Welcome to the Al Knake Memorial Golf Outing Benefiting The Hero Foundation! The outing will take place at White Lake Oaks on Saturday, August 27th, 2022. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. Coffee and donuts will be available in the morning. A light lunch will be available on the turn. There will be prizes …
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In Memory of a True Hero
For those of you familiar with the Hero Foundation, you definitely got to know Al Knake. If you joined us for the annual golf outing, of course, his presence (and consistent wins in the long drive competition) were the stuff of legend. More importantly, his initial cancer diagnosis with pancreatic cancer and his successful fight against the disease was the …
2021 Hero Foundation Golf Outing
Welcome to the 12th annual Hero Foundation Golf Outing! The outing will take place at White Lake Oaks on Saturday, August 28th, 2021. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. Coffee and donuts will be available in the morning. A light lunch will be available on the turn. There will be prizes on the course …
2nd Annual Sigma Pi Theta-Rho Golf Outing 9/12/2020
After the rousing success of the outing in 2019 we’re pleased to partner up again in 2020 with the Sigma Pi Theta-Rho Chapter at Grand Valley State University for another golf outing. Register now! Once you’ve registered, let us know who’s on your team by filling out the form in the link below. List your team Register now! Once you’ve …
Hero Foundation Holiday Donations
The Holidays are a great time of need for Michigan families battling cancer. While bills pile up it can be hard to keep the house warm, the kids in warm clothes, or put presents under the tree. Please help us make Christmas special this year by donating to the Hero Foundation this Holiday season via the link below. If you …
11/21/2019 World Pancreatic Cancer Day
The Hero Foundation is happy to help Michigan families impacted by cancer of all types. That said, multiple members of the Hero Foundation family have been impacted by this horrible disease, so this form of cancer really hits close to home. You can learn a bit about one of these stories in the video below. What is pancreatic cancer? Pancreatic …
Mitch Albom Interviews Chief Hero Katie Larsen
The Hero Foundation was the focus of Mitch Albom’s The Heart of Detroit Series on Local 4 News in Detroit recently where he sat down to discuss the Hero Foundation’s mission with Chief Hero Katie Larsen. You can watch that video below. Hero Foundation StaffThe Hero Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides financial assistance to Michigan families impacted …