Charitable Campaigns

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• Cash America Golf Classic

  The 2009 Cash America Golf Classic, now in its 11th year, raised more than $55,000 for area charities, including All Church Home and Hope Farm. Held October 12 at Texas Star in Euless, Texas, the tournament sold out with 132 participants. Checks were presented to the charities on December 9, 2009.

  
  

  

  Cash America presents check to Hope Farm (L to R) Jackie Whiffin, Government Relations manager; Jeff Cullum, vice president of Construction; Jeanne Iorg, Facilities Repair manager; Texas State Representative Marc Veasey; Gary Randle, executive director of HOPE Farm; and Jodie Mooty, vice president of Audit/Security
  

• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation®

  For the ninth year, Cash America teamed up with JDRF to raise money for the organization whose purpose is to find a cure for Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes. The campaign has grown significantly over time from a local effort in 2001—in which $5,754 was raised for JDRF’s Greater Fort Worth-Arlington Walk To Cure Diabetes—to a companywide effort that, through sneaker sales and multiple walks in the areas we operate, raised over $245,000 in 2009.

  
  

  JDRF is the world’s leading non-profit, non-governmental funder of diabetes research. Since its inception in 1970, the organization has raised more than $1 billion for diabetes research worldwide, including $156 million in fiscal year 2008 alone.

  
  

• Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

  Cash Americans participate in the 2009 Race For The Cure

  Cash America coworkers continue to set new records every year as more and more coworkers team up for the Komen Race For The Cure. On April 11, 2009, more than three dozen coworkers, family members and friends joined 15,000 others for the annual Tarrant County race. The event took place in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Cash America’s contributions to the event totaled over $25,000. Donations are used to assist local breast cancer patients with medical costs, provide low-cost mammograms, underwrite educational programs and pay for support services.

  
  

  Susan G. Komen For The Cure is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. The organization has invested nearly $1 billion to fulfill its promise, becoming the largest source of non-profit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world.

• TCU Reading Challenge

  

  Cash America teamed up with Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, as sponsor of the fourth annual TCU SuperFrog Reading Challenge—a program where student-athletes from the University’s 18 athletic programs partner with students from over 30 elementary schools in the Fort Worth Independent School District to encourage reading and improve reading skills. More than 5,000 students from grades 3-5 participate in the program that provides incentives such as tickets to TCU athletic events and coupons to local Cash America shops.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters®

  In 2008 Cash America presents a $80,000 check to Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas and fulfills multi-year commitment for $100,000.

  April 19, 2008, marked the start of a six-week "Think Big. Give Big." campaign to raise funds for Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), a national organization whose mission is to help children (littles) reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with mentors (bigs). And the Cash America family of companies raised over $80,000 for BBBS through the sale of BIG CASH cards for $1 each.

  
  

  Established in 1904, BBBS is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States. BBBS has been the leader in one-to-one youth services for more than a century, developing positive relationships between caring adults and children ages 6 through 18—relationships that have a direct and measurable impact on children’s lives.