12th Annual Love McKinley Charity Golf Tournament

Six weeks after her second birthday McKinley Moore was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.  In April 2016, shortly after her diagnosis, the Love McKinley organization sprang to life.  Inspired by the love and support that they received throughout McKinley’s treatment, her parents along with close friends and family, made the decision to help others in similar circumstances.With a focus on supporting families in the local Tampa Bay area, the organization has partnered with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL.  In 2017 and 2018 alone our partnership with the hospital helped raise over $150,000 that has been utilized by the Cancer and Blood Disorders Institute to improve patient care. Additionally, these contributions have helped JHACH become the first pediatric facility in the state of Florida to offer the lifesaving CAR-T cell therapy. Other initiatives include improved patient resources at JHACH, monetary grants to support local families, and contributions to pediatric cancer research organizations such as the Benjamin Gilkey Fund for Innovative Cancer Research.Our goal is to ensure that local families have all possible treatment options available to them here in our community. This year’s goal will be to help bring JHACH online as a full CAR-T cell processing center. This will allow the hospital to not only administer the treatment but also process and store the cells needed for this therapy. A treatment which costs close to $500,000 per patient. Our aim is to ensure that Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital continues to be one of the best treatment facilities in the nation and continues to forge ahead in the field of pediatric cancer research and treatment.This unexpected and long journey these these families must undergo, are tiresome, frustrating, painful and fearful.  No one wants to see a child suffer, especially not there own.  Our hope is that through our fundraising efforts we can ease the burden on families going through this fight. Whether it is helping to pay the monthly bills or providing an entertaining distraction for a young patient during a prolonged clinic visit, our goal is to make this battle one that families do not have to fight alone.

Love McKinley

Love McKinley Charity Auction & Golf Tournament.  Proceeds raised will support pediatric cancer patients, families, treatment and research.

St. Petersburg Catholic High School

The Love McKinley organization has raised over $1.5M since its inception in 2016. These funds are used to support local families in the Tampa Bay and fund programs, research and treatment at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg. The weekend will begin Friday evening July 17 at 7pm at the St. John Bosco Center for the Arts at St. Petersburg Catholic High School for our dinner and silent/live auction. On Saturday July 18 our golf tournament will follow with a 1pm shotgun start at the Bardmoor Golf Course. Registration begins at 11.30 am. Various ticket and sponsorship opportunities are available. Registered golfers will have admission +one to the Friday Dinner and Auction. Separate tickets for the Friday night Dinner and Auction are also available. Food and Open Bar included in ticket purchase.

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