Help Hooters Raise Funds For Moffitt During Breast Cancer Month

CLEARWATER, FL — During the entire month of October, Hooters is holding its annual “Give a Hoot” fundraising campaign. Donations at the 23 Hooters locations in Tampa Bay will support the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa.

Ways the community can help and join their local Hooters restaurant in the fight against breast cancer include:

1. Add their name to a personalized endowment card to hang up in the restaurant or take home.
2. Enjoy a pink drink created to raise awareness and funds.
3. Pink up their check when you visit Hooters. Add a cash or credit card donation to the check.

Since 2002, Hooters Management Corp. has donated more than $900,000 to Moffitt Cancer Center. The program is held annually in honor of Hooters Management Corp.’s own Kelly Jo Dowd, who was a Hooters Girl, 1995 Hooters Calendar Cover Girl and ultimately the Palm Harbor restaurant general manager. Dowd died from breast cancer in 2007.

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Hooters has raised more than $6.5 million over time to support the fight against breast cancer, much of it through the Kelly Jo Dowd Breast Cancer Research Fund benefiting the V Foundation for Cancer Research. The donations were collected nationwide in conjunction with the V Foundation.

This year’s goal is to raise $1 million nationwide. These grants honor Kelly Jo and further her mission to educate all women, especially her extended family consisting of some 300,000 current and former Hooters Girls, about the importance of early detection and prevention.

“Hooters Management Corporation is committed to raising awareness and increasing participation in breast cancer trials at Moffitt Cancer Center,” said Hooters Management Corporation Chief Marketing Officer Denise Williams.

Hooters Management Corp. owns and operates 24 Hooters Restaurant locations in Tampa Bay, Chicagoland and Manhattan along with four Hoots, a quick-service restaurant serving Hooters’ most popular menu items. For more information about Hooters community outreach and upcoming promotions, click here.