Please Help
Oct. 2nd, 2009 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayfurrTwo weeks from today my wife, my college friend Sandy, and I will begin the Philadelphia Breast Cancer 3-Day along with 4,000 or so new friends, all walking for a single purpose: to raise funds and awareness for the fight against breast cancer. We'll walk sixty miles in three long days, spending our nights camped out in bright pink two-person tents, drinking Gatorade until our blood turns lime green, all looking forward to the finish line.
But the finish line we're looking forward to isn't an arbitrary line drawn in a parking lot at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. It's the day when everyone has access to genetic testing to find the markers that indicate a higher risk for breast cancer. It's the day when everyone has access to tools to detect breast cancer in early stages. It's the day when everyone diagnosed with the disease can confidently expect a positive outcome rather than years of struggle and 'chemo brain'. It's the day when we find the cure!
The money donated on behalf of participants in the Breast Cancer 3-Day doesn't go to feel-good publicity or huge administrative costs. It goes to two organizations that have made enormous contributions in the fight. 85% goes toward Susan G. Komen For The Cure. Every advancement in breast cancer research, treatment, education and prevention in the last 25 years has been touched by a Komen for the Cure grant. The remaining 15% goes to the National Philanthropic Trust's Breast Cancer Fund, which helps support community based programs which offer education, prevention, screening, and care in towns and cities across the USA.
Perhaps the $50 you donate won't be the tipping point that takes us all the way to the finish line, but it will help pay for a research trial. Or development costs of a new imaging device. Or... just maybe it'll pay for the tank of gas that gets eight women from a rural town to a distant hospital where they can get mammograms. Every bit counts and every bit helps. And everyone deserves a chance at a full and happy lifetime.
Our team, the Quick Steppers, has a goal of raising $10,000 for the Philadelphia Breast Cancer 3-Day. Today, exactly two weeks before the walk commences, we're exactly $530 short. And I've got a personal goal of raising $4,000... and today, I'm exactly $501.38 short.
We need your help and I'm willing to make a sacrifice in order to get it. If we raise the $530 between now and a week from today, October 9, I will shave my head and walk the 3-Day bald as an egg. (I'll even post a video of the head-shaving so you can all see proof that I went through with it.) And I'll tell you what: if I get all the way to $5,000 -- $1,000 more than my personal goal -- I will KEEP my head shaved for a YEAR.
And I live in northern Vermont, folks. I *need* that hair to keep my brains from freezing during our long winters.
But I'll do it... if you help us out. You may not be out there on the streets of the City of Brotherly Love with us as we walk the 3-Day, but you can be right there alongside us as we all work together to reach that ultimate finish line: the day we can say that we live in a world without breast cancer.
Please help: http://www.the3day.org/goto/jayfurr will take you to my donation page.
(Please feel free, as well, to share this note with your friends.)
But the finish line we're looking forward to isn't an arbitrary line drawn in a parking lot at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. It's the day when everyone has access to genetic testing to find the markers that indicate a higher risk for breast cancer. It's the day when everyone has access to tools to detect breast cancer in early stages. It's the day when everyone diagnosed with the disease can confidently expect a positive outcome rather than years of struggle and 'chemo brain'. It's the day when we find the cure!
The money donated on behalf of participants in the Breast Cancer 3-Day doesn't go to feel-good publicity or huge administrative costs. It goes to two organizations that have made enormous contributions in the fight. 85% goes toward Susan G. Komen For The Cure. Every advancement in breast cancer research, treatment, education and prevention in the last 25 years has been touched by a Komen for the Cure grant. The remaining 15% goes to the National Philanthropic Trust's Breast Cancer Fund, which helps support community based programs which offer education, prevention, screening, and care in towns and cities across the USA.
Perhaps the $50 you donate won't be the tipping point that takes us all the way to the finish line, but it will help pay for a research trial. Or development costs of a new imaging device. Or... just maybe it'll pay for the tank of gas that gets eight women from a rural town to a distant hospital where they can get mammograms. Every bit counts and every bit helps. And everyone deserves a chance at a full and happy lifetime.
Our team, the Quick Steppers, has a goal of raising $10,000 for the Philadelphia Breast Cancer 3-Day. Today, exactly two weeks before the walk commences, we're exactly $530 short. And I've got a personal goal of raising $4,000... and today, I'm exactly $501.38 short.
We need your help and I'm willing to make a sacrifice in order to get it. If we raise the $530 between now and a week from today, October 9, I will shave my head and walk the 3-Day bald as an egg. (I'll even post a video of the head-shaving so you can all see proof that I went through with it.) And I'll tell you what: if I get all the way to $5,000 -- $1,000 more than my personal goal -- I will KEEP my head shaved for a YEAR.
And I live in northern Vermont, folks. I *need* that hair to keep my brains from freezing during our long winters.
But I'll do it... if you help us out. You may not be out there on the streets of the City of Brotherly Love with us as we walk the 3-Day, but you can be right there alongside us as we all work together to reach that ultimate finish line: the day we can say that we live in a world without breast cancer.
Please help: http://www.the3day.org/goto/jayfurr will take you to my donation page.
(Please feel free, as well, to share this note with your friends.)
