To our valued Victory Fund contributors,

 

As the chairwoman of the IWGA Victory Fund, I want to thank you for your outstanding loyalty and generosity to the Victory Fund and its mission.

 

Since 1933, IWGA has strived to improve thousands of lives through its grants to collegiate women’s golf teams, scholarships to outstanding girls who also enjoy golf, veterans’ programs, and cancer research foundations. 

Next year, being the 90th Anniversary, brings many challenges and changes. 

 

Where once there were 25 active board members with a waiting list, it has now decreased to 12.  This core group has worked endlessly running 3 Championships each year as well as performing the annual tasks of selecting outstanding scholarship recipients and deserving collegiate women’s golf teams that need financial help.  At the end of 2023, 6 of the core group will be retiring, a retirement which they so richly deserve.

 

Sadly, as I’m sure you have witnessed at your own clubs and in your own lives, things have changed.  Like golf associations across the country, lifestyles have changed and procuring a succession of replacement volunteer board members has waned.

This leaves the future of the IWGA unclear.

 

Which brings me to the Victory Fund.  Should the IWGA dissolve, the Victory Fund will continue until all funds have been distributed as in the past.  The entire IWGA board as well as the IWGA bylaws and federal laws will ensure this.

 

Awards for this year’s contributions will be sent out in the spring as normal.  However, we will not be asking or campaigning for 2023 Victory Fund contributions until we know the future of the organization.  Any contributions received in 2023 will be added to the Victory Fund for proper distribution.

 

I cannot thank you enough for your past support and hope that the IWGA may be revitalized in 2023 to continue well into the future! 

 

Thank you,

 

Deanna Carstens

IWGA Victory Fund Chair