jayfurr | Goal reached and exceeded!

Thanks to some really incredibly generous people, my little team of Philadelphia Breast Cancer 3-Day walkers (me, my wife Carole, and my college friend Sandy Bryant), has exceeded the $10,000 goal we set for ourselves. Each participant has to raise $2,300 or more to take part in the event, so on average we've exceeded that minimum by a thousand dollars. We couldn't have done it without some awfully nice people digging deep in their pockets... and I'm all the more grateful when I consider how hard times are for a lot of people.

I also set myself a personal goal of $4,000 and made that goal today, a short time after our team goal was reached. And, again, I'm just incredibly grateful. Every penny counts and I know that $4,000 will help get us a bit closer to a cure, pay for prevention efforts and education, and as I keep reminding myself, maybe just pay for a tank of gas to get a vanload of women to a mammography center that they otherwise couldn't afford to travel to.

Thank you all.

(If you haven't donated yet and would still like to help out, our team fundraising page is here: http://www.the3day.org/goto/quicksteppers)