TEAMS

Without the leadership and generosity of these sponsors, we would not be here today. We want to extend our heartfelt thanks for your contribution and to the riders who share their time and talents to participate.

CHARITY - TEAM SPONSOR - CORPORATE SPONSOR

Center for Family Services of Palm Beach County (CFS) - Peacock Ridge - Rosner’s Appliances

Center for Trauma Counseling - The Barnett, McCaw and McQuarrie Families - The Gochman Family

Chasin A Dream Foundation - Louisburg Farm - Rosenbaum PLLC

ChildNet - Gut Einhaus, LLC - Greenberg Traurig

Coalition for Independent Living Options - Rock Ridge Farms - Canadian Pacific Railway

Eat Better Live Better - Goshen Hill Foundation - Fair Play Farm

Equestrian Aid Foundation - Rodriguez Equestrian - Lugano Diamonds

Family Promise of North central Palm Beach County - Sexton

Engineering - Triple M Farms

Hanley Foundation - Little Creek Equestrian - Riderzon

Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches & Treasure Coast - Lothlorien Farm - La Victoria Farm

Morningday Community Solutions - Southern Arches - Enterprise Holdings

Opportunity Early Childhood Education and Family Center - The Eppinger Family - Starwyn Farms

Palm Beach County Food Bank - Team Welles - H5 Stables

T. Leroy Jefferson Medical Society - Silver Oak Stable - Collin and Virginia McNeil

The Arc of the Glades Inc. - Bainbridge Farm - Stone Hill Farm

The Children’s Healing Institute - The Postage Stamp Farm Foundation - Evergate Stables, LLC

The Housing Coalition of Palm Beach - The Dammerman, Domencich and Little Memorial Team - Dever

The Junior League of the Palm Beaches, Inc. - Forget Me Not Farm, LLC - Carol and Shelby Bonnie

The Pearl Mae Foundation, Inc. - Portfolio Horses, LLC - Equine Tack and Nutritionals

Unicorn Children’s Foundation - Madison Hills Farm - Green River Farm

Urban League of Palm Beach County - Hidden Ridge and The Lignelli Family - Kelli and Gerald Ford

The Wellington PTA/PTO/PTSA - The Copper Beech Foundation, Inc. - Coleridge Stables & Buck Hill Equestrian, LLC

YWCA of Palm Beach County - Spy Coast & Preston - Diamante Dressage

Donations and sponsorships from local families, foundations, businesses, vendors, exhibitors and spectators, ranging from $50 to $50,000 are what make the event reach its fundraising goal of over $1 million every year.

All donations are 100% tax-deductible and re-distributed to local non-profit organizations.

This year, the GCC has joined forces with United Way of Palm Beach County to enable the event to accept online donations for the first time, in the hopes of raising additional funds to support local charities.

We invite you to become part of this movement and community effort by visiting www.GreatCharityChallenge.com or scanning the code below.

Thank you to the additional sponsors who enable the Great Charity Challenge presented by Fidelity Investments® to award additional grants:

Additional Contributing Sponsors

Bank of America

The Doyle Family Foundation

Equifit

Everglades Equipment Group

Fidelity Investments®

HorseScents

United Way of Palm Beach County

Grand Prix Level Sponsors

Coleridge Stables

Equestrian Sport Productions

Evergate Stables, LLC

Rolex

The Ziegler Family Foundation

With 300 applications received for the chance to participate in the 12th Annual event, the drawing process brought hope, excitement, and entertainment for those who followed the Great Charity Challenge presented by Fidelity Investments® (GCC) lottery drum’s “travels” between Wednesday, December 9, and Tuesday, December 15, 2020.

To guarantee full transparency in the selection process, all drawings were posted via Facebook Live. All drawing videos can be viewed via the event’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/greatcharitychallenge as well as Instagram: www.instagram.com/great_charity_challenge/

Center For Family Services Of Palm Beach County

www.ctrfam.org

Mission: to strengthen individuals and families through behavioral health services. Since 1961, the Center has been serving children, adults, and families in Palm Beach County through various affordable services, including individual, family, & group counseling, recovery, treatment for abuse, and parenting programs.

Intended Fund Use: CFS would apply the funds to support our Individual and Family Counseling Program to increase accessibility to services and provide much-needed resources. Although mental health issues affect people from all backgrounds, adverse socio-economic conditions expose people to stressors that worsen their mental health and impede their ability to receive appropriate treatment. Our Counseling program provides affordable care by highly trained, multi-lingual therapists. CFS removes the barriers that keep people from seeking assistance through teletherapy and free services.

In Palm Beach County last year, the number of adults with a diagnosable mental disorder was nearly 1 in 4. Since the arrival of COVID, we are receiving an increase in referral calls and cases are requiring more than just therapy. Therapists stepped in to provide case management for clients’ basic needs and, once stabilized, treat clients’ psychological distress.

Center For Trauma Counseling

www.palmbeachmentalhealth.org

Mission: to ensure the immediate availability of cost-effective mental health interventions to serve most “in need” Palm Beach County impacted by trauma related experiences.

Intended Fund Use: Emergency funds would be used towards covering the cost of reduced sliding scale counseling fees and support our need for new computers, to support telehealth, within the Center and on the Mobile Hope Clinic.

With COVID, CTC has begun providing sessions via telehealth and upgrades within the agency are desperately needed to support this necessary advancement to better serve our clients. Our main objectives are to expand our reach by establishing new points of services through the use of the MHC and to reduce financial barriers to effective treatment. By adding and electronic medical records with a HIPAA compliant telehealth platform, expanding broad band WIFI, and keeping our sliding scale cost at $45 per session we will able to meet the needs of the underserved low income population within our county, keeping our services accessible. CTC’s primary goal is providing trauma specific mental health services to the underserved, uninsured residents in Palm Beach County.

Chasin A Dream Foundation

http://chasinadream.org

Mission: to assist local families with children battling cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart disease and other life threatening illnesses and disabilities. We believe in the tenet of locals helping locals and in keeping donated dollars in the local community.

Intended Fund Use: Due to the high cost of healthcare and in caring for a sick or disabled child, often times families are faced with the choice of paying their bills or paying for life saving medication and treatment for their child. As a result, many families will lose their job, home, car and most everything they have in an attempt to saving their child’s life. The Critical Need Fund financially assists these families by helping with rent, food, transportation, medical expenses not covered by insurance, and basic utilities. The number of families requesting financial assistance is growing due to Covid.

Additionally, we are providing laptops for children to maintain their school work while unable to attend school due to their medical condition through the Hospital Homebound Program. We also provide an iPad for each child admitted to the hospital with a life threatening illness as part of our Hospital Backpack Program. The backpack contains other items such as a blanket, pillow, toiletries, diffuser & oils, crafts and toys.

Coalition For Independent Living Options

www.cilo.org

Mission: Our staff is dedicated to helping people of all ages with all disabilities to live their lives to the fullest without barriers.

Intended Fund Use: Since COVID struck, we have saved over 100 families from becoming homeless by paying past-due rent and utilities as well as provided assistance with deposits and move-in expenses.

Additionally, we have delivered healthy food to hundreds of families too frail and vulnerable to venture out in the pandemic.

In the past 2 years CILO has averaged helping 4,000+ people with disabilities, including over 2,000 who were victims of crimes. Funds received will be used for rent and utility assistance as well as food deliveries.

Eat Better Live Better

www.eblb.org

Mission: to improve nutrition for children and fight childhood obesity and other diet related health conditions.

Intended Fund Use: The Eat Better Live Better (EBLB) Grocery Assistance Program (GAP) plans to deliver fresh produce & nutritious food to more than 2,500 low-income families in 2021 within Palm Beach County. In addition to providing healthy, nutritious food to families in need in Palm Beach County, EBLB’s GAP program delivers much needed weekly planners for meals, recipes, and fun cooking activities for the families.

EBLB delivers the following though its GAP program: Groceries delivered to assist families without access to transportation; Nutrition guidance provided to help families reach health goals; Caring relationships fostered during trying times; Help provided in terms of securing SNAP benefits, unemployment, and filling out job applications.

Equestrian Aid Foundation

www.equestrianaidfoundation.org

Mission: to provide financial grants to members of the equestrian community who are in crisis due to catastrophic injury, illness, or occurrence. We help to rebuild lives.

Intended Fund Use: Since we opened our COVID-19 Emergency Fund in March, we have issued 275 grants to equestrians unable to afford essential expenses during the industry shutdown and subsequent ongoing disruptions. The data we collected through this program reinforces what we have observed through 24 years of service: most working equestrians live a hand-to-mouth existence, and those who do have a modest safety net are unprepared for disaster.

While the strain of the shutdown we endured in the spring may be over, the ongoing effects of COVID on individuals are far from over. Even today, throughout our country, equestrian professionals are still struggling. With cases on the rise and the future uncertain, EAF will use the funds won in the 2021 GCC to establish a Palm Beach County Emergency Fund. Our target demographic will be county-based equestrians who are unable to afford the most basic living expenses—either their own or those of the school horses they depend upon to make a living—due to the ongoing negative effects of the pandemic. To the extent that basic living expenses (food, housing, basic medical care, insurance, etc.) are essential to one’s wellbeing, we consider this fund an emergency health service for our community.

Family Promise Of North Central Palm Beach County

www.familypromisencpbc.org

Mission: to help local homeless children by empowering their families to regain selfsufficiency. FPNCPBC focuses on families who are homeless, do not qualify for county-funded homeless services, and have no place to turn. Through a network of non-profit and interfaith organizations, families are provided temporary shelter, meals, and support.

Intended Fund Use: COVID-19 has tested our organization’s ability to meet the complex and growing needs of homeless children and their families. Under normal conditions FPNCPBC receives invaluable in-kind temporary shelter and meal support for newly enrolled families from our network of interfaith partner centers throughout PBC. With these centers closed, the burdens of temporary shelter costs are unfunded. Not wanting to turn away any eligible families the FPNCPBC team has been working with community partners and funders to piece together the funding to keep these children and their families from living on the streets.

Further, FPNCPBC continues to work with 35 graduate families (125 people) enrolled in our 3-year L.I.F.E. family-strengthening program. All L.I.F.E. families became unemployed as a result of the crisis. With the federal eviction moratorium ending in December, forecasting an eviction crisis, we will need additional resources to prevent a relapse to homelessness.

Funding from GCC will be used for emergency housing costs for newly enrolled families and to mitigate emergencies leading to a relapse to homelessness for our 35 L.I.F.E. families. No child should ever feel the burden of homelessness. Emergency housing funds from GCC will help provide the stability they so urgently need.

HANLEY FOUNDATION hanleyfoundation.org

Mission: We create and implement strategies designed to change the face of addiction. We are committed to solving today’s addiction problems in our community.

Intended Fund Use: Hanley Foundation will utilize grant funds for the Lifesaver Scholarship Program. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the population the Lifesaver Scholarship Program serves, those seeking recovery from substance use disorders. The fear around the virus, coupled with the isolation of social distancing, and the financial insecurity brought on by the pandemic shutdown, has made many people turn to the solace provided by drugs and alcohol.

In South Florida, overdoses are up 40%. To combat this, Hanley Foundation is seeking additional funding for its Lifesaver Scholarship Program to meet the increased need brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lifesaver Scholarship Program supports one of Hanley Foundation’s most important pillars: to provide individuals suffering from the disease of addiction access to high quality treatment. The program functions as a collaboration between Hanley Foundation and over 40 accredited substance use disorder treatment facilities both locally and nationally, providing treatment scholarships to individuals from Palm Beach County, who would otherwise be unable to afford care. Last year, Hanley Foundation was able assist over 200 individuals with access to quality treatment. Our hope is that we can raise enough that every need-based scholarship is accommodated. Further support enable Hanley Foundation to continue to provide critical help to individuals, families, and communities affected by substance use disorders in the wake of the COVID pandemic.

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE PALM BEACHES & TREASURE COAST www.juniorachievement.com

Mission: To inspire and prepare youth throughout Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, and Hendry counties to succeed in a global economy. *Note that funding received from the GCC will be focused on Palm Beach County programs.

Intended Fund Use: Whether students return to the classrooms or to the kitchen tables, Junior Achievement has the programs needed to prepare our kids for their future. Funds are needed to reach our goal of serving 40,240 students this year, of which over 70% are eligible for free/reduced priced meals. Specifically, funds will go towards serving 7,000 kids through our K-5th grade programs budgeted to cost $125,287.

JA’s elementary school programs are the foundation of our K-12 curricula. Six sequential themes, each with five hands-on activities work to change students’ lives by helping them understand business and economics. Each program is now designed to be incorporated into teachers’ Google Classrooms. By reorganizing the program content and utilizing the tools in Google Suite, teachers have seamless access to provide quality programming for all students, regardless of whether they are in-person or not. The process for teachers is easy: sign-up for programs using a simple Google Form and the JA Programs Team adds the teacher to the requested program’s Google Site. The program’s Google Site provides everything the teachers need to run the program successfully, including the pre- and post-tests, the JA Student Verification Form, and even a place to request a JA-trained volunteer mentor!