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Our mission is to help families tackle childhood cancer by providing financial, emotional and practical support. From diagnosis to recovery and beyond, we are part of the team, allowing parents to focus on their child’s well-being. Our goal is to BE THERE for parents facing the unthinkable so they can BE THERE for their families.
COACH’S CORNER Dear Friends, In football, we talk about consistency, discipline, and showing up every day. Those same values have defined your unwavering support of the Jay Fund. For 31 years, I’ve had the privilege of watching communities do what great teams do: show up for each other through thick and thin. You have turned moments of uncertainty into stability. You have provided strength where it was needed most. Most remarkably, you have done it with a level of commitment that makes an old-school coach believe in the good in humanity. Because of that commitment, families have never had to face childhood cancer alone. The Jay Fund grew out of a promise I made at the funeral of Jay McGillis -- to help families facing childhood cancer. When I became the first head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Jay Fund truly began to take shape and gave me the opportunity to make good on my word. Later, as head coach of the New York Giants, we were proud to expand the Jay Fund’s mission to New York and New Jersey, supporting even more families tackling childhood cancer. What started as a small effort is now a lasting source of help and hope for those who need it most. Not because of any one person, and certainly not because of me, but because of a community that understood the game plan. When there is a need, you meet it. When there is a family struggling, you step in, for this simple reason: it’s the right thing to do.
Coach Tom Coughlin visiting a Jay Fund patient in the 1990s
Thank you for your generosity, your loyalty, and your unwavering belief in taking care of one another. No one fights childhood cancer alone. It takes a team. Thank you for being a part of ours. With gratitude,
Coach Tom Coughlin Founder, Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation
Coach Tom Coughlin & Keli Coughlin Joyce visiting Jay Fund patient Klayton in April