PGA TOUR player and CA partner David Howell David Howell is a name shared by several notable men:
  • David Howell (jurist) (1747-1824), U.S. jurist, Continental Congressman for Rhode Island
  • David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford (born 1936), British Conservative MP, Minister in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet
, the kids have the opportunity to gain instruction and learn from one of the world's elite golfers on the grounds of a World Golf Championships event.

The World Golf Championships - CA Championship is the centerpiece of a fully-integrated marketing and sponsorship program designed to leverage CA's visibility among its customers. The global golf marketing strategy includes title sponsorship of the CA Championship, broadcast media, brand visibility, customer hospitality and other partnership opportunities.
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