Tiger Woods and his father, Earl, founded the Tiger Woods Foundation
(TWF) in 1996. The organization aims to provide young people with
college-access programs with a focus on math, science, technology, and
engineering.
The flagship program of the TWF is the Tiger Woods Learning
Center (TWLC) in Southern California. The 35,000 square foot campus provides an
interactive learning environment for scholars from the 5th to the 12th
grade. Aside from academics, the TWLC also offers enrichment programs that
involve gold. Since its inception, the TWLC has expanded and opened up four
more campuses – one in Florida, another in Philadelphia, and two campuses in
Washington DC.
The TWC is also supported by the Earl Woods Scholarship
Program that provides a $5,000 scholarship which is renewable for up to four
years to deserving youth. The scholarship program’s support network also takes
care of the smaller details such as money for school supplies, books, plane
tickets so that the scholars can come home to visit their families, and a host
of other expenses.