FIND A CURE

TOGETHER WE CAN

WE’RE ON A MISSION

Stand Up to Parkinson’s is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease and helping local Parkinson’s patients live more rewarding lives.

Since founded in 2019, Stand Up to Parkinson’s has donated over $250,000 to local Parkinson’s research at Albany Medical Center and Capital Region patient support services, such as Help for Parkinson’s.

Join us as we Stand Up to Parkinson’s - together, we can make a difference and find a cure.

2024 Golf Tournament

While we hold several events throughout the year, our main fundraiser is an annual golf tournament where players of all levels and ages compete to support our cause. This event brings together our community of golfers, sponsors, donors, and volunteers for a fun-filled day of friendly competition and camaraderie.

5th Annual Stand Up to Parkinson's Golf Tournament

Monday, August 26, 2024

Colonie Golf & Country Club
13 Country Club Lane
Voorheesville, NY 12186

A four-person scramble tournament.
Register online!

*Payment by check or card is available with online registration. Details on the registration page.

BECOME A 2024 GOLF TOURNAMENT SPONSOR

PRESENTING SPONSOR
$10,000

  • Your business name will receive top-billing as presenting sponsor in all print, television, and radio coverage with daily notice on Big Board Sports with Roger Wyland ESPN 104.5.

  • Recognition in pre-event promotion and company-provided banner on-site during the event.

  • Product placement advertising and/or brochure distribution during the event.

  • Tournament entry fees for two foursomes.

  • Business name highlighted on exclusive Presenting Sponsor banner.

  • Includes a return golf outing with lunch golf and cart for 12 business associates.

GOLD SPONSOR
$5,000

  • Your business name will receive recognition in all print, television and radio coverage with daily notice on Big Board Sports with Rodger Wyland, ESPN 104.5.

  • Recognition in pre-event promotion and company-provided banner on site during the event.

  • Product placement, advertising, and/or brochure distribution during the event.

  • Tournament entry fees for one foursome.

  • Business name highlighted on event banner.

  • One foursome for a return visit to Colonie Golf & Country Club.

SILVER SPONSORSHIP
$2,000

  • Recognition in pre-event promotion and company-provided banner on site during the event.

  • Product placement, advertising, and/or brochure distribution during the tournament.

  • Tournament entry fees for two players.

  • Business name highlighted on event banner.

  • Special recognition in all social media advertising.

HOLE SPONSORSHIP
$1,000

  • Business name will receive recognition on event signage on a specified tee box.

  • Business name highlighted on event banner.

*Payment by check or card is available. Details on the registration page.

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative neurological disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Together, we can find a cure and improve the lives of those affected by Parkinson's disease.

Make a donation.

Since 2019, Stand Up to Parkinson’s has donated over $250,000 to:

  • Albany Medical College’s Parkinson’s Lab where Dr. Damian Shin’s Parkinson’s research team gives us hope for those diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

  • Capital Region patient support services, such as Help for Parkinson’s which gives local patients access to daily living tools.

If you’d like to make an individual contribution to support our cause, you can donate online or by check. Please make checks out to Stand Up to Parkinson’s Inc. and send to PO Box 137, Clifton Park, NY 12065.

SUPPORTING THE CAPITAL REGION‘S PARKINSON'S COMMUNITY

Stand Up to Parkinson's supports regional programming for PD patients to help them find resources that provide opportunities to live more fulfilling lives. An example of this is Help for Parkinson’s, whose mission “is to help people living in the New York Greater Capital Region who are affected by Parkinson's Disease by giving them access to daily living tools, tips, and resources needed to live well today, and tomorrow.”

If you or someone you know has Parkinson’s Disease and lives in the Capital Region, we encourage you to visit their website and take advantage of the numerous resources and programs available.

Board of Directors

Officers

  • Rodger Wyland joined NewsChannel 13 in August 1986 as a weekend sports anchor/sports reporter. He is now the Sports Director, anchoring at 6 and 11 p.m. He also hosts Big Board Radio Sports Talk weekdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on WTMM, 104.5 The Team, ESPN Radio and is the play by play announcer for UAlbany Football and Basketball.

    Prior to joining WNYT, Rodger was the Sports Director at WTAJ in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he anchored sports on weekdays at 6 p.m.and 11 p.m.

    Rodger is a recipient of the Iris Award, presented for a half-hour special featuring triathlete John Gracey. He is also the winner of three New York State Broadcasters Awards for local sports coverage.

    A native of Altoona, Rodger graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Broadcasting in 1984. While at PSU, he was a play-by-play announcer at PSU basketball games for WPSX-TV.

    Rodger lives in Albany County with his wife Kelly and kids Brady and Rachel, and their dog Oliver.

  • Dan joined the Board of Directors in 2019 and currently serves as the Vice President of the Foundation. He is passionately working to raise funds to find a cure for Parkinson’s Disease, to help his life-long friend, coach, educator, and the founder of Stand Up To Parkinson’s, Tim Lange.

    Dan spent the first 10 years of his career as a sales and marketing manager in the petroleum and energy business. In 2004, Dan became an educator, and has spent the last 20 years in the Shenendehowa Central School District. Dan has served his community volunteering countless hours serving on the Board of Directors of the East Greenbush Castleton Little League and Town of East Greenbush Zoning Board.

  • Lisa joined the Board of Directors in 2019 and currently serves as the Secretary of the Foundation. Lisa’s passion for supporting Parkinson’s Disease started when the Foundation’s President was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.

    Lisa started her career at KPMG where she earned her CPA license. She is currently the Chief Audit Executive at Broadview Federal Credit Union and over the last three decades, she held leadership roles in public accounting, financial reporting, auditing, administration, and operations at; BST & Co. LLP, CAPCOM Federal Credit Union, General Electric, TransWorld Entertainment, and the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation.

Directors

  • Kerry has over 45 years of government and private sector experience, specializing in healthcare and health insurance. She also spent ten years as an emergency medical provider. Currently she works at a NY hospital system. Kerry’s interest in the SUTP stems from the need for providing better and more resources to individuals and families dealing with Parkinson’s, and SUTP’s true dedication to this goal.

  • CEO, Concord Pools & Spas, Latham, NY

    Jon Foshee is the dynamic and visionary leader at the helm of Concord Pools & Spas, based in Latham, New York. With over 30 years of experience, he serves as the Owner, President, and CEO, infusing the company with a commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction, earning it a position among the industry's best year after year.

    Beyond his professional achievements, Jon Foshee is deeply committed to community engagement and corporate responsibility. He fosters a culture of integrity, teamwork, and social responsibility within Concord Pools & Spas, reflecting his belief in the broader impact businesses can have on the communities they serve.

  • Born and raised in Brooklyn, Dr. Fruiterman graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1972. He began his practice of internal medicine and endocrinology in 1977 and maintained that practice along with his partners until his retirement in 2020. His relationship to Parkinson's disease is both of a professional and personal nature. With over 40 years of practice, many of his patients developed Parkinson’s disease. He also has several friends who are living with the disease currently.There is also a family history with his maternal grandmother having developed Parkinson’s in her latter years.

  • Howard Hanna Real Estate Services
    Donna Goldslager is a native of Albany and has been working as a full time real estate agent for the past 35+ years. When her husband Andy was diagnosed With Parkinson’s in 2017, Donna channeled her energy into finding as much information about the disease as possible and finding ways to improve Andy’s quality of life while living with PD. When the opportunity presented itself to work on the board of SUTP Donna was excited about the chance to make a difference not only for her husband for all of the people battling this illness.

  • CEO, Metabolic Fitness

    Matt Phelps is the founder and CEO of Metabolic Fitness, a fitness business that focuses on strength training. An established fitness coach with thousands of classes under his belt, Matt changed the way that group training is implemented with the development of the Metabolic Fitness program. With 14 Studios spread across the Capital Region, Central New York, and Western New York, Metabolic Fitness has had a profound impact on the health and wellness of thousands of people.

    A graduate of Siena College and native to the Capital Region, Matt and his wife Cara, have a 7 year old son, Caden.

  • Former President and CEO of the Huck Finn Companies. Jeff has served the area by participating in numerous community, health and non profit organizations, including The Kidney Foundation, Wounded Veterans Relief Fund, Albany Medical Center, Capital Region Chamber and the Albany Local Development Corp.

  • Rabbi Greg Weitzman is the 14th Senior Rabbi at Congregation Beth Emeth in Albany, NY. He sits on the board of the Capital District Board of Rabbis and Cantors and serves as a Police Chaplain for the Albany Police Department with the honorary rank of Lieutenant. Prior to his time in Albany, Rabbi Weitzman lived and worked in Manhattan. Currently he resides in Slingerlands, NY with his wife Ashley and their two children Eden and Jonathan.

Medical Advisor

Eric Molho, MD, FAAN, FANA
Professor of Neurology
Riley Family Chair in Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center
Albany Medical Center Neurosciences Institute

Meet our Co-Founders

  • Tim's professional career spanned 33 years in public school education in the Capital Region. He taught Spanish at Columbia High School in the East Greenbush Central School District where he also coached several sports. His 1994-95 boys basketball team captured the Section 2 Class A championship and he was inducted into the school's athletic hall of fame in 2017.

    Tim served as Director of Athletics and Health at the Mohonasen Central School District before returning to East Greenbush where he was an assistant high school principal and later assistant superintendent. He went on to serve the Waterford-Halfmoon School District as superintendent until his retirement in 2014.

    In 2017, while working for the Saratoga National Golf Club, Tim was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. Noticing tremors and tingling of his right hand, he was seen by a neurologist affiliated with the Albany Med Movement Disorders department. Tim decided a couple months later that he would take up the fight to help researchers find a cure for PD.

    Tim is proud of the Board of Directors that have joined him in a passion for finding a cure and for assisting Capital Region Parkinson's patients in living a more rewarding life.

    Tim is the proud father of his daughter, Alyson, and stepson, Matt.

  • Dawn helped found the organization with her husband, Tim, in 2019. She had a successful career in public education, first as an elementary school teacher for 12 years in the South Colonie School District, and then for 21 years as a Hall Principal at Shaker Junior High School in the North Colonie Central School District. Dawn earned her BA from the College of St. Rose, and her Master's degree from UAlbany. She is the proud mom of Matt Berthiaume and stepmom to Alyson.

A short time after being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2017, Tim’s focus moved to helping others, as he had done throughout his life in his role as teacher, mentor, coach, administrator, friend, brother, husband, and father. In 2019, Tim and his wife Dawn founded Stand Up to Parkinson’s, with the goal of raising funds to assist local researchers in their mission to find a cure.

Tim reached out to his long time friends, Lisa and Dan Smith and Rodger and Kelly Wyland, who joined the organization as officers, and in the fall of 2019 the 1st Annual Stand Up to Parkinson’s Golf Tournament took place.

Since that first event, Stand Up to Parkinson’s has continued to grow as a fundraising organization that not only supports local research at Albany Medical Center, but has also begun to support other regional programming that assists current Parkinson’s patients in the Capital Region live more fulfilling lives.

Upon Dawn’s retirement in 2022, Tim and Dawn relocated to Arizona where they are currently enjoying the active Arizona lifestyle. They keep very busy meeting new friends, playing softball and golf, attending professional Arizona sporting events, and enjoying their time together in the beautiful Arizona landscape.

In December of 2023, because of their distance from the Albany area, Tim (President) and Dawn (Secretary) stepped aside from their active roles with SUTP, and “passed on” the organization’s leadership to their longtime friends.

Today, the current officers and the expanded board of directors (in January of 2024 we welcomed 7 new community leaders to our board) are not only committed to continuing the work that Tim and Dawn began, but also to expanding the reach of our organization in Tim’s vision. We are beyond grateful for their passion, energy, and leadership in creating SUTP, as well as for the countless hours they dedicated to laying the groundwork for what we hope to become.

THANK YOU Tim and Dawn - ENJOY retirement!

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