March 13 2013 I will be shaving my head for the fourth straight year to help raise money for the St. Baldricks Foundation. St Baldricks is a foundation started to help raise money for cancer research for children. How St. Baldricks was started is listed below.
On March 17, 2000, reinsurance executives John Bender, Tim Kenny ( no relation of mine) and Enda McDonnell turned their industry's St. Patrick's Day party into a head-shaving event to benefit kids with cancer. Their 20 "shavee" recruits planned to raise "$17,000 on the 17th." Instead, they raised over $104,000!
The movement quickly grew into the world’s largest volunteer-driven fundraising program for childhood cancer research, and today the St. Baldrick's Foundation funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government. Since 2000, more than 189,660 volunteers -- including over 17,200 women -- have shaved in solidarity with children with cancer at events in dozens of countries and every U.S. state. Thanks to generous friends and family, these shavees have raised over $117 million for life-saving research, and each is a walking billboard for the cause!
At St. Baldrick's events, people from all walks of life discover a power they didn't know they had...the power to bring hope and a future to the bravest kids in the world, and countless volunteers say, "St. Baldrick's is the best thing I've ever done to help someone."
So I’m asking you to take a few minutes out and consider donating to this great cause. My goal is to raise $3000 and hope that it benefits many children, especially the children of the Coldwell Banker and Active Rain real estate communities. Please click here. It’s a good life
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