Look at the great cards below, designed by the students at Batavia’s St. Joe’s School and shared with Laurie Napoleone. The children sell the cards to benefit the Foundation.
A & A Maple hosts fundraising event
In March 2026, the Napoleone Foundation was the recipient of donations from A & A Maple’s spring open house. This wonderful family business in Attica NY has been supportive for many years and we THANK YOU!!
Hoops For Hope 2026
January 31st was the date. Batavia High, Notre Dame, and York Central were the schools that participated in a great night of basketball. Thanks to all those involved for helping raise funds for the Foundation!
Thank you to our Sponsors: Applied Business Systems, C.S. Excavating, Ficarella's Pizzeria, Hodgins Engraving, KMS Dance Studio, Salmon Orthodontics, The Sunny Rathod Realty Team, The York Golden Knights, UBMD Surgery
$43,000 received from "Hope Rises" in September 2025
Other organizations received a portion of the total amount shown on the check held by Mark Napoleone, Kate Glaser and Laurie Napoleone
Hoops for Hope 2025
On February 8th, some great basketball games were played between Batavia High, Notre Dame and Lockport schools to raise money for the Foundation. Thank you to the spectators, teams, coaches, officials, scorekeepers, and volunteers for participating.
Haun Welding gives back to the community
Thank you, Steve Barnum from Haun Welding, for the donation to the Foundation and Lending a Hand for Hope. We are honored to be one of the charities you support.
Right - Steve presents the check to Laurie Napoleone.
Olsen Brothers Mountain Climb
The Olsen Brothers made a successful climb of Mount Kilimanjaro! The generous donors who supported them gave over $20,000! We are very grateful that they chose our Foundation to receive the monies. Families in WNY dealing with a cancer diagnosis will benefit from Owen & Eli’s hard work.
Hoops for Hope 2024
Thank you to everyone who came out to support Hoops for Hope in January! It was a great community event! The athletes played hard on the court and the proceeds benefitted the Foundation! That's a victory for everyone!!
St. Joe's Kids Helping Kids
Thank you to the 2nd Grade Class at St. Joseph's School in Batavia for creating beautiful artwork on Christmas cards and selling them for the Foundation!
2022 Mr. Batavia Event
Matthew Smith with his parents at the show.
CONGRATULATIONS to Matt Smith (Batavia High School) on being runner-up in the recent Mr. Batavia competition.
Matt was quoted on theBatavian.com: “…I learned about Michael's story, what the family went through and what every family who is fighting cancer right now, so I decided there was no other charity I wanted to represent, and thankful to raise 25 percent towards the foundation to fight cancer.”
Matt and Laurie Napoleone at the donation presentation.
The Foundation received a donation of $959.25.