A True Win-Win! 
What happens when you combine an annual 3rd party event and a top-fundraising Race participant? You get the 3rd Annual Tee Off Against Breast Cancer  golf tournament at Sky Creek Ranch!

During Michele DeCardenas' year serving on the Race for the Cure organizing committee, she read about Caren Lee's team, Support Our Racks, and interviewed Caren as a team spotlight for the Teams newsletter. After meeting via phone and email last fall, Michele  and Caren finally met at the 2010 Race for the Cure in Fort Worth and now have joined forces to raise money for the 2011 Komen Greater Fort Worth Race for the Cure®. Caren is a long-time Race participant and fundraiser who has generated more than $60,000 for Komen Greater Fort Worth. She is a five-year breast cancer survivor and an advocate for women and men everywhere to fight this disease until it no longer exists. Michele is a member of the Race for the Cure organizing committee and the driving force behind the Tee Off Against Breast Cancer golf tournament, which has generated over $15,000 for our Affiliate in just two years. For 2011, the golf tournament will benefit Caren’s Race for the Cure team, Support Our Racks. You can be a part of this wonderful event - as a golfer, as a sponsor, a volunteer or even with a gift donation to Caren’s team. (Online fundraising begins October 21st.) Read More>>> 

Pink Sunday
Pink Sunday is an effort to partner with local churches and houses of worship to educate congregations on breast health and breast cancer, and to raise awareness of the disease and the importance of early detection. Our Affiliate has designated October 17th as Pink Sunday. Register for Pink Sunday online and request educational packets for your church. Make sure that your church members receive the important breast health awareness material that is vital to helping us fulfill the Komen mission. The Pink Sunday web page offers suggestions to make the day special and help engage your congregation in the fight to eradicate breast cancer. 
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3rd Party Event Spotlight
Yoplait’s signature pink lid program Save Lids to Save Lives®is taking place during September and October 2010 to once again raise funds for Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime and we need your help to save their lives!

We are encouraging you to collect the special pink Yoplait yogurt lids that begin appearing in stores in stores August 30. Ten cents for every lid collected will be donated to our local affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The program runs from August 30, 2010 through October 31, 2010. Lids can be mailed in up until December 31, 2010 or dropped off at our local Komen office at the address below by December 30, 2010. Our goal for lid collection this year is 163,061. This equals $16,306.10 for breast cancer programs and services for the uninsured and underinsured in the Greater Fort Worth area.

You can even take it a step further and rally your friends, family and coworkers to get involved in the lid drive! Go to www.yourlidmatters.comfor fun tools like downloadable posters, ideas for lid teams and things to get you started! This is a fun and easy community service program in which to involve your children and their clubs or your community service organization.

To add lids to our collection bin mail to:

Susan G. Komen, Greater Fort Worth
PO Box 101328
Fort Worth, TX 76185

If you would like to mail in lids yourself you can send them to:

Save Lids to Save Lives
P.O. Box 420704
El Paso, TX 88542-0704

Important: Lids will be tracked to our affiliate for credit by zip codes, so please be sure to include your return address with zip code.

We thank you for your support and so do the countless number of women that your donations will assist. Please don’t hesitate to contact me should you have ideas or questions. Read More>>>

Massage Envy
Visit any local Massage Envy for Massage for the Cure Day on Tuesday, September 14th! Make your reservation by visiting www.massageenvy.com. Reservations are not required, but are encouraged.  

Correction: Kylee Cook'sname was misspelled in the last newsletter when we recognized her donation of $304. Thank you for letting us know, Kylee!

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Donor Recognition
Make a donation today to honor someone you love.

Komen Greater Fort Worth is thankful for the donations received between July 1 and August 31, 2010. Please click here to see a full list of donors. 

Aetna
Cristi Aitelli
Ambit Energy
American Payroll Association Fort Worth Chapter
Lynn Bond
Adrian Driver
HEB ISD
Darby Freeman
Diane Kohsman
Vicki Lindsey
Medco
Latanya Morgan-Diaz
Omniana Fw
JPMorgan Chase Giving Campaign
Judy Point Charitable Trust
Gloria Prestridge
Propane Bottle Service Company
Billy Rosenthal
Allen Sanford
Darlene Schwab
William Seitz
Andreana Smith
Tracy Steffgen
Tara Energy
Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign
Patricia Woodall

In Honor Of:

Peggy Booher
   Jesse Booher

Annette Dover's 80th Birthday
   Jeanne Ginsberg

Margaret Farrell
   Ann Greenhill

Jan Manire
   Jeri Mcclendon

Maddie Rosenthal
   John Benjamin

In Memory Of:

Thelma Cannon
   Clara DeShan

Rose Cannone
   Cecilia Brown

Annette Fournier
   Rosa Allen
   DP Jaress
   Estella Mitchell
   Suzie Thompson
   Melba Winkenweder

Cheryl Snarr
   Ray Johnston

Ann Marie Sowers
   Cynthia Harding
   Linda Whitcomb

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