NAIOP tournament benefits children’s center

Business professionals enjoyed the opportunity to hit the links and show off their golfing skills while raising funds for the Jack & Jill Children’s Center.

The 34th annual NAIOP South Florida Charity

Golf Tournament was able to navigate around the COVID-19 lockdown and conduct the event at the Grande Oaks Golf Club in Davie.

The tournament generated over $21,000 for the Fort Lauderdale-based center, which is the oldest nonprofit provider of early childhood education in Broward County.

Over the last five years, the NAIOP South Florida organization has raised over $100,000 for the charity. The funds will help and educate children coming from high-need working families to ensure they will have the necessary skills to succeed in life.

“We were so excited to be able to have our annual golf tournament this year, in light of everything happening, and at the same time be able to raise funds for such an incredible organization,” said NAIOP South Florida Executive Director Jules R. Morgan. “While the pandemic continues to create uncertainty, local nonprofits depend on events like ours to keep their doors open and their programs operational. Thank you to our generous NAIOP South Florida members and sponsors whose donations and time made this event a success.”

The winning foursome received the royal treatment where they got to wear the green jackets while being presented with the championship trophies. The tournament winners were Peter Crane, Sansone Group; John Fox-Snider, Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A.; Brandon Woulfe, SRS

Real Estate Partners; and Geoffrey Temple, First American Title Insurance Company - National Commercial Services Division. Coming in second place was the team of Chase Kulp, Cushman & Wakefield; Joe Freitas, Cushman & Wakefield; and Will Portfolio, CBRE.

The NAIOP South Florida is part of the Commercial Real Estate Development Association and South Florida is the largest chapter in the state.

NAIOP is the leading organization for developers, owners and professionals in the office, retail and mixed-used use real estate and is a proponent of responsible real estate development while promoting effective public policy.

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Real Estate was the host sponsor. Overcoming the obstacles of COVID-19 and putting on the first in-person event in over nine months was the golf tournament planning committee headed by co-chair Ryan Nee, first vice president/district manager of Marcus & Millichap and next year’s 2021 president-elect of NAIOP South Florida, and Greg Martin, Avison Young.

Visit jackandjillcenter. org and naiopsfl.org.

NAIOP South Florida raised $21,000 for the Jack & Jill Children’s Center at its annual charity golf tournament. Tournament winners were Peter Crane, Sansone Group; John Fox-Snider, Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A.; Brandon Woulfe, SRS Real Estate Partners; and Geoffrey Temple, First American Title Insurance Company - National Commercial Services Division.

Members of the Jack & Jill Children’s Center, from left, Alana Wortsman, Kathy Capobianco, Jennifer Swercheck, Patti Hommes and Jeanette Johnson were on hand at the tournament.