ShopRite Donates More than $1.5 Million to Local Charities at the 2024 ShopRite LPGA Classic Presented by Acer

 ShopRite Donates More than $1.5 Million to Local Charities at the 2024 ShopRite LPGA Classic Presented by Acer

Dozens of organizations receive grants and recognition during the annual charity luncheon for community champions

 

Galloway, NJ (June 10, 2024) – ShopRite continued its decades-long tradition of supporting women’s golf and giving back to community-based organizations at this year’s ShopRite LPGA Classic Presented by Acer – donating nearly $1.5 million to food banks, hospitals, education and youth programs and other community champions at its annual charity luncheon on Friday, June 7.

 

The ShopRite LPGA Classic Presented by Acer brought the world’s best professional women golfers to Seaview’s Bay Course in Galloway, NJ, June 7-9. It’s also a tournament tradition that brought together and recognized community champions who fight hunger, help families and invest in research for the treatment of life-altering diseases.


"Our annual luncheon is a cherished tradition within the LPGA, and each year we look forward to honoring the organizations and advocates who contribute so much,” said Karen Meleta, Chief Communications Officer for Wakefern Food Corp., the logistics and merchandising arm of ShopRite stores. “Our ShopRite and Wakefern teams take great pride in our longstanding partnership with the LPGA tour. Over the last three decades, the ShopRite tournament has raised more than $40 million for charitable causes in the communities where our stores operate.”

 

Representatives from more than 50 regional organizations accepted grants during Friday’s luncheon. Special guest speakers at the event included Wakefern President Mike Stigers; Elizabeth McCarthy, president and CEO of The Community FoodBank of New Jersey; Wakefern Member Sandy Brown, chairwoman and executive vice president of Brown’s Super Stores, a fourth-generation family business that operates 10 ShopRite supermarkets in Philadelphia and the surrounding area; and Kenneth Zaentz, president and CEO of Alzheimer’s New Jersey.

 

"ShopRite and Wakefern’s support and generosity are vital to the success and impact of the LPGA, especially when it comes to giving back to the community, " said Jeremy Friedman, media director for the ShopRite LPGA Classic. “We are incredibly proud to have them as our partners and the longest standing title sponsor on the LPGA Tour.”

 

Atlantic City’s largest sporting event, the ShopRite LPGA Classic is one of the LPGA Tour’s longest running events. For three decades, golf fans from across the northeast have converged upon the Jersey Shore to watch the top female golfers in the world compete on the famed waterfront course. The tournament not only hosts one of the strongest fields in women’s golf, but it also creates more than $19 million in economic activity in the region each year.

 

The following organizations received grants at the ShopRite luncheon Friday:

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION DELAWARE VALLEY

ALZHEIMER’S NEW JERSEY

ARC OF ATLANTIC COUNTY 

ATLANTICARE FOUNDATION

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATLANTIC CITY

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

CARES INSTITUTE – ROWAN UNIVERSITY

CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION

CHILDREN’S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL

COMMUNITY FOODBANK OF NEW JERSEY

DEBORAH HOSPITAL

EMBRACE KIDS FOUNDATION

EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION

FIRST TEE – JERSEY SHORE

GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY

FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE

FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY

CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE

FULFILL FOOD BANK

GOODWILL OF DELAWARE & DELAWARE COUNTY

ISLAND HARVEST

JDRF – DELAWARE VALLEY

JFCS OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY

KESSLER FOUNDATION

LONG ISLAND CARES

MARYLAND FOOD BANK

MERCER STREET FRIENDS

NORWESCAP

MATHENY

OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE

PHILABUNDANCE FOOD BANK

PGA REACH

THE CHRISTOPHER & DANA REEVE FOUNDATION

RIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE

COOPERMAN BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

SILOAM WELLNESS

SPECIAL OLYMPICS NJ

ST. JOSEPH’S HEALTH

ST. JOSEPH SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER

TRINITAS FOUNDATION

SUSAN G. KOMEN

180 TURNING LIVES AROUND

VETERANS CENTER OF HOBOKEN

CHILDREN ON THE GREEN

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MILFORD

SHARING EXCESS

SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN

STOCKTON UNIVERSITY

VAL SKINNER FOUNDATION

About ShopRite

ShopRite is the registered trademark of Wakefern Food Corp., a retailer-owned cooperative based in Keasbey, NJ, and the largest supermarket cooperative in the United States. With nearly 280 ShopRite supermarkets located throughout New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland, ShopRite serves millions of customers each week. Through its ShopRite Partners In Caring program, ShopRite is dedicated to fighting hunger in the communities it serves. Since the program began in 1999, ShopRite Partners In Caring has donated nearly $62 million to food banks that support more than 2,200 worthy charities. As a title sponsor of the ShopRite LPGA Classic Presented by Acer, ShopRite has donated $40 million to local organizations, hospitals and community groups. For more information, please visit www.shoprite.com.

June 10, 2024
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