Goals for Good Pairs Charity with Sports Performance
The following article appeared November 30 on the Colgate Maroon-News Web site.
By Rebekah Ward
Imagine if every time your favorite team scored, you were not
only hollering about the game, but also cheering on a donation to
your community's dearest cause. Thanks to Goals for Good, the
brainchild of Colgate men's ice hockey captain senior Kevin
McNamara, the team's fans will see this unlikely combination play
out in every game this season.
Goals for Good is a charitable initiative that was spearheaded by
McNamara last spring. Each Eastern College Athletic Conference
(ECAC) hockey team has paired itself with a particular charity,
chosen based on the organization's significance to their team,
school or community. Fans are invited to go online to
www.goalsforgood.org, where they are able to select the team to
which they wish to donate. Through this website, donors are given
the option to choose the magnitude of their donation, and to decide
whether it will be added to the lump sum every time their team
scores, or for every team win. Now donations are ongoing, and for
the remainder of the season the website will keep a running tally
of the total based on the results of each game.
"In memory of Vic Krivitski, Colgate's hockey teams have decided
to partner with The Brendan Borek High Tides Memorial
Fund…they helped the Krivitskis throughout Vic's battle with
cancer, and through our goals and wins this year, we hope to help
raise money for Brendan's Fund so that they can continue to help
families in need," McNamara said. For him, this community-based
approach to selecting a charity is a way for teams to say thank you
to the people who have been supporting their hockey programs.
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