support our cause
One-hundred percent of the proceeds from the Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walks go directly to the underserved and uninsured right here in the Miami Valley. We are completely volunteer-driven to get the most out of the money we collect.
contact us
CARE Walk, Inc.
219 Orchard Drive
Dayton, OH 45419-1722
Phone: (937) 294-3816
welcome
Our next Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walk will be held on Saturday, May 10, 2008. The start/finish is at Oakwood High School’s Stadium, and the route (with an optional one-mile turnaround) follows the interior residential streets in Oakwood’s southeastern quadrant. We do not cross major thoroughfares or busy intersections, and the route is fairly flat. It is a great walk for people of all ages and abilities.
We hope you will join us because we pamper all of our participants! We have bagels, fruit, water, and hot beverages for everyone. Breast Cancer Survivors receive a free gift from our lead sponsor, Whispers Home of the Shops of Oakwood. Pre-registrants receive a free gift, too. Dan Edwards emcees our morning festivities with great music and interviews. Walkers can stroll through our health fair before and after the walk. The health fair, called Health CARE, will cover a variety of topics not limited to breast cancer.
important information about pre-registration
In the past we have had up to 500 walkers, so we strongly encourage all to pre-register before May 10 so that registration on the morning of CARE Walk goes smoothly. Even if you miss the April 25th deadline, please pre-register! We have a free stainless travel mug for all pre-registration forms we receive (one per family please). In addition, you will probably get the shirt size or puppy you would like to order if you pre-register. We order extras of everything for CARE Walk, and all orders are filled on a first-come, first served basis. So, PLEASE PRE-REGISTER! Thank you!
our foundation
The Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walk began in 2002 in the hearts of the PE students in Oakwood schools. It all began when students noticed a couple of moms walking in the neighborhood A LOT, training for a 60-mile walk for breast cancer in Atlanta. The moms were invited into the PE classes to walk with and talk about long distance walking and training in the elementary and junior and senior high schools. In every class, the same question came up again and again: Why are you walking so much? When the students heard of the breast cancer cause, many wanted to walk too. Several students had family members who had had breast cancer, and the majority of the students knew of someone who had the disease. The kids wanted to do something to help right here in Dayton, and that is how the Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walk started, and it has gotten bigger and better year after year.
Over the years, the CARE Walk team has raised tens of thousands of dollars in the fight against cancer. Besides the annual 5K Breast Cancer CARE Walk, the team has also participated in other fundraising events, including the Susan G. Komen 3-Days (60-mile walks) in Atlanta, Chicago, and Detroit, and the American Cancer Society’s 24-hour Relays for Life and the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer annual walks.
CARE Walk also works closely with the Breast Cancer Foundation of Dayton and the Breast Cancer Task Force of the Greater Miami Valley to help the underserved in the Dayton area get access to mammograms, treatments, and education about breast health. The latest collaboration of CARE Walk with these two local organizations was the very successful Breast Cancer Video Awareness Contest hosted on You Tube. We also help with the Paint the Square Pink event at Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton the first week of October each year. We are very involved with our Dayton community.
Since 2003, 100% of the proceeds from the Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walk go directly to the underserved and uninsured right here in the Miami Valley. We are completely volunteer-driven to get the most out of the money we collect.
a brighter future
Our CARE Walk team believes children should grow up in a world without breast cancer. Our hopes are fourfold: Cure for breast cancer; Access to mammograms, treatments, and support groups for families of all income levels; Research to prevent and stop the progress of breast cancer; and Education to spread the word about this “silent disease” that affects 1 in 8 women.
who we are
CARE Walk attracts all sorts of people: young, old, big, small, male, female, students, parents, teachers, coaches, etc. We are very indebted to all of these walkers and to our volunteer base of service groups, such as Oakwood High School’s Women’s Issues and Oakwood Giving, various church youth groups, local boy and girl scouts, and the City Safety Department. We would sincerely like to thank our sponsors and prize donors without whom the continued growing success of CARE Walk would not be possible.