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City of Hope WALK FOR HOPE to Cure breast cancer

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Make a difference, Walk for Hope in 2008!

 

City of Hope, an innovative biomedical research, treatment and educational institution, is dedicated to the prevention and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases, guided by a compassionate patient-centered philosophy, and supported by a national foundation of humanitarian philanthropy. Make a difference by walking in one of the nine Walk for Hope events planned for 2008.

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

Official Walk for Hope to cure breast cancer website 

Some handy links...

Find your walk
2008 Dates to be announced
How can I help?
Opportunities for you to help. Thank you so much for your generosity and support!
Join a team, Start a team!
Teams make everything more fun!

Pam Stephen at About.com 

Whether your interest in Breast Cancer is from the perspective of a newly diagnosed patient, concerned family member or friend of a patient, or someone who wants to reduce their risk of breast cancer, this site is for you.

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Buttons of Hope: custom photo buttons 

To the world it may be just a button, but to one person that button may be the world!Try something new this year! Honor a loved one or support a friend by wearing a custom photo button with their picture at your 2008 charity walk.Try something new this ye

Try something new this year! Honor a loved one or support a friend who has battled breast cancer by wearing a custom photo button with their picture at your 2008 Walk for Hope.

Buttons of Hope


  1. No Minimum - make one button if you like

  2. Upload a photo and add custom curved text

  3. $1 from each button donated to the charity of your choice

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

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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What am I thinking? Michael Gibbons' Behind the Button blog 

Inspired stories about the people behind the photo buttons we make & some thoughts on fundraising and charities.

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Related topics: Walk for Hope,  breast cancer,  buttons of hope,  Nonprofits & Volunteering,  more

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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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