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Join us for a one-of-a-kind golf outing to support Michigan families battling cancer. This August 23rd, the Hero Foundation will once again be holding the Al Knake Memorial Golf Outing. You can register for the event, donate or sponsor here: https://birdease.com/heroswing The Details Course: Dunham Hills GC, Hartland, MI Shotgun Tee Off: 1:00 pm What’s Included: 18 holes of golf, …

With our dedicated team in Southeast Michigan once again going the extra mile, this year’s Magnum 11 party at the Fowling Warehouse on September 14th was another fundraising success. Sponsored by our friends at Balke’s Hard Cider, we had a swarm of moustachioed, Hawaiian shirt and Detroit Tigers hat-wearing Magnum PI doppelgangers attend this year’s event. Guests were treated to …

Outing #1 On August 24th we brought back the Al Knake Memorial Golf Outing after a brief hiatus. 23 teams joined us at the beautiful Westwynd Golf Course in Oakland County. The course was in excellent condition, and three teams tied with a low score of 54, with one team taking the victory by winning a skin on the course’s …

Another year and another fabulous event from our friends at the Sigma Pi Theta-Rho fraternity at Grand Valley State University. 2024’s Power Play on Cancer Event was held at Griff’s Icehouse in Hudsonville, Michigan, and brought out the best hockey players from four Grand Valley fraternities to battle it out in a two-game tournament before a crowd of extremely rowdy …

One of the things we’ve always hung our hat on here at the Hero Foundation is how effective we are with your donations. Since everyone in the organization is a volunteer, and we don’t pay for office space, we can get a lot of mileage out of the money that comes in. Also, I think it’s important to be transparent. …