Making Strides Rewards
The ACS Rewards program is our way of thanking you for your creativity and passion! Earn points for every dollar raised and you can redeem those points for Making Strides products and swag.
Strides RewardsNancy's Nineteen
It's Nancy's Ninteen golden anniversary... we're back for our nineteenth year of Making Strides Against Breast Cancer! While it's hard to believe it's been that long, we are so grateful to be able to continue raising money to support breast cancer research and programs for breast cancer patients and survivors. This year, we'll be doing an extra fundraising push and welcoming special participants, including Nancy's dear friend Betty, to walk with us in Durham, NC. We started doing this walk in Ann Arbor, Michigan just as Nancy was starting her journey with breast cancer. We chose the name Nancy's Nineteen because well, aliteration! And we hoped to get 19 walkers to join us. We ended up with more than 19 and even more supporters than we could have imagined, which was incredible! While she was never physically able to do the walk with us, our first two years Nancy was out there supporting us with a big smile on her face--her story was even featured in the local newspaper with pictures of our team! Our beautiful Nancy passed away from breast cancer in December 2006. She battled the disease with grace for about a year and a half, always with her head held high. Her loss is felt every single day by the many, many people who loved her. Please consider donating to support the American Cancer Society in memory of Nancy Walens. We've set our donation goal at $3,000 and hope to garner support from at least 19 donors to make this another powerful fundraising year for our team!
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Help the American Cancer Society fund cancer research, patient support, and advocacy efforts to end breast cancer as we know it, for everyone.
$12,825.10 raised of $3000 goal
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It's Nancy's Ninteen golden anniversary... we're back for our nineteenth year of Making Strides Against Breast Cancer! While it's hard to believe it's been that long, we are so grateful to be able to continue raising money to support breast cancer research and programs for breast cancer patients and survivors. This year, we'll be doing an extra fundraising push and welcoming special participants, including Nancy's dear friend Betty, to walk with us in Durham, NC.
We started doing this walk in Ann Arbor, Michigan just as Nancy was starting her journey with breast cancer. We chose the name Nancy's Nineteen because well, aliteration! And we hoped to get 19 walkers to join us. We ended up with more than 19 and even more supporters than we could have imagined, which was incredible! While she was never physically able to do the walk with us, our first two years Nancy was out there supporting us with a big smile on her face--her story was even featured in the local newspaper with pictures of our team! Our beautiful Nancy passed away from breast cancer in December 2006. She battled the disease with grace for about a year and a half, always with her head held high. Her loss is felt every single day by the many, many people who loved her.
Please consider donating to support the American Cancer Society in memory of Nancy Walens. We've set our donation goal at $3,000 and hope to garner support from at least 19 donors to make this another powerful fundraising year for our team!
Thank you for fueling the American Cancer Society's fight against cancer.
Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024 9AM
Location: Durham 27701, NC
Cancer hits far too close to home, so the funds you raise will help do the same. Through services and resources like free rides to chemo, free places to stay near hospitals, and a live 24/7 helpline, cancer patients and their families will feel the love. Here’s how recent money raised has been put to incredible uses.
As of January 2022, we have invested $71 M for potentially lifesaving breast cancer specific research grants.
We have received over 250,000 calls and chats from patients and caregivers seeking support in 2021
Cancer patients benefited from ACS transportation support through our Road TO Recovery program and transportation grants in 2021, with nearly 229,000 rides provided.
Many thanks to our generous sponsors for fueling the American Cancer Society's fight against breast cancer.
Making Strides Rewards
The ACS Rewards program is our way of thanking you for your creativity and passion! Earn points for every dollar raised and you can redeem those points for Making Strides products and swag.
Strides RewardsThis isn’t what I wanted.
Welcome to our Team Page. We've formed a team because this cause is important to us. We want to help. And walking and raising money in our local American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event is the best way we can do that. We all have different reasons for participating but we share a determination to help save lives from breast cancer.
There are so many ways that the money our team raises helps. It’s helping fund innovative research. It's providing free information for people dealing with the disease. It’s providing rides to treatment and places to stay for people who have to seek treatment far from home. In short, our money is helping save lives. Consider donating to our team and helping advance the cause.
How We Support the American Cancer Society
Of course we walk in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event. And we solicit donations from family, friends, and other supporters. But we also schedule fundraisers in lead-up to the big event. Bake-sales, car washes, and countless other types of events. And we promote those on social media, through Facebook and Twitter, by word of mouth, and through flyers at work and around the neighborhood. The success of fundraising events depends on two things - hard work and getting the word out. And we're out to do both. Keep an eye out for our fundraising events.
Join us. Donate today. Or walk with us.