Goals for Good Update: Colgate Takes the Lead

HAMILTON, NY – After one weekend, Colgate University is in the lead having raised $175 for the Brendan Borek High Tides Memorial Fund. Quinnipiac University is currently in second place. The Bobcats raised $44 for the Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut. Brown finished the weekend in third place. They raised $40 for the Thomas E. Smith Fight to Cure Paralysis.

Goals For Good is excited about the start to ECAC Hockey play and getting this initiative rolling. “Despite launching late on Thursday afternoon, there was still a good response from fans around the league.” Kevin McNamara, Goals For Good Founder and a Colgate University senior captain on the men’s hockey team, said in regards to the first weekend of Goals For Good. “Everyone that is involved with Goals For Good is very optimistic about continuing to get more and more schools’ fans involved and raising money for some important causes.”

STANDINGS:

1) Colgate = $175
2) Quinnipiac = $44
3) Brown = $40
4) Rensselaer = $6
5) Yale = $3
6) Clarkson = $0
7) Cornell = $0
8) Dartmouth = $0
9) Harvard = $0
10) Princeton = $0
11) St. Lawrence = $0
12) Union = $0

All 12 ECAC Hockey members, both men and women, will take part in the competition, which will raise money for 12 different non-profit charities. Goals For Good was established to help local communities through competitive sports. Its purpose is to raise money for charities through donations from fans on a per goal or per win format. Visit www.goalsforgood.org to contribute.

Over the course of this past offseason, Goals For Good has collaborated with the captains of the men and women’s teams of ECAC Hockey. Each team is now partnered with a charity in close relation to the team, school, and/or community. The money that these teams raise through their goals and wins will go directly to their partnering charity.

“Goals for Good ties together many different aspects for my foundation with the most important being that we now have more advocates fighting for our cause, says Tucker Mullin, Co-Founder of The Thomas E. Smith Fight To Cure Paralysis.  “The amount of money raised will make a difference, but I find more value in how we will be expanding our reach in the hockey community and beyond. Our organization was established because my friend suffered two-separate paralyzing injuries playing the game we all have the privilege of playing every day. Anything we can do to stay involved in a sport that we are so closely connected to was one of our primary goals. Goals For Good is an organization that does just that, but not only for us, but for 11 other causes. It's the perfect vehicle to drive these causes into becoming more recognizable, and more successful."

The teams and charities have partnered as follows:
Brown University and the Thomas E. Smith Fight To Cure Paralysis
Clarkson University and Camp Ta-Kum-Ta
Colgate University and the Brendan Borek High Tides Memorial Fund
Cornell University and the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes
Dartmouth College and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Harvard University and the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation
Princeton University and Hockey Players for Kids
Quinnipiac University and the Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut
RPI and the Tyler DeMarco Foundation
St. Lawrence University and the St. Lawrence Valley Renewal House
Union College and the V Foundation
Yale University and the Mandi Schwartz Foundation

Donors will be able to donate a dollar amount per goal that their chosen team scores over the course of an ECAC Hockey weekend series or throughout the season. There is also an additional option for donating an amount per win. Goals For Good has partnered with PinkDingo.com to operate the donation sites for each team throughout the competition.

Goals For Good is hoping that the support from the teams, players, and charities, is a clear indication of the success that this competition will have this season. “Goals for Good is an amazing opportunity to help others while doing something that we love,” said Jordan Elkins, captain of the Quinnipiac University women’s hockey team. “Hopefully it will help us all realize how privileged we are to play hockey, while at the same time showing us how easy it is to make a difference if we all work together.”

In addition to the money raised for each team’s charity, Goals For Good is also looking for partnerships to provide bonus donations to teams that raise the most money over the course of the season. Thus far, the students, faculty, and staff of Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Massachusetts has pledged $1,000 to the local food cupboard/soup kitchen of the team that raises the most money. There are several current ECAC hockey players from Belmont Hill. They will be making this donation in support of their efforts through Goals For Good and the fight against hunger in the United States.

These bonus awards would not go to the charity that the team has partnered with. Instead, the bonus award would go to another area of need within the community. Such areas could be a local food cupboard, local firehouse, or a local youth hockey program to name a few examples.

“We're very happy to be partnered with the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes,” Cornell University men’s hockey captain, Keir Ross, said of their charity teammate for this season. “The fact that we help them out every time we score provides a little extra motivation and we're proud to be a part of Goals For Good.”

About PinkDingo: PinkDingo is a charitable web-platform that is partnering with Goals For Good to help process donations. They focus on event-triggered giving applications much like donating by goal or win.

About Belmont Hill School: Belmont Hill was established in 1923 for boys in the 7th through 12th grade. The school is a member of the Independent School League, and former Harvard hockey player, Jeremiah McCarthy, coaches the school’s hockey team. Current ECAC hockey players from Belmont Hill School include Kevin and Jack McNamara of Colgate, Brandon McNally of Dartmouth, John Caldwell of Harvard, and Mike Condon of Princeton.

For more information, please contact Kevin McNamara - Kevin@goalsforgood.org.

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