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EARLY BIRD SPECIAL

After holding registration fees steady for more than five years, this year's pricing has changed. We continue to offer advantages to teams, youth, and seniors while maintaining free entries for children 5 and under.

So, what's the Early Bird Special?

We're offering $25 Early Bird Special online pricing to adults (individuals and team members) through January 1, 2012. Beginning January 2, adult team members registration fee will increase to $30 and adult individuals will increase to $35. These fees are ONLINE PRICING ONLY - please encourage all team members to register online. Youth and senior pricing will remain at $15 for team members until team registration ends on May 8th.

So, now is the time to:

1) Register your team.

2) Register yourself as the first team member.

3) Begin recruiting team members and raising funds to help end breast cancer forever.

BEING A TEAM CAPTAIN

Whether you're a first-time team captain or a veteran, it's always more fun when you know your responsibilities, including deadlines. Here are some important Team Captain steps: 

• Register your team (even if your team members register with paper forms, you must register your team name online). Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to create a team. You must register every year - even if you use the same team name as in the past. 
• Register yourself as a team member.
• Visit the Race website to view the downloadable 2012 Team Captain Kit (coming soon).
• Join us for a Team Captain Workshop - the FIRST one is November 17, 2011.
• Recruit people to join your team. Online team registration ends at midnight, May 8, 2012. (Manual team registration closes on April 30, 2012.)
• Remind everyone about the Early Bird Special. Your team will not only save money, but can start fundraising earlier. Everyone wins!
• Encourage every team member to fundraise. Lots of fundraising tips in upcoming newsletters and the Team Captain Kit.
• Communicate Race and breast cancer information to your team - educate and empower.
• Encourage online registration. Less expensive for registrants.

TEAM CAPTAIN WORKSHOPS

While we are planning three workshops, we invite you to come join us at our first workshop scheduled:

Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 6:30-8:30 p.m.

These workshops target both new and veteran team captains. You'll hear information about team-building, fundraising, and what's happening at Susan G. Komen for the Cure. You can also learn and
share information with other team captains to help ensure your successful team. We'll even share some coffee and dessert along with those great ideas!

All workshops will be held at the Komen Detroit office,

located at:

Karmanos Cancer Institute "Vee" Building

24601 Northwestern Highway; Southfield, MI 48075 Map

To attend the first workshop, please RSVP to raceforthecure@karmanos.org or call (248) 304-2080. Make sure you let us know how many will be joining us. The next two workshops will be announced in our December newsletter, so stay tuned.

FRIENDS FOR THE CURE PROGRAM

Through fundraising, you and your team can make the biggest impact on breast cancer. Times are

Tami Fink's husband, Gary, and son, David, at September Celebration. Tami lost her battle this past May.

tough. Breast cancer is tougher. And our Komen Detroit team captains have proven to be the toughest of all. Captains lead through their own personal fundraising and set the bar for their teams. With the online tools we provide and by planning benefit events, fundraising is fun and easy.

Last year, the Friends for the Cure program raised over $1.1 million. Our 2012 goal is to break that record and have the Friends program raise $1,200,000. Plan your attendance at one or all of the fundraising celebrations highlighted below, by creating an individual and team fundraising goal today. 

September Celebration

To receive an invitation, a team must have at least 40 members raise

at least $5,000 or as an individual that raise at least $1,000. Attendees, enjoy refreshments, awards, a breast cancer presentation by

Karmanos Cancer Institute experts and a chance to win an American Airlines ticket for every $1,000 raised.

2010 Platinum Club members.

Platinum Club - March

To become a member and be invited to a "Thanksgiving Dinner"

prepared by Komen Detroit Planning Committee, individuals must raise at least $2,500.

Promise Club

To become a member, and be invited to dine with Komen-funded

Promise Club members at 1917 American Bistro.

scientists, individuals must raise at least $5,000.

Race Day Team Awards

Closing ceremony on Race day honors top runners and teams. Can't you see your team coming onstage to pick up your award?

Congratulations on the Pink Squirrels for scheduling its first fundraiser for the 2012 season!

Click here for a recap of the 2011 Friends for the Cure honorees. 

2011 RACE RECAP

TOTAL 2011 TEAM FUNDRAISING DOLLARS: $829,306 - up 14% from 2010!

MORE WAYS YOU CAN TAKE ACTION

2011 KOMEN DETROIT GRANTS 

As always, 75% of the net fundraising dollars stay in our local community, while the remaining 25% supports research grants made by Susan G. Komen to scientists in Michigan and around the world. Learn about our 2011 local Komen Detroit grants, made to breast cancer programs serving Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. Share this information with your teammates and anyone who may need help.

KOMEN RESEARCH GRANTS 

Scientists at six Michigan institutions received more than $6 million for significant new research into treatments for aggressive forms of breast cancer and methods to detect breast cancer earlier, with Susan G. Komen for the Cure funding. Komen's Promise Grants are multi-million dollar, multi-year, collaborative grants aimed at answering difficult questions in breast cancer and translating their findings into outcomes that will affect patient care. For more information on Komen's research program click here.

KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE, LOCAL PRESENTING SPONSOR 

21 years of giving and going strong. Thank you, Karmanos Cancer Institute!

 Local presenting sponsor of the Komen Detroit Race for the Cure, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute is committed to a future free of cancer. As Michigan's only hospital solely dedicated to treating cancer, and the most preferred hospital for cancer care in southeast Michigan, the Karmanos Cancer Institute is one of 41 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. Caring for 6,000 new patients annually on a budget of $216 million and conducting more than 700 cancer-specific scientific investigation programs and clinical trials, the Karmanos Cancer Institute is among the nation's best cancer centers.