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2010 Matt Light and Peter King Locker Room Luncheon
Location: New England
Sports Illustrated’s illustrious football columnist Peter King teamed up with New England Patriots’ Left Tackle Matt Light to host a recent luncheon at Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse at Patriot Place in Foxboro, MA.
The dynamic fundraising duo, who have teamed up before for their respective causes, were joined this time by Pats’ wide receiver Julian Edelman and ESPNBoston’s Mike Reiss for an intimate fundraising event called the “Locker Room Luncheon: Inside the Patriots & the NFL.”
Thirty guests were treated to photos with King, Light and Edelman, and Reiss, autographs galore, and more than an hour of quality football talk.
King emceed a panel, and included some inside stories about the Patriots’ great run of the past, and their prospects for another title in the future. Teammates Light and Edelman revealed what it’s like to be members of a SuperBowl-winning franchise, and regaled the crowd with entertaining tales from both the locker room and the playing field.
The luncheon raised about $30,000 for the Light Foundation, which specializes in helping at-risk teens, and King’s charity of choice, The Greater Boston Food Bank.
“In Sports and Song” Fundraiser Benefits Saint Mary’s Abbey
Location: New England
On April 11, 2010, Patriots offensive tackle Matt Light joined American Idol finalist Ayla Brown for a fundraiser benefiting the new Saint Mary’s Abbey’s candy house that is currently under construction in Wrentham.
Light talked about his professional sports career and helped auction off Patriots memorabilia, as well as signed autographs.
As construction begins on the new candy house, the 46 nuns who reside in the adjacent convent are excited to replace an out-of-date factory with a new, bigger facility in which to make their Trappistine Quality Candy. The existing 55-year-old factory had been added to over the years, but its size makes for tight working quarters and its infrastructure is barely passing its health inspections. The new complex will be located right next door to the main building at Mount St. Mary’s Abbey, which will be more accessible to the nuns.
The sisters sell most of their candy during the Christmas season, and make about $500,000 annually from candy sales alone, more than half of which is used to cover the compound's expenses.
The second annual fundraiser raised more than $16,000 for the project, which will cost about $2 million to complete. Construction is expected to be completed by late 2010, or early in 2011. The sisters sell most of their candy during the Christmas season, and make about $500,000 annually from candy sales alone, more than half of which is used to cover the compound’s expenses.
Fighting Heart Disease and Defects
Location: Children’s Hospital Boston
The Light Foundation provided the Children’s Hospital Boston and Dr. Gerald Marx with an electrocardiogram—a medical device essential for 3–D echocardiography and the diagnoses of cardiovascular diseases and defects.
A Week in New England with the Patriots
Location: New England
Students from Ohio, Montana, and Massachusetts were selected based on school grades and rewarded with a weeklong trip to the Boston area to experience New England. As part of their trip, they got to attend a New England Patriots preseason game and a barbecue hosted by Matt and his wife.
Students from Ohio, Montana, and Massachusetts were selected based on school grades and rewarded with a weeklong trip to the Boston area to experience New England. As part of their trip, they got to attend a New England Patriots preseason game and a barbecue hosted by Matt and his wife.
They sailed in Rhode Island, enjoyed go-cart racing near Cape Cod, toured historic Boston—the adventures these kids experienced were a lot of fun. And at the end of the week, they all got to attend a Patriots preseason game—in serious style. The kids were allowed on the field for Patriots’ pre-game warm-ups, and, after watching the game, into the tunnel to eat dinner with the Patriots players.
On the last day, Matt and his wife hosted the group at their home for a barbecue and open discussion on goals, life skills and values. Matt enjoyed building relationships with the kids. “I loved spending time with those kids at my house,” he said. “We ate and talked and had fun.” A reward for a job well done.
