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Over the weekend, Special Olympics Arizona hosted the annual Arizona Special Olympics Summer Games in which athletes from around the state competed in Track and Field, Volleyball and Power Lifting.

Thunderbirds Charities, the charitable giving arm of The Thunderbirds – hosts of the Waste Management Phoenix Open – announced today at an official groundbreaking ceremony, that a record-breaking donation of $1 million has been gifted to Special Olympics Arizona (SOAZ).

UPWARD for Children and Families, founded in 1958, serves children with special needs.  Their purpose is to help children with special needs achieve their highest potential, while empowering their families to thrive. A number of the children who attend UPWARD programs are severely disabled and medically fragile and could not attend programs on campus without

Thunderbirds Charities recently donated $300,000 to St. Mary’s Food Bank in an effort to bolster their Kids Café Program, which will help purchase two new refrigerated trucks and additional food to help reach more of Arizona’s hungry children.

First Place is a residential property for people with Autism and other neurodiversities. The property contains 55 apartments housing 79 people and represents a new wave of thinking behind community life for people with autism.

Thunderbirds Charities recently donated funds from the spring funding cycle to UMOM and Tumbleweed to help them serve Arizona’s homeless communities. UMOM and Tumbleweed, with the help of Thunderbirds Charities, serve 10,000 individuals per year by giving some of the area’s most vulnerable people the tools and guidance to move into permanent housing.