The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS), Central PA (CPA) Chapter, presented a check to the Children's Miracle Network in the amount of $7,000 on July 26. The money was raised from the chapter's 2022 golf outing at Regents' Glen Country Club, located in York. The golf outing had the highest number of participants in the history of the event.

Those who took part in the check presentation were SMPS CPA members Carl Rinkevich and Amber Knauss, Katie Anderson from the Children's Miracle Network, SMPS CPA director-at-large and programs chair Christina McCullough and SMPS CPA membership chair Brooke Wenger.

Participants had the opportunity to hear from Gannon "Bubba," an 8-year-old boy, who shared his personal journey with the group. Gannon was delivered by emergency C-section on Dec. 11, 2013. When Gannon was born, he was 12 weeks premature and weighed only 13 ounces. Gannon was transferred to Penn State Children's Hospital by pediatric ambulance for a tracheostomy. The doctors did not think he would survive, but he did, earning him the nickname "Warrior Gannon Jr." After spending 225 days in the NICU, he was allowed to go home. Today, "Warrior Gannon Jr." continues to defy the odds and is thriving.

Children's Miracle Network is an international nonprofit organization that has affiliations with 170 children's hospitals. Penn State Health Children's Hospital, a member of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, raises funds in 10 counties: Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York, Adams, Franklin, Cumberland, Perry, Juniata and Mifflin. Since 1984, Children's Miracle Network has raised more than $87 million for Penn State Health Children's Hospital.

SMPS represents a network of more than 7,000 marketing and business development professionals from architectural, engineering, construction and specialty consulting firms throughout the United States and Canada. For more information about SMPS Central PA, visit http://www.smpscentralpa.org.