Welcome to Kathy Ellis's Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day PledgePage
This is a picture of my dear friend, Mary Landsteiner, as she was about to leave on an ALVIN submersible dive to the floor of the Pacific Ocean with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Mary was able to make this dive during the few healthy months that she had after a bone marrow transplant and before her breast cancer metastasized and eventually took her life. The world lost a talented oceanographer and I lost a best friend.
In July of this year, I will be participating in a very special and powerful event in the fight against breast cancer. It's called the Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day. I will be walking 60 miles from San Jose to San Francisco in Mary's memory, but more importantly, I will be raising money to fund Avon's Breast Cancer Awareness Crusade, a non-profit initiative of Avon Products. In partnership with the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), grants are awarded to non-profit organizations that educate medically under-served women about the facts of breast cancer, and the benefits of early detection and treatment. It also funds medical research that may some day find the cause and cure for breast cancer. (For example, Avon recently gave a $10 million grant to UCSF to fund new research.)
In America this year, a new case of breast cancer will be diagnosed every 3 minutes. Every 13 minutes, the disease will claim another life. That's why I'm walking. I hate this disease. Walking 60 miles in three days will guarantee a few blisters on my feet, but the money I raise will reach women I don't know with hope and help. Right now, early detection is the best weapon that we have. And that's worth my time and discomfort. I hope that you'll be a partner with me in this effort.
Would you please consider making a fully tax-deductible pledge to help me meet my goal? Click the "donate" link on the left side of this page to see instructions on how to donate.
There are over one million women in America with undetected breast cancer. I am walking to help all women have access to early detection and diagnosis programs, and to help fund critical medical research. I am walking in the hope that my daughters won't have to say good-bye to a best friend far too soon.
Thanks in advance for your support!
Kathy
In July of this year, I will be participating in a very special and powerful event in the fight against breast cancer. It's called the Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day. I will be walking 60 miles from San Jose to San Francisco in Mary's memory, but more importantly, I will be raising money to fund Avon's Breast Cancer Awareness Crusade, a non-profit initiative of Avon Products. In partnership with the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), grants are awarded to non-profit organizations that educate medically under-served women about the facts of breast cancer, and the benefits of early detection and treatment. It also funds medical research that may some day find the cause and cure for breast cancer. (For example, Avon recently gave a $10 million grant to UCSF to fund new research.)
In America this year, a new case of breast cancer will be diagnosed every 3 minutes. Every 13 minutes, the disease will claim another life. That's why I'm walking. I hate this disease. Walking 60 miles in three days will guarantee a few blisters on my feet, but the money I raise will reach women I don't know with hope and help. Right now, early detection is the best weapon that we have. And that's worth my time and discomfort. I hope that you'll be a partner with me in this effort.
Would you please consider making a fully tax-deductible pledge to help me meet my goal? Click the "donate" link on the left side of this page to see instructions on how to donate.
There are over one million women in America with undetected breast cancer. I am walking to help all women have access to early detection and diagnosis programs, and to help fund critical medical research. I am walking in the hope that my daughters won't have to say good-bye to a best friend far too soon.
Thanks in advance for your support!
Kathy