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Black’s Family Foundation Hosts Third Annual “Kitchen to the Pin Golf Classic”

March 18, 2015

Black’s Family Foundation Hosts Third Annual “Kitchen to the Pin Golf Classic” on May 18
Charity Golf Tournament Will Benefit Crossroads Community Food Network
 
What: Black Restaurant Group’s charitable arm, the Black’s Family Foundation, will bring back their popular charity golf tournament for the third year in a row, The Kitchen to the Pin Golf Classic, which will benefit the Takoma Park Crossroad Community Food Network.
 
Participants can enjoy a full day of events—golf contests including closest to pin and longest drive, cocktails on the holes, breakfast, lunch on the turn, and an awards ceremony with a full dinner catered by Black Restaurant Group. Each golfer will receive a personalized golf gift from Footjoy.
 
Who: Black’s Family Foundation will donate the proceeds to Takoma Park’s Crossroads Community Food Network. Founded in 2007 as a seasonal farmer’s market with the mission of bringing local, healthy, and affordable produce to an underserved area, the market was the first in Maryland to accept federal nutrition benefits. It was also the first in the country to launch a “double dollar” program, an incentive through which participants in federal nutrition benefit programs receive privately funded coupons, which are used exclusively at the farmer’s market to purchase fresh and prepared foods from local farmers. Since it was founded, Crossroads has distributed over $300,000 in Fresh Checks, all of which have gone directly to low-income families to spend with local farmers.  
 
Black’s Family Foundation, established in 2010, is committed to providing support for organizations with similar missions and goals. Crossroads Community Food Network and Black’s Family Foundation are aligned in their efforts to invest in the health and well being of their local community.
 
When: Monday, May 18, 2015; 11:00 a.m. Shot Gun Start
 
The entry fee is $175.00 per person and will include a full day of golf and catered food and drink from Black Restaurant Group, as well as personalized gifts. To register online, please visit: https://brgevents.wufoo.com/forms/2015-kitchen-to-the-pin-player-registration. For additional questions about the tournament contact Jenn Larkin at 301.215.6397 or jlarkin@blackrestaurantgroup.com.

Where: Hampshire Greens Golf Course, 616 Firestone Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20905
 
About Black Family Foundation
The Black’s Family Foundation believes that by actively giving to our local communities, we can empower organizations and charities to do extraordinary things. The Foundation focuses its charitable giving to committed, like-minded groups that rely heavily on volunteer efforts and where our funding will make a significant difference in assisting the needs of our community. Through the annual fundraising golf tournament and other events, Black’s Family Foundation raises money to fund charitable initiatives that further the overall health and wellness of the communities in which they operate. Black’s Family Foundation was created shortly after Jeff and Barbara Black's son, Simon, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. When they found out that Children's National Medical Center was building a new Pediatrics Diabetes wing, the Blacks saw a chance to give back to the hospital that had been so instrumental in diagnosing and treating their son. Eighteen months later, the newly established Black's Family Foundation presented Children's National Medical Center with $200,000 for the state of the art teaching kitchen In the Washington Nationals Diabetes Care Complex.
 
About Crossroads Community Food Network
Crossroads Community Food Network’s mission is to improve access to fresh, local, healthy food through innovative programs and models mutually supportive of those who grow food and those who eat it. While models are replicated in communities throughout the country, the primary focus is on the residents of Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads, a diverse, largely immigrant area at the Montgomery County and Prince George’s County border.