Three-time New England Patriots Super Bowl Champion and cancer survivor, Joe Andruzzi, will unite former teammates, current players, celebrities, family and friends for the New England Celebrities Tackle Cancer Gala benefiting the Joe Andruzzi Foundation on Monday Nov. 7. 

This year’s event kicks off with a symposium just prior to the Gala, hosted by keynote speaker the Director of Pediatric Medical Neuro-Oncology at the Dana-Cancer Institute, Dr. Mark Kieran. The Gala will continue with an evening of special guests, food tastings, and an auction featuring priceless sports memorabilia, entertainment packages and more.

The Joe Andruzzi Foundation offers financial assistance to cancer patients and their families and raises funds for ongoing pediatric brain cancer research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Boston.

Joe Andruzzi and his wife, Jen, will welcome an impressive roster of celebrities to their fourth annual Gala fundraising event. Past celebrities in attendance have included Patriots players Tom Brady, Matt Light, Stephen Gostkowski Dan Koppen, Logan Mankins, Rob Gronkowski, and more; former Patriots Matt Chatham, Troy Brown, Stephen Neal and more.

The Joe Andruzzi Foundation was founded in 2008 to help cancer patients and their families make mortgage, rent, and utility payments during financially difficult times, and to fund pediatric brain cancer research. Joe Andruzzi, a former offensive guard with the New England Patriots, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Burkitt’s lymphoma in 2007 and was treated at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Cancer-free less than a year later, Joe dedicated his life to supporting other cancer patients. The Joe Andruzzi Foundation is Joe and his wife Jen’s second philanthropic effort; in 2003, they started the C.J. Buckley Cancer Research Fund at Children’s Hospital Boston in memory of C.J. Buckley, a young man with an inoperable brain tumor who had touched their hearts before his death in 2002.