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Sherwood Cares Shares Golf Proceeds in Conejo

Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundation, also known as Sherwood Cares, donated $285,000 to 10 local charities during the Invesco QQQ Championship professional golf tournament the club held at its course in Thousand Oaks from Oct. 25 to 28. With the grants, the foundation has now donated more than $1 million dollars since it began making donations in 2015. “We are excited to be able to give back to back to our community by supporting programs that address our mission, which is helping whom and children with their medical, safety and nutritional needs,” said Sherwood Cares President George Carney in a statement. “With this grant cycle we are excited to have exceeded $1 million dollars to local charities. This far exceeds our expectation and clearly shows that Sherwood members do care about or local community and those in need.” The 10 most recent grants were given to the Boys & Girls Clubs of the West Valley, the Cancer Support Community Valley/Ventura/Santa Barbara, American Red Cross Ventura County, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Conejo Valley, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme, Casa Pacifica, Habitat for Humanity, Healthy Smiles – United Way of Ventura County, My Stuff Bags and NAMI Ventura County. The Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundation was founded in 2012. In addition to making grants, the foundation sponsors events and participates in community service days. Cal Lutheran Gift California Lutheran University announced Oct. 24 that it has received a $6 million donation – the largest single gift in its history. The money was pledged by Steve Dorfman, the former Hughes Electronics Corp. vice chairman, and it will go toward construction of a School of Management building on the Thousand Oaks campus. The two-story, 27,000-square-foot Steven D. Dorfman Center will bring most of the school’s faculty offices together with classrooms under one roof for the first time. It was a need Dorfman recognized as a member of the school’s advisory council. “I could see their enormous success, but I could also see the limitations of their current infrastructure, with faculty and students spread all over campus,” said Dorfman, who lives across the street in University Village Thousand Oaks. “I’ve always been interested in education, and I saw an opportunity for me to make a significant difference at Cal Lutheran by sponsoring an attractive new School of Management building located right in the center, centralizing operations and enhancing the look and feel of the campus,” he said in a prepared statement. He added that it will allow the management school “to move to the next level and on its way to become one of the leading business schools on the West Coast.” “This is one of the most significant developments in the evolution of the School of Management, and we are deeply grateful to Mr. Dorfman for his vision and his generosity,” said the management school’s dean, Gerhard Apfelthaler, in a statement. During his time at Hughes, Dorfman served as the chief executive of Hughes Space and Communications Co., Hughes Telecommunications and Space and Hughes Communications. His responsibilities ranged from directing the landing of five probes on Venus to helping create Direct TV. He received NASA’s highest honor, the Distinguished Public Service Award. The school said that with Dorfman’s gift and about $500,000 from other donors, Cal Lutheran will begin public fundraising and planning. The building will be constructed where Nygreen Hall, an assemblage of portable classrooms completed in 1973, currently stands. A grand lobby with glass curtain walls will face Memorial Parkway. The school offers undergraduate programs in business administration as well as MBAs and master’s degrees in information technology, management, public policy and administration and quantitative economics. TV Academy Tournament The 19th Annual Emmys Golf Classic raised $335,000 for the Television Academy Foundation at the Wilshire Country Club in Los Angeles. The North Hollywood-based foundation funds educational programs for students to pursue careers in television. The event was hosted by Cedric the Entertainer. “Our sincerest gratitude to Cedric the Entertainer and all of the stars who participated in this year’s Emmys Golf Classic,” Madeline Di Nonno, chair of the Television Academy Foundation, said in a statement. “Along with our sponsors, their support helps sustain the foundation’s exceptional education programs, which provide professional experience, industry access and career pathways for students with diverse backgrounds.” The Television Academy Foundation was started in 1959. Staff Reporter Ethan Varian can be reached at (818) 316-3130 or [email protected].

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