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Georgia-Pacific, PGA Tour and Rebuilding Together Partner on Healthy Homes Tour
Georgia-Pacific, PGA Tour and Rebuilding Together Partner on Healthy Homes Tour
Published 06-08-05
Submitted by Georgia-Pacific
ATLANTA - In conjunction with the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions tour, Georgia-Pacific Corp. and the PGA TOUR's Champions Tour are partnering with Rebuilding Together for the second year on a national effort to provide families in need with safe, healthy living environments.
The 2005 Healthy Homes Tour will work with low-income homeowners to provide free building products and skilled volunteers to repair their homes with help from the Champions Tour players. On behalf of the Champions Tour, Georgia-Pacific will donate more than $140,000 to Rebuilding Together and its affiliates.
"Rebuilding Together is proud to join forces with Georgia-Pacific and the PGA TOUR to make a sustainable impact nationwide," said Patricia Johnson, president and chief executive officer of Rebuilding Together. "Our organizations are committed to providing resources that promote a positive home experience, especially for the low-income elderly, disabled and families with children."
The Healthy Homes Tour makes stops in select cities where a Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions event is played. This year, Boston, Baltimore and Atlanta will become the focus of renovation projects that bring together the Champions Tour players, Rebuilding Together and its local affiliates, Georgia Pacific employees and community volunteers.
"We will mobilize caring people and quality products to help families repair their homes, and at the same time, begin revitalization in their neighborhoods," said Alan Thielemann, Georgia-Pacific's vice president of building products marketing. "Georgia-Pacific is glad to be a part of this worthy cause and our employees enjoy giving back to the community in this way."
"The Champions Tour players fully support this program and look forward to participating in the local rebuilding projects," said Champions Tour president Rick George. "We also applaud Georgia-Pacific for making such a significant commitment to Rebuilding Together's mission."
As projected from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, the current 24 million low-income homeowners in the United States will increase to 28.5 million by the year 2010.
An increasing number of families are placed in the position of choosing between vital necessities such as food or medicine and a roof that does not leak. Rebuilding Together partners with companies to ensure that families don't have to make these difficult choices, but can make the basic repairs and maintenance needed to have a good home. Georgia-Pacific has supported Rebuilding Together since 1992.
About the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions Competition
Since 1999, Georgia-Pacific has been the title sponsor of the Grand Champions "tournament within a tournament," which features players age 60 and older who are entered in the full-field Champions Tour.
This year's players include such luminaries as Lee Trevino, Gary Player, Dave Stockton, Mike Hill, Raymond Floyd, Bob Charles, Jim Dent, Bob Murphy, Isao Aoki, Miller Barber, Graham Marsh, Bruce Summerhays, J.C. Snead and Jay Sigel. Turning 60 this year and becoming eligible for the championship are Hale Irwin, John Jacobs and Mike McCullough.
Upcoming dates for the 2005 Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions schedule are:
The 2005 season-ending Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions tournament will be held at Atlanta's Hawks Ridge Golf Club on Sept. 22 and 23, and will offer a purse of $400,000 -- the largest overall Grand Champions purse of the year.
Although Grand Champions earnings are unofficial, the players are eligible to collect prize money for their finish in the regular tournament as well. A player is eligible to win both the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions and the overall tournament at the same event. Six times within the past eight years this has happened. Most recently, J.C. Snead accomplished this feat at the 2002 Greater Baltimore Classic. The Grand Champions competition started in 1987. For more information, visit www.gp.com/golf.
About the Partners
Washington, D.C.-based Rebuilding Together is the nation's largest volunteer-based organization that restores and revitalizes America's low-income houses and communities. With the support of leading corporations, Rebuilding Together has rehabilitated more than 96,000 homes and non-profit facilities since 1988.
Headquartered at Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of tissue, packaging, paper, building products and related chemicals. With 2004 annual sales of $20 billion, the company employs approximately 55,000 people at more than 300 locations in North America and Europe. Georgia-Pacific's building products manufacturing business has long been among the nation's leading suppliers of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers. For more information, visit www.gp.com.
The Champions Tour is a tax-exempt membership organization of professional golfers age 50 and older. Conceived in 1980 as the Senior PGA Tour, it started with just four events and purses totaling $475,000. The Champions Tour has grown to 28 official events offering $52.8 million (minimum) in prize money in 2004 and its highest average purse ever of $1.75 million. The Tour has an additional lineup of Challenge/unofficial money events played in January, September, November and December. In October 2002, the PGA TOUR announced a rebranding of its three Tours (PGA TOUR, Champions Tour and Nationwide Tour) to more closely align them as part of one brand under the PGA TOUR umbrella. It was at this time the Senior PGA Tour was renamed the Champions Tour. The Champions Tour's primary purpose is to provide significant competitive and earnings opportunities for players age 50 and older; to protect the integrity of the game; and to help grow the reach of the game in the U.S. and around the world. In addition to providing competitive opportunities for its membership, Champions Tour events also generate significant sums of money for charity. The three Tours of the PGA TOUR and their tournaments have generated more than $910 million for charity since the first recorded donation was made in 1938, with more than $89 million raised in 2004. The commissioner of the PGA TOUR is Tim Finchem. Rick George is president of the Champions Tour. TOUR headquarters is in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Its web site address is PGATOUR.COM.
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Based in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries are among the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of bath tissue, paper towels and napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, nonwoven fabrics, building products and related chemicals. Our familiar consumer brands include Quilted Northern®, Angel Soft®, Brawny®, Dixie®, enMotion®, Sparkle® and Vanity Fair®. Georgia-Pacific has long been a leading supplier of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers. Its Georgia-Pacific Recycling subsidiary is among the world’s largest traders of paper, metal and plastics. The company operates more than 150 facilities and employs more than 30,000 people directly and creates approximately 89,000 jobs indirectly. For more information, visit: gp.com/about-us . For news, visit: gp.com/news
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