The mission of the foundation can be broken up into two main areas:
The first is to help cancer survivors and patients in Central New York overcome financial burdens through tuition scholarships, defraying educational costs and more. The second is participation in local programs that support cancer patients such as Beads of Courage.

Even though he was standout high school athlete in three sports, it was no surprise to those closest when Patrick Wiese made the commitment to his first love: Baseball. He accepted an offer from Division I Le Moyne College in his hometown of Syracuse, NY and began his life as any incoming freshman. Wiese played each and every game with gusto, skill and joy. He was selected to play in the Valley Baseball League and the New England College Baseball League during the summers, allowing him to never be away from the game he loved. After his junior season, Wiese was voted captain for the Dolphins. His dreams of having a chance at a professional life on the baseball field were still alive.

Being an athlete, Wiese was used to pain and always played through it. However, while playing for the Vermont Mountaineers in the NECBL, it became unbearable. After sleepless nights with excruciating knee pain, he could no longer ignore it. He told his father, an orthopedic surgeon, and an MRI was ordered. The results came out of right field - a tumor lodged in his right leg. Wiese was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer. The tumor was surgically removed in October of 2013 along with his knee, part of his femur and tibia, several tendons, ligaments, muscles and aspirations of a professional baseball career. However, Wiese didn’t allow cancer to take anything else from him. Wiese attacked physical therapy and chemotherapy as he would a pitcher with a great fastball. “Find an excuse to win,” he says. “...It cannot cripple love and it cannot kill friendships. It cannot shatter hope. It can only strengthen those things.” “I can say that I played my last game like it was my last game. For everyone out there, take me as an example that anything can happen at any moment, so live each day and perform each day’s activities like it is your last. Know that, at any time, it can be taken away from you with a blink of an eye. And if that happens, I hope you don’t have any regrets. "Do what you love every single day” It is this attitude along with Wiese’s close knit family that has him thinking beyond himself and towards those he now shares a familiar path with. The mission of the foundation can be broken down into two main areas. The first is to help cancer survivors and patients in Central New York overcome financial burdens through tuition scholarships, defraying educational costs and more. The second is participation in local programs that support cancer patients such as Beads of Courage.