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(Paramus, NJ) September 2, 2010 – After walking a "green carpet" into a private home in Saddle River, NJ, with their glamorous wives, 28 PGA TOUR professionals -- including 2010 winner Matt Kuchar, 2009 champion Heath Slocum, Dustin Johnson, Kenny Perry, Justin Rose and Mark Wilson -- mingled with guests at "A Green Carpet Affair." Internationally acclaimed author Harlan Coben and Bobbi Brown, CEO of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, were in attendance, as was Marty Hackel, fashion director for Golf Digest. Mr. Hackel also served as the emcee and conducted the evening's live auction, enthusiastically spurring on guests to bid on auction items, and thus help the charitable beneficiaries of the event.
Presented by Sentient Jet, the evening benefited the PGA TOUR Wives Association and Paramus-based Children's Aid and Family Services' Children's Health Center, which is scheduled to open in 2011. The Health Center will be the first primary medical care in the country specifically for infants, children and teenagers in foster care who have medical and other special needs.
The evening's activities included the chance for guests to putt with PGA TOUR professionals as well as silent and live auctions. The auction prizes included a vacation package that featured rounds of golf with PGA TOUR player Dustin Johnson and another with Kenny Perry, two tickets to Fashion Week with designer Tory Burch, a wine experience in Tuscany, a private jet charter excursion with Sentient Jet, and the opportunity to be named as a character in Mr. Coben's next book. Nearly 300 guests attended the event.
"This was a wonderful, star-studded evening that helped raise funds for our new health center for infants, children and teenagers in foster care," says Bob Jones, Ph.D., president & CEO of Children's Aid and Family Services. "We are all so grateful to the PGA TOUR Wives Association, the great number of PGA TOUR professionals and their wives who attended, our corporate sponsors and the members of the local community who supported this event so generously."
About PGA TOUR Wives Association
PGA TOUR Wives Association, Inc., is a Florida not-for-profit corporation organized in 1988 by wives of professional golfers on the PGA TOUR. The Association has raised millions of dollars for charity and has given much back to the game of golf through volunteer projects performed for and monetary contributions made to charities in communities where PGA TOUR and Nationwide Tour tournaments are held. For more information about the Association, visit the website at www.pgatourwives.org.
About Children's Aid and Family Services
Children's Aid and Family Services is one of the leading nonprofit human services organizations serving northern New Jersey. The agency is fully accredited and has served the community for more than 110 years. Its mission is to preserve, protect and, when needed, provide families. Motivated by compassion for vulnerable children, young adults, frail elderly and their families, it provides high-quality and innovative services that meet their social, educational and emotional needs. For more information on Children's Aid and Family Services, call 201.261.2800 or visit www.cafsnj.org.
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