FC44 Foundation, Inc., an exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, celebrates and remembers Kurt Patrick Murnen (1979-1999). The Foundation serves to provide a specific mission:
- Perpetuate Kurt’s legacy
- Fight cancer
- Fund a scholarship awarded at Archbishop Alter High School
To perpetuate Kurt’s legacy, we first need to tell his story. By creating awareness, we hope for Kurt to be remembered and celebrated by the people who knew him and generations that come after. To learn more about Kurt, we encourage you to read his story.
The Foundation will make contributions to organizations that have dedicated themselves to the research and treatment of cancer. We will participate in the search for a cure to cancer. We are committed to help those currently battling the disease and to be a comfort to them like Kurt was to us. It is our hope that one day; others are not forced to endure the same struggle endured by Kurt, his family, and his friends.
We will fund an annual scholarship at Archbishop Alter High School in Kettering, Ohio. The scholarship will be award to an incoming senior who has faced an adversity, challenge, or trauma with Kurt’s courage, dignity, and positive attitude. During Kurt’s senior year, he battled cancer to remission through series treatments of chemotherapy, radiation, and bone marrow transplant. He expected no sympathy, made no excuses, participated in athletics, and graduated high school with his class. Kurt provided memories and life lessons that will stay with us for a lifetime. FC44 Foundation recognizes and celebrates this journey in the same spirit Kurt embodied. To learn more about the scholarship at Alter, click here.
Thank you for allowing us to Kurt’s memory alive.
FC44 Foundation, Inc.
FC44 Foundation, Inc. Directors and Officers:
- Jay Murnen, President and Director – Kurt’s brother
- Danny McGeady, Vice President and Director – Kurt’s best friend
- Bill Tolliver, Secretary and Director – Kurt’s friend
- Brian McGeady, Treasurer and Director – Kurt’s friend
- Pat Murnen, Director – Kurt’s dad
FC44 Members:
- Matt Adamson
- Justin Bayer
- Mike Falgout
- Andy Farrell
- Eric Farrell
- Matt Farrell
- Todd Fortwengler
- Simon Harris
- Brian McGeady
- Danny McGeady
- Brian Motto
- Jay Murnen
- Ben Rulli
- Nick Ryan
- Bill Tolliver
Archbishop Alter High School Kurt Murnen Memorial Scholarship Recipients:
- Ben Waker (2016)
- Lindsey Koller (2016)
- Noelle Parziale (2018)
- Jay Collins (2018)
- Kelly Heyd (2018)
- Chloe Woodie (2019)
- Stacy Mata (2019)
- Lindsey Gross (2020)
- Aidan Tyra (2020)
- Cora Cunningham (2020)
- Ethan Deep (2020)
- Meredith Russ (2020)
- Anna Brown (2021)
- Taylor Thornburg (2021)
- Daniel Parilo (2022)
- Emma Hansley (2022)
- Nicholas Rodman (2023)
- Kailey Smith (2023)
- Ty Ferguson (2023)
- Abby Stolly (2024)
- Benjamin Kaufman (2024)
- Connor Watkins (2025)
- Mia Crinion (2025)
FC44 Foundation, Inc. Corporate Documents
FIGHT CANCER for 44
FC44 Foundation, Inc. is accepting donations in memory of Kurt Patrick Murnen to carry out our mission to fight cancer and to remember a missed son, brother, and friend.
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