NEEDTOBREATHE Classic Golf Tournament Raises $140,000 for Global Health Care

The 2014 NEEDTOBREATHE Classic golf tournament raised $140,000 last month in Daniel Island, South Carolina. The amount is almost double the profits from the 2013 event, which Charleston area nonprofit Palmetto Medical Initiative (PMI) will use to provide quality health care to people around the world. Commonwealth Cares Foundation partners with NEEDTOBREATHE to host the annual golf tournament and auction benefiting PMI. Last year's tournament raised about $80,000.

In a press release, Britt Gilbert of Commonwealth Cares Foundation and a PMI board member, talked about the event, saying, "The fact we raised so much more money this year demonstrates how much people believe in the work PMI is doing around the world. Not only did people come out to enjoy a game of golf and an after-party concert, but they were able to learn more about the concept of sustainable health care and the model that has made PMI so successful."

The money will cover about half the cost of a second clinic in Uganda that is scheduled to break ground in January 2015. PMI's first clinic was in Masindi, Uganda. The new clinic will serve as a satellite for the main Masindi-Kitara Medical Center, where more than 800,000 patients have received care since it opened. In January 2014, PMI dedicated its first clinic in El Viejo, Nicaragua.

This year, musicians and sports stars all made a good showing. NEEDTOBREATHE, Drew & Ellie Holcomb, Steven Curtis Chapman, Ed Roland of Collective Soul, Ben Rector, Mark Bryan and John Mark McMillan were joined on the green by professional golfers Kevin Streelman and Russell Henley. Matt Diaz of the Miami Marlins and Todd Ellis, the voice of the Gamecocks.

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