This year’s fifth annual Workday Charity Classic, which took place yesterday on Wednesday, August 28 at the Stanford University Golf Course, brought together athletes, celebrities, state and local leaders, education partners and many more to raise money and awareness for Stephen & Ayesha Curry’s philanthropic foundation Eat. Learn. Play.
Attendees included Stephen and Ayesha Curry, Brandi Chastain, Peyton Manning, Steve Young, Larry Fitzgerald, the President and CEO of Eat. Learn. Play., Chris Helfrich, Chairperson of Workday Aneel Bhusri, CEO of Workday Carl Eschenbach and more.
This year, the Workday Charity Classic raised more than $7 million dollars for the Bay Area community and beyond. Announced by Bhusri and the Curry’s yesterday, the entirety of this $7 million dollars will go directly towards benefiting Eat. Learn. Play.’s initiative to raise and invest more than $25 million dollars over the next five years to assist with improving reading levels of youth two or more grade levels behind through one-on-one tutoring. This significant commitment marks Eat. Learn. Play.’s largest investment in the literary space, showcasing how integral this cause is to Stephen and Ayesha and their goal to transform the school experience for a generation of Oakland students.
With the mission to unleash the potential within every child, since 2019, Eat. Learn. Play. has made a tremendous impact across its three pillars—Eat, Learn, and Play—by delivering more than 25 million meals, investing $4.5 million+ in literacy programs, and revitalizing and building 15 school and community playspaces throughout Oakland.
