HAMILTON, NY (1/31/2011) – There's only four weekends left in the regular season, and the standings have drastically changed since the start of the inaugural Goals For Good competition.

Colgate University remains in first place with $3,331 for the Brendan Borek High Tides Memorial Fund. Harvard has done outstanding work jumping up to second place having raised $681 for the Friends of JaclynFoundation. A mainstay in the top three, Brown sits in third place with $478 raised for the Thomas E. Smith Fight to Cure Paralysis.

“It has been great to see more and more people get involved each week,” Colgate junior defenseman, Thomas Larkin, said of the growing initiative. “There have been some great extra efforts put in by some schools,” Colgate senior and Goals For Good founder, Kevin McNamara added. “The teams that have held 50/50 raffles, 'chuck-apuck', and other promotions for their charities have done some incredible work,” he continued.

GOALS FOR GOOD AND THE AUTISM AWARENESS PROJECT
The Colgate women's hockey team has held an annual Autism Awareness Project to benefit Autism Speaks. This season, Goals For Good has been invited to partner with this project. The Colgate women have a number of promotions to raise money and awareness for Autism Speaks, but Goals For Good will be working with the project's raffles and online auction. Raffle items include:

• Syracuse Crunch signed jersey
• Jim Craig signed Team USA jersey
• Voucher for one pair of Bauer APX skates
• Bauer Autism Speaks stick signed by Colgate men's and women's hockey
• Gift basket from the Colgate Bookstore
• Gift basket from the Colgate Inn

The raffle will be set up for men's and women's home games through February 18th.

The online auction will be held from February 3rd-18th. The auction website will be posted to the Goals For Good website and Facebook page. Auction items include:

• Sidney Crosby signed Penguins jersey
• Alex Ovechkin signed Capitals jersey
• Henrik Lundqvist, Marian Gaborik & Dan Girardi signed All-Star Game jersey
• Jim Craig signed Team USA jersey
• Ray Allen signed Boston Celtics jersey
• Taylor Hall signed Oilers jersey
• Ryan Kessler signed stick
• Eric Staal signed stick
• Colgate women's hockey Autism Awareness Project jerseys

Standings-School-Money Raised
1) Colgate $3,331
2) Harvard $681
3) Brown $478
4) Dartmouth $403
5) Princeton $371
6) Yale $218
7) RPI $183
8) Quinnipiac $132
9) Cornell $75
10) Union $14
St. Lawrence $0
Clarkson $0

WHAT IS GOALS FOR GOOD
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 TaKumTa
• 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 $1,500 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.