The 10th Annual CARE Walk

On May 14th, 2011 at Oakwood High School's Stadium

thank you

Thank you for supporting our Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walk on May 8th, 2010. More than 800 walkers and volunteers participated and raised almost $17,000 with monies still coming in. In spite of cold temperatures and high winds, we had as many people show up this year as last.  CARE Walk would not have been such a success without the whole community’s support.

All of the money we raise supports finding a Cure, providing Access to mammograms, funding Research to stop this disease, and providing Education and awareness about breast cancer.  Our proceeds go to the Breast Cancer Foundation, whose mission is to educate and provide breast health services for the underserved here in the Miami Valley.

Our next CARE Walk will be held on May 14th, 2011, and we hope you will mark your calendar and join us again. We will continue to walk and raise money until we can be sure our children will grow up in a world without breast cancer, and we believe it can happen.

Thank you for sharing our dream. Our dream will come true if we all keep working together!

CARE Walk 2011

Our next Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walk will be held on May 14th, 2011. 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.
Cure Access Research Education
We hope you will join us because we pamper our participants! We have bagels, fruit, water, and hot beverages for everyone. Cancer Survivors receive a free gift from Whispers Home of the Shops of Oakwood. All who pre-register receive a free gift too. Our local celebrity 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.

Breast Cancer Video Contest

The Breast Cancer Task Force, the Breast Cancer Foundation, and CARE Walk will be hosting the 3rd annual Breast Cancer Awareness Video Contest in 2010.  The contest will begin in September and the awards will be presented in March 2011.  We will award $10,000 in awards this year.  All Dayton area high school students are eligible to enter but all participants must register through their schools.  For a complete list of rules and guidelines, please visit www.breastcancertf.org.

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 & 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 more than $100,000 in the fight against cancer. Besides the annual 5K Breast Cancer CARE Walk, the team has also participated in other fundraising events, including the Breast Cancer 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.