BENEFITING CHARITIES

With close to $75 million raised for Arizona charities, countless individuals and groups have benefited from the monies raised through the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Here are just a few of the many charities The Thunderbirds and its title sponsor has helped in recent years:

A & A Cottages

A Hand of Hope

A New Leaf

A Stepping Stone Foundation

A.T. Still University AZ School of Dentistry & Oral Health

AASK Aid to Adoption of Special Kids

ACCEL Arizona Centers for Comprehensive Education and Life-Skills

Ahwatukee Children’s Theatre

All-Star Kids Tutoring

Alzheimer’s Association, Desert Southwest Chapter

American Diabetes Association

American Indian Services

American Lung Association of Arizona “Camp Not-A-Wheeze”

Arizona Action For Foster Children

Arizona BookPALS

Arizona Bridge to Independent Living (ABIL)

Arizona Foundation for the Handicapped

Arizona Literacy & Learning Center

Arizona Newspapers Foundation / Tribune in Education

Arizona Quest for Kids

Arizona Recreation Center for the Handicapped (ARCH)

Arizona Science Center

Arizona Spinal Cord Injury Association

Arizona Women’s Education and Employment AWEE

Arizonans For Children (AFC)

Arizona’s Children Association

Assistance League of East Valley

Assistance League of Phoenix

ASU Sun Angel Foundation

ASUZOO

Audubon Arizona

Back to School Clothing Drive

Banner Health Foundation

Beatitudes Center DOAR (Developing Older Adult Resources)

Best Buddies Arizona

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona

Booker T. Washington BTW Child Development Center

Boy Scouts of America, Grand Canyon Council “Camp Geronimo”

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Phoenix

Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley

Boys Hope Girls Hope of Arizona

Bridging AZ Furniture Bank

Career Concepts for Youth

Central Arizona Shelter Services (CASS)

Challenger Space Center of AZ

Chicanos Por La Causa

Child Crisis Center -East Valley Inc

Children’s Museum of Phoenix

Childsplay, Inc

Christ Child Society

Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence

CI, Inc

Civitan Foundation Inc

Communities in Schools of Arizona

Crisis Nursery

D-backs Youth Baseball Complex

Desert Club

Desert Mission Inc

Desert Voices Oral Learning Center

Downtown Urban Communtiy Kids (DUCK)

East Valley YMCA

Esperanca, Inc

Family Promise – Greater Phoenix

Florence Crittenton

Fore Adoption Foundation

Foster Angels of Arizona Serving Together

Foundation for Blind Children

Foundation For Excellent Schools; FES Scholars Program

Free Arts of Arizona

Fresh Start Women’s Foundation

Friendly House Inc

Friends of the Scottsdale Public Library

Future for Kids

Gabriel’s Angels

Genesis Program

Gilbert Youth Soccer Association

Girl Scouts -Arizona Cactus -Pine Council

Gompers Habilitation Center

Grand Canyon University

Greater Phoenix Youth at Risk Foundation (Youth at Risk)

Habitat for Humanity Valley of the Sun

Happily Ever After League HEAL

Helping Hands Housing Services

HomeBase Youth Services

Homeward Bound

Hope & A Future

ICAN – Improving Chandler Area Neighborhoods

Interfaith Community Care

Jewish Family and Children’s Services

Jobs for Arizona’s Graduates JAG

Junior Golf Association of Arizona

Kids Sport Stars powered by Azimuth Foundation KSS

Lions Vision Center

Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County

Maggie’s Place

Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona

Marc Center of Mesa

Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation

Mending the Soul Ministries, Inc

Mental Health Association of AZ (MHZ)

MentorKids USA

Mesa Association of Sports for the Disabled

Mesa Family YMCA

Mission of Mercy, Inc

Mitzvah Corp DBA Camp Swift Foundation

Muscular Dystrophy Association MDA

National Minority Junior Golf Scholarship Association (NMJGSA)

Neighborhood Ministries

Neurofibromatosis Inc – Arizona

New Arizona Family

New Life Center

New Song Center for Grieving Children

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Parents for Paiute Neighborhood Center

Phoenix Childrens Hospital

Phoenix Day Child and Family Learning Center

Phoenix Public Library Foundation

Phoenix Rescue Mission

Phoenix Rotary 100, Field of Dreams

Project ChalleNGe Foundation

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic of Arizona

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Phoenix (RMHC Phoenix)

Rosie’s House: A Music Academy for Children

Ryan House

Sage Foundation for Health

Save the Family

Scottsdale/PV YMCA

Sharing Down Syndrome AZ

Sojourner Center

Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center SARRC

Southwest Human Development

Southwest Leadership Foundation

Special Olympics Arizona

St. Mary’s Westside Food Bank Alliance “Kids Café”

Stepping Stones of Hope

Students Supporting Brain Tumor Research, 5th Annual Walkathon

Summer Youth Program Fund

Survivors On Our owN of AZ

TCH, The Centers for Habilitation

Teach For America

Teen Lifeline

The Arizona Character Education Foundation

The Foundation for Senior Living (FSL)

The Joanne Winter Arizona Silver Belle Championship

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

The Melonhead Foundation

The Neighborhood Christian Clinic

The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, AZ Chapter

The Phoenix Conservatory of Music

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul

The Valley of the Sun JCC

The Wellness Community

Timber Trails

UMOM New Day Centers

United Cerebral Palsey of Arizona UCP

Valle del Sol

Valley of the Sun School and Habilitation Center (VOSS)

Valley Youth Theatre VYT

West Valley Child Crisis Center

Whispering Hope Ranch Foundation

Youth at Risk

YWCA of Maricopa County “Thunderbirds Haven House”