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Healthier Holiday Cookie Recipe

Stick to your wellness goals AND eat delicious cookies?? Seems like a good plan to us! Eating healthy foods that are also delicious isn’t impossible. This holiday season enjoy this healthier, but still incredibly tasty chocolate chip cookie recipe. This recipe cuts down on the sugar, a great strategy to help reduce breast cancer risk. [...]

Our Generous Supporters Shop for a Cause

Taking an active role in the community has been an integral part of the Castagna Realty Retail Group’s mission. Since 1996, their Champions for Charity shopping event has donated 25% of full-price, pre-tax purchases at participating stores to the not-for-profit organization of the shopper’s choice. The Maurer Foundation has been fortunate to benefit from the [...]

Rallye Motor Company Partners With The Maurer Foundation

Draping their fleet of Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Lexus vehicles in pink ribbons, The Rallye Motor Company helped The Maurer Foundation celebrate breast cancer awareness month in style! For the entire month of October, a portion from their Sales & Service Departments was donated to support breast health education. In total they raised $4,000! This generous donation [...]

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Pink Bowl 2022 was a Howling Success!

Melville, NY, October 30, 2022: The Maurer Foundation ended the month of October on a great note with the Pink Bowl! Our Halloween theme was quite the success as the lanes filled up with vampires, soccer players, cats, and Descendants. This year our event sponsor was Nawrocki Smith. Their clever team names and matching shirts [...]

A Night of Celebration in Support of our Life-Saving Mission

  Photos From the Pink Diamond Gala Courtesy of SilverFox Photography. Click here to view the entire event photo gallery and download your favorites. The Maurer Foundation kicked off this year’s breast cancer awareness month, raising over a quarter of a million dollars at our annual Pink Diamond Gala! Almost 300 guests came out in support [...]

Getting a Jump Start on Breast Cancer Prevention

With high school students focused on making the varsity squad, getting into their dream college, and which TikTok video just went viral; they are losing sight that their lifestyle choices can have a dramatic lifelong impact on their breast health. Research reveals that the mammary gland in young men and women undergoes significant structural changes [...]

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Celebrate Dr. Maurer’s Retirement

Dr. Maurer caught by surprise! After 35 years of practicing medicine, it is hard to calculate Dr. Maurer’s indelible impact in numbers alone. Her impact goes beyond just the thousands of patients she has treated or even the thousands of breast surgeries she has performed. Her legacy can only attempt to be captured in some [...]

The Brightening Outlook for Patients with HER2+ Breast Cancer

Not all breast cancers are created equal. Historically those patients with hormone-driven breast cancer had better outcomes compared to those with HER2+ breast cancer. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)/Neu is a kinase protein involved in normal cell growth. Sometimes there are errors in the genes that control the HER2 protein. This causes us to [...]

Bikers Raise $15,000 at the 8th Annual Motorcycle Ride

Click below to play the video from the 2022 Motorcycle Ride Video & Editing by Alexandrias Marketing Photos from the 2022 Motorcycle Ride The weather was spectacular for our Motorcycle Ride on June 5th as almost 200 participants took to the road for The Maurer Foundation’s 8th Annual Motorcycle Ride, our largest ride to date, raising over [...]

Our Supporters Raise Over $315,000 at the 27th Annual Golf Classic

There was excitement in the air as 200 golfers hit the links for our 27th Annual Golf Classic, raising over $315,000 for breast health education. Held on May 10th, supporters teed off at two of Long Island’s most prestigious courses, Old Westbury Country Club and Meadow Brook Club. The day featured contests in a variety [...]