SMART Recognizes Top Sponsors for Golf Outing Benefiting Special Olympics

PHILADELPHIA, PA August 28, 2007 – SMART Business Advisory and Consulting, LLC, today announced that IKON Office Solutions is the Gold Sponsor of the 2007 Benefit Golf Tournament, and CIGNA, Citizens Bank, and Cozen O’Connor are Bronze Sponsors of the event which supports the Special Olympics PA (SOPA).

 “We are excited about supporting the Special Olympics PA for the fifth year in a row,” says John Swanick, Executive Office Managing Director at SMART. “With the help of our generous sponsors, we hope this event will be the most successful one yet.”

The golf tournament will sponsor SOPA’s Fall Festival at Villanova University (Nov. 2 – 4, 2007).  SMART is the premier sponsor for the festival and this tournament is the first major fundraising event to benefit the 2007 Festival. The Fall Festival is the largest collegiate-run Special Olympics event in the country with over 1,000 athletes and 2,000 volunteers.

The Golf Tournament will take place on October 1, 2007 at the Overbrook Golf Club in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. To learn about Sponsorship and Golfing Opportunities, visit www.smartgrp.com/events.asp. Helping just one more athlete participate in the Special Olympics program makes our golf outing a success.

About SMART

SMART Business Advisory and Consulting, LLC (www.smartgrp.com) is a premier, full-service business consulting and advisory company serving clients throughout the US and globally. SMART offers innovative solutions to public and private companies in the areas of business consulting and advisory, technology, business process, accounting, compensation and benefits, and tax. Through an alternative practice structure, SMART and Associates, LLP offers a full range of attest services.

About Special Olympics

Special Olympics is a life-changing movement of people helping people. The athletes are constant reminders of all that is right with the human spirit. The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.

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