This year Making Strides for Breast Cancer has me pumped! I
am heavily involved in social media promoting the event and charged about how
well the registration is going.
This event is not till Oct. 10th but we already
have 140 teams registered. All of the sponsors for this year’s event were
secured early and companies are still continuing to ask what they can do. For a
breast cancer survivor who regularly sees more friends being diagnosed or re-occurrences,
this is like a winning lotto ticket to me. When someone beats cancer, we all
win. As the survivor numbers go up, so must our drive to find a cure so that
everyone is in this category.
Early diagnosis is critical but so many people don’t realize
it is their responsibility to be proactive in screening. Even males get breast
cancer and must pay attention to their bodies. If you feel anything suspicious,
please check it out. Not all cancers are slow growing.
If you are wondering what I can do to help Strides, easy
answer! Go to the website and find the event in your area. I have done
everything from lead a team, work for the organization acquiring major donors,
helping teams come up with fund raising ideas to increase donations and
volunteer. It is immaterial what you do, just so you do something.
Our city is riding on the theme of getting pinked, as
opposed to "Getting punked" by cancer. Getting pink is about raising funds for
research and the tens of other things ACS does and the services they provide.
We even have Montgomery Gentry being a part of this special promotion. Troy
Gentry is the leader in the Band of Pink. Angie, his wife is currently fighting
the disease. We can show them they are not alone by having the most successful
event this year in the Music City, country music capital of the world.
Band of Pink is a special group comprised of two
demographics. The person that does not want to walk but help can do so by
joining the Band. It is a
Please take the time to look and consider this event. I ask
on behalf of all survivors and not simply myself. If you can’t walk, sign up to
be one of our Band of Pink members. If you can’t do it as an individual
certainly you can do it as a team goal.
My mission is to see an increase on the activity level on
the Twitter site IAmMakingStridesNash. If you could consider helping me with
this mission and make any tweets on #breastcancer tagged with #Nashville and #IGotPinked, bless you.
Stories, pictures and more followers from the local city would be a major plus
also. And know that you don’t have to be
a star to be in our show!
Link to Making Strides http://makingstrides.acsevents.org/site/PageServer/?pagename=MSABC_CY15_AboutMakingStrides
