 KOMEN
DETROIT RACE FOR THE CURE® SATURDAY, MAY 21,
2011
NOVEMBER,
2010 TEAM
NEWSLETTER
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| CONTENTS |
- Welcome
Back
- 2010 Race
Recap
- Grants
- Team Captain
Responsibilities
- Fundraising
Forum
- Teams Chairs
Notes
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| CONTACT
US |
Jan
Tebelman, Teams Co-Chair
Sandy
Jessop, Teams Co-Chair
Bob
Fontichiaro, "The Answer Man"
Mailing
Address:
Komen
Detroit Race for the Cure
C/O
Karmanos Cancer Institute
4100
John R - VE01RF
Detroit,
MI 48201
Komen
Detroit:
24601
Northwestern Highway
Southfield,
MI 48075
(248)
304-2080
Please
call before you come to the office to be sure someone's
here. |
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| WELCOME
BACK |
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Registration for the 20th
Annual Komen Detroit Race for the Cure® is
OPEN!
That's right - registration
officially opened October 20th, and four teams
registered the first day! We now have over
50 teams registered for the 2011 Komen Detroit Race for
the Cure®.
It's never too early. We strongly
encourage you to set up a team now, register yourself as
the first team member, and begin recruiting team members
and raising funds to help end breast cancer forever.
Were
you a team captain for the 2010 Race? You can proudly
tell your friends you've played a key role in Komen
Detroit's amazing record of raising more than $19.3
million since Detroit's inaugural Komen Race in 1992.
Together, we've made a significant impact on the breast
health of metro Detroit and helped fund research
discoveries in Michigan and around the world. Please
click here for additional information on
grant funding by Susan G. Komen for the Cure®.
May 21,
2011 will be another WONDERFUL DAY-- one of the best
parties in our community, celebrating the memory of
those we have lost, the survivorship of 2.5 million in
America and the tremendous progress that has been
made.
Don't wait. Keep the
enthusiasm alive and register now!
Congratulations to Wayne Cares
Athletics, who already
boasts 16 members on
their team!
TEAM
CAPTAIN REMINDER:
All
team captains MUST be registered
participants. Remember to register
yourself as a team
member. |
| 2010 RACE
RECAP |
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WHY did you do it?
WHY will you do it again?
WHAT will you
PROMISE?
- Total Komen Detroit Revenue: $2,305,784
- 19-year Total Komen Detroit Revenue:
$19.3 Million
- Registered participation increased by
almost 15% with an estimated crowd well over 35,000
- Total Friends for the Cure® Contribution:
$1,002,200 - accounting for 44% of total revenue
- 19-year Total Friends Contribution:
$7.4 Million
- Local Race Grants awarded: $1,559,109
- Breast Cancer Research Funding:
$428,300
TOTAL 2010 Team Fundraising
DOLLARS: $718,894 - up 13% from
2009!
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| GRANTS |
As always, 75% of our
net proceeds stay in our community (Wayne, Oakland and Macomb
counties).
Extend
and Enhance: Providing BCCCP Services to More Women in Wayne
County/ $916,536
Robert Burack, MD,
Wayne State University / Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer
Institute
The Wayne County Breast and Cervical
Cancer Control Program (BCCCP) provides breast screening,
follow up and treatment at no out-of-pocket cost to uninsured
women in the Detroit region. This grant will "extend" the
BCCCP by adding 1,350 screenings to the 6,650 funded by MDCH
and will "enhance" the program by covering its unfortunate
gaps-- MDCH does not provide coverage for breast biopsy
facility fees (women face these bills) nor for breast cancer
treatment among women denied Medicaid.
ACCESS Breast Cancer Outreach
Project/ $125,000
Adnan Hammad,
Ph.D. - ACCESS Community Health Research
Center
Arab Community Center for Economic and
Social Services (ACCESS) will continue the Breast Cancer
Outreach Project engaging in an extensive breast cancer
education, outreach, and screening program in the low-income
Arab American community. Fifteen hundred women will receive
comprehensive one-on-one health education through in-home
visits, and 1,000 women with no previous history of breast
screening will receive a free mammogram and clinical breast
exam.
Breast
Diagnostic and Limited Services Treatment to Low
Income/Uninsured Patients at the Alexander J. Walt Breast
Center / $501,571
Laura Zubeck, RN,
BSN, MBA - Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer
Institute
The Karmanos Cancer Institute's
Alexander J. Walt Breast Center grant will cover diagnostic
and limited treatment for un-/underinsured women and men who
are not eligible for other community support due to program
restrictions. The grant will also cover service gaps for some
patients enrolled in the Wayne County BCCCP. Karmanos staff
will evaluate all requests for financial assistance; provide
Komen for the Cure® educational material, system navigation,
follow-up guidance, and help with transportation and
prescription needs. For the last 17 years, Komen funding has
provided a way for Karmanos to reduce barriers of
socio-economics, language and access in providing breast care
to at-risk and minority populations in metropolitan Detroit
and the tri-county area.
Sister & Sister Program /
$16,000
Teresa Rodges, MSA Pontiac
Osteopathic Hospital Riley Foundation
Through
church-based health and education programs, the Sister &
Sister Program will expand outreach efforts to increase
mammogram screening and survival rates among hard-to-reach
uninsured and underinsured African-American women. Survivors
will teach other African-American women about the importance
of early detection by "witnessing" or talking about their
cancer experiences. Each church's Health Outreach Ministry
Leader will be trained to carry the message to more than 300
African-American women. More than 100 women will receive
access to free mammogram screenings at the POH Regional
Medical Center.
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| TEAM CAPTAIN
RESPONSIBILITIES |
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Whether you're
a first-time team captain or you've been leading a team
decades, everything is better when you know your
responsibilities, deadlines, do's, and don'ts. 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 instructions on how to create a team.
- Register yourself as a team member.
Click here
for team member registration instructions.
- Download the Team
Captain Kit. We'll be updating the Kit for the
next few months as we gather sponsors. Find helpful
information in Tips and Tools.
- Join us for one of the Team Captain Workshops held in
early 2011 (details to be announced online and in the
December Newsletter).
- Recruit people to join your team. Online team
registration ends at exactly 5:00 p.m., May 4, 2011. (Manual
team registration closes on April 25, 2011.)
- Encourage fundraising. Incentives and awards go to the
individual member as well as the team. You'll find lots of
fundraising help online and in Tips and
Tools.
- Communicate Komen Detroit information to your team -
keep them motivated!
- Encourage online registration. Less expensive for
participants and for Komen Detroit.
- Pick up and distribute team packets (shirts, bibs,
etc.). Mark your calendars NOW!
- Team Packet Pickup - These are the
only times and place to pick up your team
 packets.
- Saturday, May 7, (10 a.m.)
Early Bird Special - sign up by
e-mailing raceforthecure@karmanos.org. In order
to get your team's packet on this day, you must
help pack. Binson's Education Center, 25709 Van
Dyke, Center Line 48015 - 3/4 mile south of I-696
- Friday, May 13, (10 a.m. to 8 p.m.)
and Saturday, May 14 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
also at Binson's Education Center. Thank you, Binsons, for
your generous support!
- For any manual (paper) registrations:
- Distribute and collect paper entry
forms to team members you know cannot or will not register
online.
- Set a deadline for team members to return their forms
to you a few days ahead of your deadline for
submission (April 25, 2011)- give yourself time
to review and consolidate the paperwork.
- Verify the forms are completed, signed, and are
accompanied by accurate entry fees - note that
registration fees are higher for manual entries.
- Collect and turn in materials on time (April 25, 2011)
and all together.
Contact us. Let
us be your resource. The Teams Committee has grown, so we have
more help to answer your questions. E-mail questions to Bob
"The Answer Man" at RFTCBob@gmail.com or send a message to Team
Co-Chairs, Jan Tebelman (raceladyjan@wideopenwest.com ) or Sandy Jessop
(sjessop@att.net). |
| FUNDRAISING
FORUM |
Times are tough. So
is breast cancer. And our Komen Detroit Team Captains have
proven to be the toughest of all.
Fundraising is key to
ending breast cancer. With online tools provided through
your fundraising page and/or by planning benefit events,
fundraising is both fun and easy. Most importantly, you and
your team will make a real impact on breast
cancer.
Each Team Captain Newsletter will
highlight an upcoming fundraising event. But we
won't know unless you tell us. Please submit any fundraising
events you'd like to share with others by e-mailing Sandy
at sjessop@att.net. Tami Fink, breast cancer
survivor who is currently fighting her battle and is team
captain for Tami's Team, is already ahead of the game.
She recently held an event at Leon & Lulu's, raising
nearly $3,000. |
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NOTE FROM THE TEAMS CHAIRS |
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To our New and Returning Team
Captains,
Welcome - and welcome back.
We missed you and we're preparing for the 20th year of this
inspiring event.
What makes it so inspiring? YOU! We've
all watched Komen Detroit teams grow in numbers and impact. In
just the past five years, the number of teams has multiplied
over 400%, reaching nearly 600 teams in 2010.
Thank you
- for continuing your work to bring our vision to a reality.
For helping us keep the promise Nancy Brinker made to her
sister, Suzy. We WILL
have a world without breast cancer, thanks to
your commitment.
We will be focusing on the 20th
Anniversary in the coming months. Look for special ideas and
challenges. At least 20 of them!
We hope to see you at
our Team Captain Workshops in early 2011. Until then, don't be
strangers. Let us know how you're doing, and what we can do to
help you do what you do so well!
Jan
Tebelman -
raceladyjan@wideopenwest.com
Sandy
Jessop -
sjessop@att.net | |
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