Breast Cancer Awareness Month is officially over and we owe you all a HUGE thank you! October has been a huge success and we’ve been crazy busy all month long! We’ve had countless amazing events like our 17th annual Race for The Cure, Blue Martini’s Pink Party, the Southern Women’s Show, the Orlando Sentinel’s Pink Bash, the 4th Alarm Fashion Show, Wacoal’s Fit for the Cure, Orlando Premium Outlet’s fundraiser, Islands Gone Wild, and the Sunrunners Drag Race! We are so grateful to the thousands of people that have been involved in all of these great events and for all of the funds that were raised for the fight against breast cancer. Thanks to people like you we are able to use the funds raised and truly save lives!
So many people think that the breast cancer cause is only active during the month of October. Almost every day someone comes into our office in the Oviedo Mall and asks if we are only here for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We proudly say, “NO! We are here to help you year-round!” Komen is a year-round operation, because breast cancer is a year-round disease. The funds raised during October are used to sponsor breast cancer grants in nine different counties throughout Central Florida.
You might wonder, “So where EXACTLY does the money that I give to Komen Central Florida go?” We are proud to say that 75% of all funds raised through our Susan G. Komen Central Florida Affiliate stay in our Central Florida community. This percentage is used towards breast cancer education and, through our grant programs, breast cancer screening and treatment projects. We are currently accepting grant applications for the upcoming year until December 6, 2103 (by 5 pm), so if you are interested in getting your program funded through a grant please visit http://www.komencentralflorida.org/grants/how-to-apply-for-funding/ for more information!
Thank you so much again for all of your love and support! Komen is truly changing lives, and we couldn’t do any of it without all of our fabulous volunteers, sponsors, and donors. Our fight against breast cancer doesn’t end just because October is over! Cancer doesn’t care what month it is, so we will be fighting strong all year…please continue along with us!
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