1st Choice Mortgage had chaired the South Carolina Mortgage Broker’s Association Annual Golf Tournament since 1996, so in 2004 when the SCMBA decided not to have the tournament anymore, 1st Choice Mortgage decided to take it on ourselves.  In doing so, we realized we could not run the money for the tournament through the company, so we created a non-profit organization in which to do the tournament.  In June 2004, The Children’s Charity Golf Tournament was created and we filed through the IRS as a 501 (c) 3 Non-Profit Organization. 

During the eight years the tournament was sponsored by the SCMBA, the tournament netted over $250,000 for children’s charities in the Greater Columbia, SC area.  In 2004, as the Children’s Charity Golf Tournament, the tournament netted $22,000 each for The Carolina Children’s Home and Camp Kemo.  In 2005, the tournament netted $24,127 which enabled CCGT to give a check to The Carolina Children’s Home for $12,000 and a check to Camp Kemo for $12,000.  In 2006, CCGT netted a little over $20,000 and gave The Carolina Children’s Home and Camp Kemo $10,000 each.  In 2007 and 2008, the Board of Director’s of The Carolina Children’s Home became responsible for securing sponsors for the tournament.  CCGT has given the Carolina Children’s Home $54,128.78 in the past two years. 

This year again, the tournament will benefit The Carolina Children’s Home (3201 Trenholm Road, Columbia, SC), a home for children and adolescents who have been the victims of abuse and need counseling and therapeutic care to overcome their traumatic pasts.  Your sponsorship can go a long way to providing a better life for the children.

The goal of CCGT is to solicit more businesses in the Greater Columbia and South Carolina areas to support the tournament each year.  We feel that if we can get more businesses “on board;” we can “grow” the tournament to an annual event that will net a substantial amount of money for the children’s charities we support. 

We hope you will see it in your heart to support the CCGT this year.  The children of The Carolina Children’s Home depend on our support.  Our ultimate goal is to support the children.  Please join us!  You will be glad you did! 

The Children’s Charity Golf Tournament is a non-profit organization.  Tax ID # is 20-1212701