Management and Labor Join Forces At Forsgate Country Club With Respected Charity That Provides Care and Treatment For Children with Cancer and Other Catastrophic Diseases
NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (May 16, 2025) – The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) will again partner with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® and raise money for the world renowned and respected institution. The USMX-ILA Children’s Fund expects to present a check for over $100,000 this Monday, May 19th, 2025, at the 32nd Annual Charity Golf Outing at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township, New Jersey.
The annual USMX-ILA charity event has raised over $8 million in three decades for children’s charities.
International ILA President Harold J. Daggett and F. Paul De Maria, CEO & Chairman, USMX, serve as co-chairmen of this annual event.
“We are proud to that the ILA and USMX will uses its Children’s Fund Charity to support one of the greatest and most caring institutions – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – where families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food, so they can focus on helping their child live,” said the ILA and USMX said in a joint statement “The healing hands of St. Jude extend to all parts of the globe, offering customized care for some of the world’s sickest children.”
Nearly 300 golfers will fill the Banks and Palmer courses at Forsgate on Monday, May 19th, and tee off at 11 am. Hundreds more will attend the dinner and awards ceremony later in the day.
“The ILA and USMX noted that St. Jude is consistently ranked as one of the best places to donate by Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator. The ILA and USMX added that St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes to help doctors and researchers at local hospitals and cancer centers around the world improve the quality of treatment and care for even more children.
For more than three decades, the ILA and USMX raised over $8 million for children’s charities.
ILA President Harold Daggett, like St. Jude founder Danny Thomas, has maintained a life-long devotion to Saint Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes, and is grateful the USMX-ILA Children’s Fund raises funds for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
“I thank USMX for joining with the ILA to continue to help raise funds for children with cancer and that we will now be dedicating our efforts to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital,” said President Daggett.
