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LAKE MARY, Fla. -- Touch Your World, Inc. Follows up on Highly Successful 2004 Inaugural Event with 2nd Annual Corporate Volleyball Challenge

Touch Your World (TYW), a non-profit organization with a unique approach to educational resource fundraising, will host its second annual TYW Corporate Volleyball Challenge, the only one of its kind in Seminole County, on Saturday April 2nd, at Oval Park on International Parkway in the Lake Mary / Heathrow area of Seminole County.

Touch Your World is non-profit group organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service tax code designed to provide corporate and private funding for youths in traditional school service clubs and sports programs, linking that assistance to volunteerism in their community. Within the last year, Touch Your World has provided funding for the Winter Springs High School Lady Bears Basketball and Fast Pitch Softball Teams; Lake Brantley High School Debate and Robotics Teams; and Neighborhood Alliance Youth Group. Those youngsters received funding from this extraordinary organization in exchange for community services that have been provided to an array of organizations, including Seminole County Natural Lands Program, Ronald McDonald House, Second Harvest Food Bank, Christian Sharing Center, and Lutheran Haven Nursing Home.

In an effort to raise awareness and fund future initiatives, Touch Your World has created the annual TYW Corporate Volleyball Challenge. The event has already drawn substantial sponsorship from:

-- Kinetics, a subsidiary of NCR Corporation 

-- AirTran Airways 

-- Hampton Inn & Suites

-- Colonial Properties Trust

-- Coca-Cola

-- Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and

-- Tropical Smoothie.

The Touch Your World event involves competition between six-players, co-ed grass games, with morning three to four team "pool play" that progresses into single-elimination playoffs in the afternoon. Music, raffles, food, and drink will highlight the day. There will also be a children's play area that will include a moonwalk and activities.

Although the day will be focused on fun and recreation, teams are encouraged to be creative with team names and uniforms. "This should be an exceptional community event and a day of corporate team building, all combined into one event," said Steve Bishop, board member, of Touch Your World. "We'll have massage therapists and athletic trainers lined up to make sure that every participant experiences a fun and safe day. In addition, companies will be able to network and compete for all-important bragging rights, while giving something back to their community."

Corporate Volleyball Challenge flyers and on-line registration is available at the Touch Your World web site, http://www.touchyourworld.org. For more information on participating or sponsoring the event please contact Joe Antrim, TYW Community Service Coordinator, at 407-333-4100 ext. 174, or vial e-mail at [e-mail].