21st annual Susan G. Komen
Detroit Race for the Cure
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Invite out-of-town guests and make a long, holiday weekend of it. Enjoy all that our community has to offer! Watch our video and you won’t want to miss our 2012 Race! Thank you, Kelly Dzierzawski, MadCap Productions and Michigan Association of CPAs.

Donations submitted after July 1, 2011 qualify for 2012 Friends for the Cure® incentives and will fund 2012 community programs (75%) and research (25%) grants.

Volunteer opportunities for the May 26, 2012 race are online at the link above. Thank you to all our 2011 volunteers! We hope you will come back.

KOMEN DETROIT CONTACTS

Breast cancer is 24/7 - 365! And we're working year-round to end breast cancer forever.

We are a year-round community resource, providing breast cancer education, public policy advocacy, patient and family support and navigation and volunteer opportunities. Contact us if you’d like to get involved in our work to end breast cancer forever.

Komen Detroit Office: Phone (248) 304-2080 Fax (248) 304-2081 Email raceforthecure@karmanos.org

Clockwise, from bottom: Lisa Braddix, Breast Cancer Program Specialist; Amelia Zubeck, Administrative Assistant; Katrina Studvent, Manager and Race Co-Chair; Mo Keenan Meldrum, Director and Race Chair; Maggie Walsh, Coordinator.

RACE MEMORIES

For photos of our 2011 Race to view and purchase, please visit http://DetroitRFTC.dotphoto.com. Proceeds benefit Komen Detroit. Thanks to our Photojournalism Co-Chairs Kelly Dzierzawski
Kelly Dzierzawski, Paula Kaye
Paula Kaye, Sean Keenan
Sean Keenan and Bill Kern
Bill Kern.

Wonderful memories of a very special day, courtesy of media partners who gave us so much support. Some of these links may expire soon. More information on our Facebook page or click Race Recap. Thank you to all who made May 21, 2011 such an awesome day. Come back on May 26, 2012.

RUNNER RESULTS

Thank you, Motor City Striders and all of our runners. Check results here. Check RunMichiigan.com photos here. Congratulations, Matt Fecht
Matt Fecht, on setting a new men's record at 14:52.

20TH ANNUAL COMMEMORATIVE PINS

Pins are still available from the Komen Detroit Office. They can be used as a gift for family and friends, your team members or donors, or you can get started on 2012 fundraising, using them as incentives. To purchase pins, please call (284.304.2080) or email the Komen Detroit office.

LOST LOVED ONES

We hope you will stop by our Memorial Site
Memorial Site at this year's Race. Our thanks to Wayne State University ArtsCorps Detroit and volunteers who helped make this happen — especially Leslie Kaiser
Leslie Kaiser and Heather Lynn Marks
Heather Lynn Marks. Watch for this communal artwork to grow at next year’s Race.

Every year, more than 40,000 women will die from breast cancer in the U.S. alone. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the friends and families who suffer this terrible loss. In their memory, we redouble our energies in the battle to end breast cancer forever.

Images of friends we have lost to breast cancer appear here. If you have a photo you would like us to add, please send it with identifying information to raceforthecure@karmanos.org (electronic images only, please).

Click here to Share Your Story of Celebration and/or Memory.

KOMEN INVESTMENTS IN SCIENCE AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Komen for the Cure Research Grants
Komen is the world’s largest private funder of breast cancer research, having invested $685 million since 1982 and playing a role in funding every major advance in breast cancer science over the past 30 years.

This year 40% of Komen’s research funding will be invested in projects that seek to understand the underlying origins of breast cancer and why it has the capacity to spread throughout the body.

For more information on grants made to Michigan researchers, click here.

For more information on Komen's research grant program, click here.

Komen Detroit Race for the Cure Local Program Grants
For information about grants for breast cancer screening, treatment support and education programs, click here.

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