Proceeds from the FBA’s annual Charity Golf Outing were given to local nonprofit organizations
By Samantha Bambino
The Times
In July 2018, the Feasterville Business Association hosted its 28th annual Charity Golf Outing, which successfully raised more than $11,000. Currently celebrating its 70th anniversary year, the FBA’s mantra remains the same — “to promote growth and progress for the betterment of the community.” Therefore, it’s become tradition for the event’s proceeds to benefit businesses, organizations and nonprofits in the area.
On Wednesday, Feb. 13, at the Lower Southampton Township building, 1500 Desire Ave., Feasterville, current FBA president Charlie Roman and former president Rick Tyrrell announced the 12 recipients of the funding at the beginning of the board of supervisors meeting.
According to Roman, the selected organizations were carefully chosen by a committee, which looked for certain criteria.
“They have to be locally based. It’s not just anyone out of the area, and we’re trying to support our local community here,” he told The Times. “The proceeds from our golf outing, we’re going to try to distribute equally as much as we can, and also based on the need of each organization.”
Vice chairman of the supervisors Ed Shannon, an FBA member and organizer of the Charity Golf Outing, shared a few words.
“The Feasterville Business Association honors every business person in Lower Southampton. Even if you’re not a business person, we’d like to have you there anyway,” Shannon said. “It’s a great organization and we do an awful lot.”
Roman and Tyrrell then did the honors of presenting checks to the various organizations, calling to the floor representatives of each.
Recipients included Sunshine Foundation, which grants dreams of chronically ill and abused children; Special Equestrians, a Warrington-based nonprofit that harnesses the healing power of horses to improve the physical, mental and emotional well-being of individuals with disabilities through the equine experience; and Playwicki Farm Foundation, which helps raise funds for the historic Playwicki Farm.
Also selected by the FBA committee was the Network of Victims Assistance, which offers free training to prevent child sexual abuse; the Neshaminy Senior Center, which offers activities for adults 55 and over; the Lower Southampton Athletic Association, a nonprofit of community residents banded together for the development of local youth through athletic activities; Libertae, an addiction recovery facility that empowers women to reclaim their lives; Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, which provides prevention, intervention and addiction recovery solutions; A Woman’s Place, the only domestic violence community benefit organization in Bucks County; Friends of the Lower Southampton Library; American Red Cross; and SEAN & ME.
Grants were also made for the FBA’s annual college scholarships, the annual FBA Easter egg hunt, and holiday gift baskets for needy families.
Since its inception, the annual Charity Golf Outing has raised more than $280,000 in charitable and communal endeavors.
“The Feasterville Business Association is very committed to supporting local communities and charities and things of that sort, and we really try to give back,” said Roman.
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