Eskimo Women's Dinner presented by Prism Flow Products

Every three and a half hours –– or about the time it takes the Edmonton Eskimos to play a game at Commonwealth Stadium - another Canadian women is diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

The women of Edmonton Eskimo Football have joined forces with the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation team to turn the whisper to a roar in the fight against ovarian cancer. In an effort to raise funds to support research to battle the disease that boasts a sixty percent mortality rate among women diagnosed, the Eskimos hosted the inaugural Eskimo Women’s Dinner in 2007, with proceeds going to ovarian cancer research at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women.

The Edmonton Eskimo Women’s Ovarian Cancer Research Endowment Fund was introduced in September 2008 as a means to provide long term, sustainable funding for ovarian cancer research.  With the help of the Women's Dinner, the Edmonton Eskimos and various other donors, the women of Eskimo football have been able to raise a total of $135,000 to date. Funds raised will be made available to physician-researchers who practice at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women in the area of gynecological oncology.

In August 2010, The Edmonton Eskimo Women announced that they have successfully reached their goal of $100,000 towards ovarian cancer research at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women – an entire year early of their three-year commitment.

Due to the renovations at Commonwealth Stadium, the annual Edmonton Eskimo Women’s Dinner was put on hold for 2010.  But fundraising efforts continued, including an auction for two full Eskimo game-worn 1970s retro uniforms.