Monday, March 2, 2009

Hoping for a mini miracle during this economic crisis

I have been actively fundraising for team WALK for DEE for over a month now. To date not one donation has been recieved nor any new walkers recruited. I am trying to remain positive but am feeling really down about the lack of support. Each year I push to make the team more successful but feel like I am the only one pushing. It is heart breaking really. When you put so much effort and heart into something that means so much to you and you just feel alone it SUCKS.

I know times are hard and most of us are in a financial slump but there is always a way if you have the will. Every dollar counts towards this important cause. Cancer awareness and research is VERY IMPORTANT. Millions of lives are lost as well as impacted by this horrible disease.

The Umass Medical Center's Walk to Cure Cancer has become more successful with each passing year. So much has been accomplished to date. Here are some amazing facts as listed on their website:

Since the Walk to Cure Cancer began on Labor Day in 1999, passionate teams of walkers, formed by unions and their members from across the state, businesses and community supporters, have been instrumental in helping the UMass Memorial Cancer Center flourish from an idea to reality. Each year, as they set off from the starting line, walkers witnessed a changing landscape on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School: from a groundbreaking in 1999, to girders outlining a structure in 2000 and finally a gleaming ten-story research facility, completed in 2001.


Since the Walk to Cure Cancer began on Labor Day in 1999, passionate teams of walkers, formed by unions and their members from across the state, businesses and community supporters, have been instrumental in helping the UMass Memorial Cancer Center flourish from an idea to reality. Each year, as they set off from the starting line, walkers witnessed a changing landscape on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School: from a groundbreaking in 1999, to girders outlining a structure in 2000 and finally a gleaming ten-story research facility, completed in 2001.

In the ten years since the Walk began, the UMass Memorial Cancer Center has made great strides in its efforts to find a cure for cancer and has achieved major breakthroughs in understanding and treating non-Hodgkins lymphoma, leukemia and prostate, breast, colon, pancreatic and stomach cancers.

I am hoping people will find it in their hearts and/ or wallets to walk as part of Team WALK FOR DEE or spread the link to others. Online donations are quick and easy. As well as tax deductible. Who couldn't use a tax deduction right? It is as easy as spreading the cause to everyone you know. Please pass the links on to your family and friends and help us raise amazing amounts of $$ towards this important cause.

http://www.firstgiving.com/gwendolynbultron3