Partners

The Cure Bowl wouldn’t be able to raise over $3.88 million in its first six years for  Cancer Research without help from our partners.

The UCF College of Medicine is a research-based medical school with a culture based on partnerships and collaboration. The college’s medical and biomedical programs capitalize on UCF’s existing strengths in biological sciences, modeling and simulation, engineering, optics and photonics, psychology, chemistry, film and digital media, business and nursing. The college is also the home of Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) researcher Dr. Annette Khaled, the head of the Division of Cancer Research. She has received $1.2 million of the funds raised in the first three Cure Bowl games played.

The Cure Bowl is a platform to help raise funds to benefit the nation’s highest-rated breast cancer organization, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, whose mission is committed to exclusively funding cancer research. By investing in research, we all have the power to transform this diagnosis and save lives. Founded by Evelyn H. Lauder in 1993, BCRF-funded investigators have been deeply involved in every major breakthrough in breast cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. This year, BCRF has awarded $66 million to support the work of more than 275 scientists at leading medical and academic institutions across 15 countries, making BCRF the largest private funder of breast cancer research worldwide. BCRF is the highest rated breast cancer organization in the U.S.—the only one with an “A+” from CharityWatch and Charity Navigator’s highest rating of four stars. Every dollar makes a difference. We are all part of the cure.  The end of breast cancer begins with you.

The American Athletic Conference consists of 13 prestigious institutions: the University of Central Florida, the University of Cincinnati, East Carolina University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Houston, the University of Memphis, the U.S. Naval Academy (in football only), the University of South Florida Southern Methodist University, Temple University, Tulane University, the University of Tulsa, and Wichita State University (in basketball and Olympic sports). The American has taken its place at the forefront of intercollegiate athletics, with a collection of national team and individual championships and football and men’s and women’s basketball postseason victories that place The American among the elite Division I FBS conferences. The Cure Bowl is one of the seven postseason bowl game tie-ins for The American.

The Sun Belt Conference features 12 teams – Appalachian State University, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (in Olympic sports), Arkansas State University, Coastal Carolina University, Georgia Southern University, Georgia State University, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, University of Louisiana-Monroe, University of South Alabama, University of Texas Arlington (in Olympic sports) Texas State University and Troy University. The Sun Belt Conference continues to challenge itself, and its competitors, in all aspects of intercollegiate athletics. Not content with being simply the youngest football conference in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the conference has shown that it can rise each and every season that comes along. The Sun Belt is also noteworthy for its attempts to make each of its championship events in every sport a special moment in the lives of its student-athletes and its many fans and followers.

Since its inception in 1946, the Mid-American Conference has progressively grown and developed into one of the most aggressive Division I conferences in the country. One of only 10 football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) conferences, the MAC named Dr. Jon A. Steinbrecher as its eighth commissioner in March of 2009. The league hosts championships in 23 sports, including neutral-site events at some of the finest facilities in the nation – football (Ford Field, Detroit), men’s and women’s basketball (Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, Cleveland), softball (Firestone Stadium, Akron) and baseball (Sprenger Stadium, Avon, Ohio). The MAC secured a two-year contract extension with Ford Field to host the MAC Football Championship Game through the 2021 football season.

Conference USA continues to compete and promote the success of its student-athletes. The league has adapted to the ever-changing landscape of collegiate athletics in its 26-year history, but the commitment to excellence, integrity, leadership and its student-athletes in competition, academics and community is unwavering. Conference USA enjoys a far-reaching fan base with its 14 members: Charlotte, FIU, Florida Atlantic, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Middle Tennessee, North Texas, Old Dominion, Rice, Southern Miss, UAB, UTEP, UTSA and WKU.

FBC Mortgage, LLC (“FBC”) is a Top 20 National Mortgage Lender headquartered in Orlando, Florida. FBC is licensed in 48 states and has over 80 branches and nearly 700 employees nationwide.  FBC specializes in residential mortgage lending through our retail and wholesale/correspondent channels, and offers purchase, refinance, construction, and renovation loans. We focus on providing our customers and business partners with industry best practices and service.  Many of the nation’s largest real estate firms and builders rely on FBC for their mortgage needs, along with a large referral base of satisfied past customers.

The Cure Bowl will be nationally televised on ESPN. ESPN, Inc. is the leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment brand featuring the broadest portfolio of multimedia sports assets. In 2019, across its TV and digital platforms, ESPN presented 24,749 live events and 83,340 total live hours of studio and event programming.

SoftWash Systems through their equipment, chemicals, education and support have been able to assemble a International Network of exterior cleaning companies that are similarly prepared to serve you. All of this with our training and events throughout the US for our in-network soft washing professionals. The company’s mission statement is to create soft washing opportunities in faith, family and legacy. SoftWash Systems vision is to see 1,000 softwashing businesses worldwide, thriving under our business model by the year 2040.

FFVA Mutual is a Florida-based regional insurance carrier specializing in workers’ compensation since 1956. FFVA Mutual history began in 1956 with a need to provide workers’ compensation insurance for agricultural workers in Florida. That year, the FFVA Self Insurers Fund was established to help their sister company, the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, obtain coverage for their members’ employees. Forty years later in 1996, the Self Insurers Fund evolved into FFVA Mutual Insurance Company. In 1998, the decision was made to expand into all market segments and become licensed in additional states. Today, FFVA Mutual provides coverage to businesses throughout the Southeast including automotive, construction, hospitality, manufacturing, retail/wholesale, and service industries.

JA Edwards of America, Inc. Your Roofing Specialist! JAEA is a top-rated industry leader specializing in Roofing, Gutters, Siding, Paint and much more. Serving Greater Orlando and the Coast. Visit JAEofAmerica.com to request your free roof inspection today.

The Orlando Utilities Commission is a municipally-owned public utility providing water and electric service to the citizens of Orlando, Florida and portions of adjacent unincorporated areas of Orange County, as well as St. Cloud, Florida, in Osceola County. OUC also owns and operates seven water plants and a distribution network of more than 1,700 miles of pipe. OUC’s water is pumped from the Lower Floridan Aquifer and treated with ozone to reduce the need for other chemicals.

WithumSmith+Brown brings clients the benefits of a larger organization without sacrificing the attention and personal service that one expects from a local business. Their clients represent a broad spectrum of industries and range in size from small, entrepreneurial startups to billion-dollar, publicly-held companies.  The Firm has a staff of nearly 1,000 with more than 750 professionals and 450 CPAs providing accounting, audit, tax and business advisory services.

What started as a humble, little aerial crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters in 1924 has now grown into one of the world’s largest global airlines, helping more than 180 million travelers get to the places they want to go to each year. The airline, along with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates, operates over 5,400 flights daily and serves an extensive domestic and international network that includes 319 destinations in 54 countries on six continents, as of October 2016. Delta is one of the four founding members of the SkyTeam airline alliance. Delta is the world’s second largest airline in terms of scheduled passengers carried, revenue passenger-kilometers flown and fleet size. In 2018, Delta ranked No. 75 in the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.

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We appreciate the support of the Cure Bowl with ticket donations to teams in support of cancer research.

The 2019 Cure Bowl will be broadcast live on Real Radio FM 104.1 The Game. Fans can listen to the game at realradio.iheart.com

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors of the Cure Classic All-Stars Game