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===Other funding initiatives===
===Other funding initiatives===


[[Eagles for St. Jude]] was a program created in 2007 by [[Stanford Financial Group]], when it paid to become title sponsor of the [[St. Jude Classic]], the annual PGA Tour event in Memphis. The program, and sponsorship, ended in February 2009, when it was found that Stanford Financial Group was a [[Ponzi scheme]], having defrauded investors out of $8 billion, with a small fraction of that stolen money having been channeled into the Eagles for St. Jude program.<ref name="Driver">{{Cite news |first=Anna |last=Driver |title=U.S. charges Stanford with massive Ponzi scheme |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51Q66G20090228 |work=[[Reuters]] |publisher=[[Thomson Reuters]] |date=27 February 2009 |access-date=28 February 2009 }}</ref>
[[Eagles for St. Jude]] was a program created in 2007 by [[Stanford Financial Group]], when it paid to become title sponsor of the [[St. Jude Classic]], the annual PGA Tour event in Memphis. The program, and sponsorship, ended in February 2009, when it was found that Stanford Financial Group was a [[Ponzi scheme]], having defrauded investors out of $8 billion, with a small fraction of that stolen money having been channeled into the Eagles for St. Jude program.<ref name="Driver">{{Cite news |first=Anna |last=Driver |title=U.S. charges Stanford with massive Ponzi scheme |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE51Q66G20090228 |work=Reuters |publisher=[[Thomson Reuters]] |date=27 February 2009 |access-date=28 February 2009 }}</ref>


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