Please note: Events listed on this page are listed as a convenience for visitors to our website and are not necessarily sponsored by Maine Breast Cancer Coalition. Events sponsored by MBCC will be identified as such.
July 31st: Bobbi Butler 2nd Annual All-Ladies Ride to Benefit Maine Breast Cancer Coalition
Women bikers: here’s another great opportunity to have fun and help a good cause at the same time! The second annual Androscoggin County Bobbi Butler Breast Cancer Ride will be held on July 31st. (Rain date August 1st) The event is sponsored by the women of the Androscoggin United Bikers of Maine. The ride is in memory of Bobbi Butler, who lost her battle to breast cancer in 1993.
The all-ladies* ride will take off from Danny's Convenience Store on route 126 in Sabattus Sunday at 10:30 AM. The ride will end at the Wharf on Main Street in Hallowell, where a live band will perform at 12 PM. There will also be a tattoo artist there, offering discounted pink ribbon tattoos. Donation for the ride is $10 per person. *Men are welcome to join the ladies at the Wharf at noon.
August 7: 2nd Annual Ladies Ride for Breast Cancer to Benefit MBCC Support Service Fund
Women motorcycle enthusiasts: mark your calendars! The second annual Ladies Ride for Breast Cancer (men are welcome, too!) will be held on Saturday, August 7, 2010. Andie Walker started this ride in honor of her mom and her 3 sisters, who were all diagnosed with Breast Cancer in an 18 month time period. Since then, her aunt has also been diagnosed with breast cancer.
The ride will begin at TRI SPORTS in Topsham at 9am, for sign in and directions. The ride leaves at 10am and we will travel to THE DEPOT in Gardiner for a 30 minute stop. Riders will then leave The Depot and head to Lisbon to the RAILROAD PUB on 196 for another 30 minute stop. The final destination is BENTLEY'S SALOON in Arundel.
Proceeds from the ride will benefit the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition Support Service Fund. Please visit the Ladies Ride for Breast Cancer website at http://www.ladiesrideforbreastcancer.9f.com for more information and to download a pledge sheet. The top 3 pledgers will receive a prize. For those not bringing pledges who want to ride, there will be a $25.00 donation that includes a T-shirt. There will be regular T-shirts with the donations, and for ladies there will be spaghetti strap shirts available as well for $15.00. For questions or more information please email Andie Walker at bikerlady2008@live.com.
"Susan G. Komen For the Cure Maine" Awards Major Grant to Support Service Fund
The Maine Breast Cancer Coalition is pleased to announce we have been awarded a major grant of $68,800 from the Maine Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure for our Support Service Fund. This grant will significantly help us reach our $155,300 budget goal and will allow us to provide a high level of assistance to a projected 260 Support Service Fund applicants this year. Our Komen grant not only provides a large contribution toward grant awards to qualified applicants, but also covers all of our low administrative costs. This allows 100% of all other donations to the Support Service Fund to go directly to applicants.
Maine Breast Cancer Coalition is grateful to the Maine Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure for supporting our work with major grants for ten consecutive years. To find out more about the Komen Maine Affiliate go to www.komenmaine.com.
Borman Family Foundation: Long-time Contributor to the Support Service Fund
For the seventh consecutive year the Borman Family Foundation has awarded a generous grant to the Support Service Fund. This year’s grant is $3,000. We appreciate the Borman Family Foundation's committment to support for the Fund.
Building Hope Through "Kitchens That Care"
In 2008 PATCO Construction of Sanford selected the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition’s Support Service Fund as the recipient of over $13,000 in funds generated by The Pink Key Project. This year, Lavalley Lumber has joined forces with PATCO in launching “Kitchens That Care”. For every PATCO home featuring a Lavalley kitchen built in 2010, $200 will be donated to the Support Service Fund.
“What more symbolic place to focus our 2010 fundraiser to benefit the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition, than in the “heart” of the house?” said PATCO Co-owner, Mark Patterson. “The family kitchen is a special place, and this is a very special cause,” added Lavalley President and CEO, Donald Collins. “Bringing Maine companies together on behalf of great organizations like the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition Support Service Fund is critical. Together, we can make a difference in the lives of women in Maine who are battling breast cancer.”
Cumberland "Firefighters for Kids" Pink T-Shirt Sale for the Support Service Fund
Seven years ago the Cumberland Fire Department started a toy drive to help local children. The toy drive has since grown to help just over 3,000 children throughout Cumberland County and beyond. We have since taken the name Firefighters for Kids. Helping community members beyond emergencies is a big part of what the Firefighters for Kids do, so they decided to hold a fundraiser to help support the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition’s work.
Proceeds from the sale of these great-looking T-shirts will be donated to the Support Service Fund. The T-shirts were designed by Gwen Hall of Logoowl, gwen@logoowl.com. If you are interested in buying a T-shirt, contact Kevin Foster at lfosta@yahoo.com or at 207-232-6426.
Rumford Eagles Classic Car Show and Sock Hop Benefits Support Service Fund
Rumford Eagles Club Aerie #1248, longtime contributors to the Support Service Fund, held their annual benefit Classic Car Show and Sock Hop on Saturday, July 10, at which they raised $1,676 for the Fund! Many thanks to the Rumford Eagles for all their hard work and generosity!
The Fraternal Order of Eagles, an international, non-profit organization, strives to help people in need. To find out more about the Eagles go to www.foe.com for the national site or www.foemaine.com for the state site.
Maine Specialty License Plate Benefits Breast Cancer Services, Including the MBCC Support Service Fund
Do you have your Maine Breast Cancer Specialty license
plate yet? The proceeds from this specialty
plate help support breast cancer education, research, and patient support here in Maine.
The plates are available from BMV branch offices and most town
offices. For more information go to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Specialty Plate page at http://www.maine.gov/sos/bmv/registration/bcplate.htm or call the Registration Unit at
207-624-9000, Extension 52149.
One Million Women :: One Research Goal :: One Revolutionary Opportunity
On October 1, 2008
the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation and the Avon Foundation launched the Love/Avon Army of Women, a
groundbreaking initiative that partners women with breast cancer
researchers to find the key to what causes breast cancer and take science
beyond a cure to prevention.
Women have taken personal action to raise millions of dollars by walking,
running, and donating to the fight against breast cancer. These dollars have
helped advance breast cancer treatment and move us closer to a cure. But there
is still no prevention. Now the Love/Avon Army of Women offers a singular new
opportunity -- a simple but revolutionary call to action for one million
healthy women of all ages and ethnicities to join the “Army” and be available
to take part in the research that will help scientists understand the causes of
breast cancer—and how to end it once and for all.
The
unique impact of the Love/Avon Army of Women is that it serves as an online
resource providing researchers much-needed and unprecedented, timely access to
healthy women -- a critical component to prevention research. At the same time, the program offers
women the opportunity to play a significant, direct role in helping eradicate
breast cancer. Virtually all women not currently undergoing breast
cancer treatment, including healthy women, breast cancer survivors, and
women who are high risk for developing breast cancer, can enroll in the
Love/Avon Army of Women online at www.armyofwomen.org, providing
basic information and indicating their willingness to consider participation in
future research studies.
Pink Ribbon Tattoo Benefit for Support Service Fund
Get a pink ribbon tattoo and help the Support Service Fund! Electric Skin Designs in Augusta is donating $10 to the Fund for every pink ribbon tattoo purchased. The tattoos cost $35 and are a one-inch classic pink ribbon design. Click here for more information, call 207-621-9900, or visit Electric Skin Designs at 161 Water Street in Augusta.
Call For Nominations: Maine Breast Health Cooperative 2010 Breast Health Leadership Award
Each year the Maine Breast Health Cooperative (MBHC) honors one or more individuals who have made an outstanding difference in breast health and breast cancer in Maine. The Breast Health Leadership Award is offered in two categories:
Professional: Available to a health care professional whose efforts in the workplace go above and beyond what is expected
Volunteer: Available to a person whose contributions as a volunteer or advocate, or whose inspiration, are noteworthy.
Please take a moment to submit your nomination form for next year’s Awards today! Each of us knows a special person whose efforts to care for patients or to educate, initiate, or advocate are impressive and make a difference—this is your opportunity to give them the recognition they deserve. Awards will be presented at the 13th Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Silver Tea, hosted by Karen M. Baldacci, First Lady of Maine, on Thursday, September 30, 2010, at the Blaine House in Augusta.
"Shine For Life" Fine Sterling Silver Jewelry Fundraiser for Support Service Fund
Here is your chance to own beautiful, handcrafted sterling
silver jewelry and help the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition Support
Service Fund at the same time! Deb Barry, an independent fine sterling silver jewelry consultant, is generously donating her profit from any sales originating from this website posting to the Support Service Fund. This includes the purchase of jewelry and gift certificates. So far she has donated $500. Deb wrote, “I have been trying to think of a way I could help my family and friends as they struggle with the realities of living with breast cancer. I decided that I would donate to a place where any amount, no matter how small, could make a difference.” To purchase jewelry or a gift certificate or find out more email Deb at dbarry925@maine.rr.com.
Cancer Support Center of Maine
The Cancer Support Center of Maine
provides free services to cancer patients, survivors, and people at
risk in Maine through education, outreach, advocacy, and social
support. It helps clients navigate the often complex and confusing
bureaucracy of health management in a time of crisis with an emphasis
on free or reduced cost programs.
Race For the Cure Raises More than $310,000!
This year's Susan G. Komen Race For the Cure was held at the Bangor waterfront on Sunday, September 20. This year more than 5,000 participants raised in excess of $310,000! The race, now in its thirteenth year, is the largest 5K run/walk in Maine.
Thank you to the race organizers who worked so hard and to the race participants. Your participation in the Race For the Cure makes a real difference! Since the Maine race began in 1997, the Maine Affiliate of Susan G. Komen For the Cure has granted more than $1,000,000 to education, screening, and treatment programs in the state of Maine. The Maine Breast Cancer Coalition’s Support Service Fund has been a Maine Komen grant recipient for the past nine years, assisting underserved Maine residents with breast health and breast cancer needs. For more information about the Maine Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure go to www.komenmaine.com.
Online Breast Cancer Resource Guide Is Now Available
