Grindstone Award Foundation | Providing hockey opportunities to female players in need.

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Our Mission

Our mission is at the heart of everything we do. Every day, the Grindstone Award Foundation strives to help more girls get involved in hockey, ensuring that any female with the desire to play has the opportunity — regardless of financial circumstances.

We are passionate about our work and look forward to continuing to create opportunities for young female hockey players to get into —and stay in — the game they love for years to come!

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The Moment

Watch the moment these young female hockey players found out that they could play hockey for another season thanks to Grindstone…

Unable to support Grindstone financially?

Here are some ways you can help us #HelpHerPlay!

We are so grateful for your earnest desires to help support us, so, to help you give back, we’ve made it super easy to find ways for you to help girls play hockey!

Choose Grindstone: Did you know that you can designate Grindstone as a charity partner for any event? Selecting the Grindstone Award Foundation for your event’s charity proceeds can increase visibility of the charity and helps raise funds for girls to play.
In-kind donations: Have a product or service that we can raffle off or utilize to further our fundraising goal? Auctions and raffles currently serve as a major source of our fundraising dollars. We’d love to hear from you with some more details on how we can help each other, and ultimately #HelpHerPlay!
Event promotions: Help promote the Grindstone Award Foundation in any fashion. Whether it’s inviting us to set up a booth at your event, advertising Grindstone at your activity or within your programming, donating proceeds from a raffle or another contest, we are always looking to grow our visibility.
Volunteer: Our entire team is made up volunteers. Even our Board of Directors give the gifts of time and effort to Grindstone. We are a small but mighty charity can always use an extra set of hands and new ideas to help us grow and thrive! Contact us to join our team of dedicated volunteers. Reach out to [email protected] for more information.

Team fundraising: Team fundraisers are a great way to raise funds for your season. Consider Grindstone when you are looking to donate part of the proceeds to charity! Have some extra cash sitting in your team’s bank account at the end of the season? Pay it forward and donate it as a team or as individuals!
Social media: Promoting our mission through your social media or other relevant channels and engaging with our content is a great way to ensure your followers and subscribers know about Grindstone as a resource. We are happy to cross-promote like-minded organizations to ensure both sides grow our respective brands.
Media features: Do you run sports blogs, podcasts or a YouTube channel that might be a good fit to share Grindstone’s story? Are you a member of the media looking to tell real and touching stories featuring the families and girls who receive Grindstone grants and the sponsors, donors, organizations, and volunteers that help make it all possible? We’d love the opportunity to discuss Grindstone’s goals with you and your audiences and share story ideas to inspire your audiences! Reach out to Kristen Lipscombe, Director of Marketing and Communications, at [email protected] for interview requests and story ideas today!

The list of ideas on how you can help us #HelpHerPlay is absolutely endless and we are open to your thoughts and feedback on how the Grindstone Award Foundation can enable girls in communities across the country to play hockey.

Please feel free to contact Grindstone at [email protected] with any feedback and ideas that we can work on together to put into action to continue getting more females onto the ice. Thank you for your support.

For media requests and story ideas, please reach out to [email protected].

Stories + Events

Girls Finding Their Why Through Grindstone’s Women’s Hockey Foundation

Mar. 25, 2024Read More

Grindstone at Vancouver Canucks annual Women’s Empowerment Night

Apr. 3, 2024Read More

Grindstone Award Foundation thrilled to welcome PWHL New York forward Emma Woods as official Help Her Play Ambassador

Apr. 4, 2024Read More

Check out Help Her Play: The Grindstone Blog for news, stories and much more!

Success Stories

She is thriving on this team, and it’s all because of you guys!

“I wanted to give a big thank you for my daughter’s grant this year. She is playing for a U11 B team as their only goaltender. Your grant allowed her to play this position for the year and to make friends and be physically fit. As a child with some disabilities- including chronic pain and Autism, she is thriving on this team, and it’s all because of you guys! Thank you isn’t enough and the gratitude I feel is so big. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!”