Dear CARE Walk Supporters,

Thank you for supporting our Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walk on May 9th. Approximately 800 walkers and volunteers participated and raised $17,700. CARE Walk would not have been such a success without our community’s help once again. We had many volunteers from the schools and city, sponsors from local businesses, and donations of door prizes, food, entertainment, and more. Our sincerest thanks to all who help make CARE Walk such a success year after year.

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. This year our proceeds went to the Breast Cancer Foundation, which offers free mammograms to the underinsured and supports the Breast Cancer Awareness Video Contest (via You Tube) for local high school students. This year the contest was open to five schools—Centerville, Kettering, Miamisburg, Oakwood, and Stivers—and $7,000 was given to the top two video teams at each school (one school had only one entry). We hope next year to invite more schools/students to join in this awareness campaign that encourages family and friends to talk about the importance of early detection and mammograms in the fight against breast cancer.

Our next CARE Walk will be held on May 8, 2010, and we would love for you to join us. 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!

Sincerely,

Leigh Ann Fulford
Executive Director
CARE Walk, Inc.