Hockey Mom Foundation

12/29/2025

This morning, the Hockey Mom Foundation granted $25,000 to the Igniting Cancer Breakthroughs Fund at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Our donation will help train cell production specialists to enable the launch of studies investigating the use of CAR T-Cell therapy to treat adult and pediatric sarcoma, a rare cancer of bone and soft tissue. This therapy has already proven successful in treating liquid cancers. Under Igniting Cancer Breakthroughs, researchers will now turn their attention to improving efficacy in solid tumors.

Pictured are HMF Founder and Board President John Duke, HMF Volunteers Sabrina, Georgia, and Kristin Duke, and Roswell Senior Fundraising Manager Allison Lockwood.

09/05/2025

On Friday, September 19th, we will gather at Glen Oak Golf Club, East Amherst, NY for our 10th Annual Gator Open Golf Outing Fundraiser. Join us as we celebrate with family and friends, honoring Hockey Moms while raising funds for cancer research and patient care. Can’t make it? Sponsorship and donation opportunities are still available.

https://www.hockeymomfoundation.org/

07/15/2025

The 10th Annual Gator Open Golf Outing Fundraiser is September 19th, just two months away, and this year’s event will be our best yet! Whether you golf, join us for dinner/silent auction and raffle, sponsor the event, or donate, we appreciate your support of our mission to raise funds for cancer research and patient care. https://www.hockeymomfoundation.org/events

05/02/2025

Almost time to face-off for our Stanley Cup Playoff Fundraiser. Can you pick the winner? 🏒

https://www.hockeymomfoundation.org/stanley-cup-playoff-fundraiser

04/18/2025

https://www.hockeymomfoundation.org/events

Registration is Now Open for the 10th Annual Gator Open Golf Outing Fundraiser!🐊 We have made some updates to our registration process to make things easier for our participants and sponsors…please message us if you have any questions/comments!

We have big plan for our most successful fundraiser yet! Join us this September 19th for an amazing day honoring Hockey Moms while raising funds for cancer research and patient care!

03/12/2025

Save the date for the 10th Annual Gator Open Golf Outing Fundraiser, Friday, September 19th, 2025, Glen Oak Gulf Club, East Amherst, NY! Registration info coming soon.

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12/31/2024

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, friends, board, and volunteers, the HMF had the good fortune of providing grants to two cancer care/research programs at the close of 2024!

Last week, we granted $25,000 to Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center for their Pediatric Palliative Care Partnership with Oishei Children's Hospital Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorder Program. This program will support pediatric patients and families with a dedicated palliative care physician and advanced practice provider, aiming for improved pain and symptom management as well as optimized care coordination between palliative care, primary medical, and psychosocial teams.

Yesterday (pictured), we presented Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute a $20,000 grant. Masahiro Hitomi, MD, PhD, and his collaborators are establishing a novel therapeutic sensitivity array using patient-derived cancer cells to assist in treatment selection for patients with sarcoma, a rare type of tumor that develops in bone and soft tissue.

2024 was a great year for the Hockey Mom Foundation. We look to raise $50,000 at our September 2025 10th Annual Gator Open Golf Outing Fundraiser. Stay tuned for our save-the-date, and information on how to get more involved in our mission...honoring Hockey Moms by raising funds to make one-time foundational donations to non-profits focused on furthering cancer research, and the care of cancer patients. Happy New Year!

08/15/2023

Let's fill the 8th Annual Gator Open Golf Outing Fundraiser course on Friday, September 15th at Glen Oak Golf Club, East Amherst, NY, and raise money for cancer research and patient care! Go to https://www.hockeymomfoundation.org/events to register for golf or our dinner-only option.

Can't make the event? How about sponsoring a hole, donating a raffle or silent auction item, or offering a bottle or two for our wine pull fundraiser? Reach out in the comments if you'd like to donate an item.

07/27/2023

We are thrilled to announce our latest grant, $20,000 to positively impact pediatric patients in Cleveland Clinic Children's Better Care From Home initiative. Our grant goes directly toward remote patient monitoring tools, reducing the number of hospital visits for kids going through chemo while simultaneously minimizing the risk of infections. Access to these remote caregiving tools (Wireless temperature monitoring patches, Wireless Blood Pressure cuffs, Activity Trackers similar to Fitbit and Digital Health Toolkits that include medical devices) will significantly improve the quality of life during some of pediatric patient families’ most difficult times.

08/27/2022

Let's fill the course at the 7th Annual Gator Open Golf Outing Fundraiser, Friday, September 16th at Glen Oak Golf Club, East Amherst, NY, and raise money for cancer research and patient care! Go to https://www.hockeymomfoundation.org/events to register for golf or our dinner only option.

Can't make the event? How about sponsoring a hole, donating a raffle or silent auction item, or offering a bottle or two for our wine pull fundraiser?

07/23/2022

Registration for the 7th Annual Gator Open Golf Outing Fundraiser is open! Join us on Friday, September 16th at Glen Oak Golf Club, East Amherst, NY, to raise money for cancer research and patient care. Link to our events page for golf/dinner registration and sponsorship information.

https://www.hockeymomfoundation.org/golf-registration

02/18/2022

There is an abundance of “asking” in the nonprofit world…asking for financial and in-kind donations, for sponsorships, registrations, volunteers, help to spread the word...so much asking for help. It can feel repetitive, uncomfortable, even a bit daunting, but it is through the asking that we can have days like Tuesday, pure giving days, where because of the asking, an amazing cause can receive.

We are thrilled to share the fruits of our labor of asking, a $25,000 grant to a promising pediatric cancer treatment clinic trial. It’s our largest grant yet, and we thank our donors, sponsors, volunteers, supporters, and friends for their generosity that made this possible. We asked and Roswell Park recieved.

Cheers!

Thank you Hockey Mom Foundation for your generous donation to the pediatric clinical trial of , made possible by research from Dr. Katerina Gurova. Thanks to you, Dr. Gurova and her research team, can continue to save lives with this anticancer treatment. Thanks to you, we can continue advancing cancer treatments for pediatric patients across the world. 💙