The Hockey Mom Foundation is an all volunteer organization that honors Hockey Moms everywhere by raising funds to make one time foundational donations to non-profits focused on furthering cancer research, and the care of cancer patients.
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Friday, September 19, 2025, Glen Oak Golf Club, East Amherst, NY
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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! Our 2025 donations total $45,000.
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
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. They have collected sarcoma cells to determine patient-specific anticancer drug sensitivity.
Testing various cell culture methods, the team aims to prepare a cell population that best represents
the tumor of the patient and establish quantitative measures to determine therapeutic sensitivity of
these cells. When established, this approach will provide data to reflect cancer cell susceptibility which
would minimize the chance of trial-and-error attempts, the drawback of current cancer treatment.
December 2023 grant of $25,000 for Car T-cell research at Roswell Park Cancer Institute
The Hockey Mom foundation represented the generosity of our donors by presenting a $25,000 check to Amanda Berg of the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation for a promising CAR T-cell therapy clinical trial. With therapy improvements in survival rates for patients with blood cancers, the team at Roswell Park is shifting focus to using their technology and discoveries to study CAR T-cell therapy on solid tumors like breast, lung, pediatrics, prostate and more. Renier Brentjens, MD, PhD is actively working on two clinical trials which look to improve CAR T-cell therapy. Those trials are in very early stages, but could bring about groundbreaking changes to the way cancer is treated.
In July of 2023, we were thrilled to announce a $20,000 grant to positively impact pediatric patients in Cleveland Clinic Children's Better Care From Home initiative. Our grant went 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) significantly improve the quality of life during some of pediatric patient families’ most difficult times.
