Austin Golfers Take Swing at Ending Global Poverty

AUSTIN, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011. On September 12, 2011, 57 golfers took a swing at ending global poverty by raising $75,000 in the Austin Partnership Golf tournament at the Avery Ranch Golf Club in Austin, Texas.
 

PartnershipsInAction Golf is an initiative of Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) to raise awareness and funds that reduce poverty, hunger, illiteracy and poor health in Africa and Asia. One hundred percent of all donations and net proceeds from the tournament go directly to projects supported by AKF USA; not a cent is spent on administration.
 

The tournament attracted high-level corporate executives, civic leaders and local celebrities. Haley Rushing of the Purpose Foundation gave the keynote address, saying that Aga Khan Foundation “is in the business of giving people a vision of what’s possible and giving them the wherewithal to actually manifest that better future in their lives.”
 

Read the entire press release here.