Events

The Ralph Kaufman Memorial Golf Tournament has been the organization’s main fundraiser for 30 years. The support of our golfers, dinner auction, guests and individual/corporate sponsors has helped us raise well over 1.5 million dollars to support local Veterans and children’s charities.

The tournament is a four-person scramble held annually in early fall. The tournament begins with lunch followed by golf and concludes with a wine tasting, open bar and dinner auction. Beautiful Whitmoor Country Club has hosted the tournament for the past seven years.

Trees For Vets

Annually, Trees for Vets gives away over 300 Christmas trees and stands, “Free of Charge”, to Veterans and their families to enjoy the Christmas Holiday Season. Since this program began in 2014 over 2,000 trees have been given to deserving families. We have several businesses that we have partnered up with over the years support this program. We intend to continue and grow this program in he future. Any funds collected that exceed the tree expenses are donated to local charities we support.

If you would like to be a sponsor or help this program, contact Irwin Loiterstein at irwin@thekaufmanfund.org

Trees for Vets will be held in early December 2021

Food for Vets

The Kaufman Fund is proud to announce the creation of a new program “Food for Vets” to support Veterans in need in our community. The issue of food insecurity among the Veteran population is a significant and growing. This program will address this problem and TKF expects to reach 400 Veterans and their families in 2021. The first food event was held on March 20th at the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry and fed nearly 50 Veteran families and almost 125 people overall. Each Veteran received enough food for almost 10 days that will feed their household. The goal is to see the Veteran be able to go to our partner food pantries on a regular basis after they are registered and attend the event.

Our next Food for Vets event is on Friday, July 29th with The Salvation Army, 20 Glory Place, Belleville, IL.