MissionSafe 'Swing Into Action' Charity Golf Tournament Returns

On Monday, May 20, MissionSAFE hosted its "Swing Into Action" Charity Golf Tournament at TPC Boston, in Norton.

The event, previously hosted in 2008 and 2009, gathered 112 golfers who supported our programs, through a day of golf followed by an exciting banquet and live auction with auctioneer Thomas O'Neill III. The winning foursome was a team from S.& F. Concrete Contractors, captained by Rodney Frias. The event also featured a surprise visit from co-founder Sister Anne Carrabino S.S.S., who relocated to California to receive a bone marrow transplant.    

TPC Boston is a world class venue, which hosts the Deutsche Bank Championship annually. This event draws the world’s greatest golfers and is part of the Fedex Cup Playoffs, which pays $10 million to the champion. This setting, combined with a warm, sunsplashed spring day, created the perfect atmosphere for the participants.

The event was a huge success and would not have been possible without the support of so many generous sponsors. The Host Sponsor was John Moriarty & Associates. Mentor Sponsors were Tim Connolly, Credit Suisse, The Davis Companies, J. Derenzo Co., National Development S&F Concrete Contractors, Inc. Patron Sponsors were Allan Construction LLC, J. & M. Brown Company, Inc., American Plumbing & Heating, John A. Penney Co., Inc., Boston Sand & Gravel Company, John and Susan Simon, Diamond Iron Works, Karas & Karas Glass Co., Inc., E.M.C. Painting Inc., The Lamont Family, E.M.R. Drywall, Inc., T.J. McCartney, Inc., James F. Stearns Co. LLP, ValleyCrest Landscape Development, Inc., J.C. Cannistraro LLC, William M. Collins Company, Inc.

The tournament also benefited from Friend Sponsors Bay State Federal Savings, Leggat McCall Properties, Circle Floors, Inc., Mark Richey Wood Working, Ipswich Bay Glass Company, Inc., O'Neill and Associates, and Sullivan Brothers Toyota.

The auction was headlined by lunch with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, a one week vacation rental in Kennebunkport Maine, passes to the 2013 Deutsche Bank

Championship and several foursomes at elite Massachusetts Country Clubs.
Auction sponsors include: AMC Theatres, Bistro du Midi, The Boston Celtics, The Boston Red Sox, The Deutsche Bank Championship, Disney World, Doug Hajjar, The New England Patriots, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Panera Bread, Peter Cook, TPC Boston, Whole Foods Market, Thomas O'Neill III and Tim Connolly. 

“We are deeply indebted to all of the wonderful corporate and individual sponsors who helped us make the event such a success. The youth we serve daily will directly benefit from this generosity. It is such a moving statement to our young people that this type of investment is made in them," said Executive Director Nikki Flionis. 

MissionSAFE wishes to thank to Mayor Thomas M. Menino, David Leathers, Board Chair and CEO of John Moriarty and Associates, Tim Connolly, Board Treasurer and Director at Credit Suisse, Father James Ronan of St. Mary-St.Catherine of Siena parish, Thomas O'Neill III, CEO of O’Neill and Associates and Geoffrey Lamont, attorney and advisor to MissionSAFE, for all their support in making this day such a success. The event netted approximately $120,000 in support of MissionSAFE’s work with high risk young people.

MissionSAFE works with highly and proven, at-risk youth and young adults from challenged situations and communities, working with them to gain the skills and confidence they need to succeed and thrive, not merely survive, and to be agents for positive change in their communities and the larger world.

For more information contact Alex Danesco, 781-510-9040, or alex.danesco@missionsafe.org.