Island Harvest’s 15th Annual Golf Classic

Island Harvest, Long Island’s largest hunger relief organization, will host its 15th Annual Golf Classic at The Creek Club in Locust Valley.  To be held on Thursday, August 4, 2011, the fundraising event will honor Long Island businessman Stephen McDermott.  McDermott, a resident of East Meadow, NY, assisted Island Harvest in securing a new 24,000 square foot warehouse, serves on several committees and was a panelist at Island Harvest’s 2010 Hunger Summit.

McDermott is the CEO and Chairman of Hauppauge-based Professional Merchant Advance Capital, LLC (ProMAC), a company he founded in 2007.  ProMAC provides alternative financing for the healthcare and business services sectors.  Before ProMAC, he co-founded Newpoint Advisors, Doctors Care Network (DCN), and Pinecrest National Funding, LLC, as well as founded Stamford Capital Partners where he also served as CEO.  In all, McDermott has over twenty years of investment banking and private equity sales experience in the technology, healthcare, biotech, and real estate lending industries.

“Stephen’s dedication has been instrumental in Island Harvest’s growth this year,” said Randi Shubin Dresner, president and CEO, Island Harvest. “With his help we were able to secure a new 24,000 square foot warehouse to better serve the 285,000 Long Islanders who face this risk of hunger each and every day.”

The Classic will begin at 10:30 a.m. with brunch and registration, followed by a 12:00 p.m. shotgun start and will conclude with a highly popular beach party and awards celebration at 5:30 p.m.  Golf registration including the beach party is $800.00 per player, $3,200.00 for a foursome. To attend just the beach party at 5:30 p.m., tickets are $150.00 per person. As in the past, there will be some great prizes to be auctioned off at the beach party including a round of golf at some of the area’s most exclusive courses, NY-area sports teams’ memorabilia and sporting event tickets, gift certificates from some of LI’s leading restaurants, vacation trips, great merchandise and much more.

To register for the 15th Annual Golf Classic at The Creek or to inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Elissa Weick at (516) 294-8528, extension 16, or elissa@islandharvest.org.