After granting more than $320,000 for scholarships to 170 students in 2024, the Promotional Products Education Foundation has teed up another strong year of fundraising in 2025.
The foundation’s largest annual fundraiser, the Glen Holt & Fran Ford Memorial Golf Tournament, topped $47,000 in proceeds on Monday.
The event was again held at Las Vegas’s Bali Hai Golf Club, near Mandalay Bay Convention Center. One hundred golfers comprising 25 teams played in the event.
The late Holt, MAS, was a former PPAI board member and Hall of Fame inductee who passed away in 2010, and Fran Ford Jr., CAS, was president of supplier Castelli, a division of The Magnet Group, and PPAI Hall of Fame inductee who passed away in 2018. As a dedicated supporter of PPEF, Ford launched the PPEF Glen Holt Scholarship Golf invitational in 2014. The tournament celebrates their lasting legacies with PPEF scholarships named in their honor.
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PPEF exists to provide scholarships to the children of workers in the promotional products industry, as well as adult learners already working in the field. Since 1989, PPEF has donated more than $3.6 million to more than 2,000 students.
The foundation is accepting applications for scholarships in the 2025-26 academic year until March 15. Recipients will be announced in June.
Prior to the event, PPEF board member D’Anna Zimmer, who led organization of the tournament, was presented with her trophy as the 2025 PPAI Distinguished Service Award winner.
