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MAKING STRIDES WALK Against breast cancer 2008

 

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I hope you will find this handcrafted lens a unique and useful resource for your 2008 Making Strides Walk experience. Learn about what other walkers are doing and unique ways to energize your fundraising, motivate your team & inspire yourself!

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is a noncompetitive fundraising walk to help fight breast cancer and provide hope to people facing the disease.

So grab a cup of coffee & take a look around and while you're here check out Buttons of Hope and consider making a custom photo button to wear in support of a loved one during your Making Strides fundraising and at your event!

Officlal Making Strides Walk website 

Handy info and fundraising links...

Learn more & Register for the 2008 making Strides against breast cancer fundraising walk today...
Making Strides Walk
Making Strides is a noncompetitive walk supporting the American Cancer Society's unique mission to fight cancer on four fronts: research, education, advocacy, and patient services. Hope Starts Here.
Tell me about the walk...
The average distance of the walk is five miles, depending upon your location. Individuals of all ages are welcome to participate. Take as long as you need to finish...
team AcS
Running a marathon? Honoring a loved one lost to cancer? Hosting a bake sale? With Team ACS you can memorialize the milestones in your life by turning them into a lifesaving effort.

Amercian cancer Society's Mosaic of Hope 

Stories of Hope & Love

"In loving memory of my dad (April 11, 1947-April 23, 2007), a vibrant, loving man and father, who battled four different types of cancer over twelve years: This memorial is dedicated to my dad."
...Emily Thomas

For more stories visit the American cancer Society's
Mosaic of Hope

SAVE THE DATE & Get a Free Hope Button 

Treat yourself and a friend to a couple of free Hope buttons from Buttons of Hope

To me Hope is not a passive word. Hope is action -- talk to anyone who has been touched by the Making Strides family and you'll see what I mean!

Maybe this says it best...

"be the change you wish to see in the world"...ghandi



CLICK HERE for your free Hope buttons and if you plan to do the 2008 Making Strides Walk let me know I will SAVE THE DATE for you & send you a reminder in plenty of time for you to make your custom photo buttons!

Make your own custom photo button to wear in honor of a loved one @ BUTTONS of HOPE. 

Treat yourself and a friend to a couple of free Hope buttons from Buttons of Hope

Try something new this year! Show them WHO you're walking for. Honor a loved one or support a friend by wearing a custom photo button with their picture before and during your 2008 Making Strides against breast cancer fundraising walk.

Make your custom button today at Buttons of Hope


  1. No Minimum - make one custom photo button if you like

  2. Upload a photo and add custom curved text

  3. $1 from each photo button donated to the American cancer Society

Energize your fundraising...Motivate your team... and Inspire yourself! Put a face on your cause today!

About.com's Lisa Fayed on cancer 

Helpful source for info & resource links about cancer.

Lisa Fayed is a freelance medical writer, cancer educator and patient advocate. In her free time, she likes to volunteer, go antiquing, and of course, spend time with family and friends. Lisa currently divides her time between Washington state and Florida.

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Absolutely everything you need to know about walking from Wendy Bumgardner! 

Whether it's your first charity walk or you are a fundraising champ - Wendy's posts at About.com are interesting and informative. This is really good stuff!

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So what do I know? Michael Gibbons' Behind the Button blog 

Inspired stories about the people behind the photo buttons we make & some thoughts on fundraising & charities from the founder of Buttons of Hope

Make a button and share your hero story and I will write all about it in Behind the Button!...and I will send you a cookie...seriously!

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"A year ago Mike Gibbons had never done any fund-raising. Now he hopes
to change the world" Regan White in "Message in a Button", Charlotte Weekly November 2006.

Upon reading that I was at first taken aback -- not exactly the kind of thing you want to lead with especially if your stated goal is to "change the face of fundraising". But as I thought about it IT IS PRECISELY what I want people to know and now I open all of my fundraising seminars with that line.

Fundraising is not easy nor is it as hard as you might think. I am proof of that and I am out to help ordinary people do extraordinary things -- the task is not easy but the answer is inside of each of us!

I kinda wish Regan had use this opening line instead.. 

"Here's to the crazy ones...because the people who are crazy enough to THINK they can change the world, are the ones who do."

Maybe the combination of the two sums it up -- I have been lucky enough to find a group of remarkable people, my cycling team MojoRiding and together we have become somewhat of a fund raising phenomenon (often in spite of ourselves I might add!) --we raised over $110,000 in 2007 for cancer and multiple sclerosis causes.

So how did we do it? We personalized our cause, we told a story, many stories! And then we took it a step further we made it tangible -- many of us made photo buttons of our loved ones to wear while fundraising -- can't fully explain it but there is just something powerful about these little buttons  --I have seen it make a difference and in some cases all the difference!

I hope you will take a look around (grab a cup of coffee) at what I am building here on Squidoo. I have tried to make unique, useful and updated lenses on active charity events. If you like the lenses then please visit my blog Behind the Button and of course my website Buttons of Hope -- where you too can go on make a custom photo button to wear in YOUR charity event 

The title of the full quote above is THINK DIFFERENT. Regan was right I am out to Change the World by helping people to not only think different but to be different -- it will change you and together we will be the change we wish to see...I hope one button at a time!

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