Toronto, Ontario — The Collision Repair Education Foundation (CREF) held their first virtual golf fundraiser on July 25. After the original annual golf fundraiser was cancelled due to COVID-19, participants from more than 30 states and Canada participated in the online fundraiser—golfing 18 holes from their homes using the TopGolf game.
The registration fee was $25 and will be used to help support high school and college collision programs in this upcoming school year. Less Sullivan from Georgia, U.S. took the win in the game with a score of 53 and won the prize of a GoldenTee home arcade, provided by Enterprise.
“Being in unique times means coming up with unique ideas to help get the industry involved with raising support for the future professionals of the industry,” said CREF Director of Development, Brandon Eckenrode. “On behalf of the staff, board and collision instructors across the country, thank you to all the virtual golfers. As we are quickly approaching the start of the new school year, instructors are in need of support now more than ever and every donation helps.”
CREF are now looking into additional online fundraiser ideas for fall and winter.
The foundation asks all company’s who are interested in supporting high school and college collision programs to contact Brandon.Eckenrode@ed-foundation.org.
