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Friends
- the Pan-Mass Challenge is just four days away. Will you help me raise
money for this incredibly important cause? One hundred percent of
proceeds go directly toward cancer research. Click here to donate today.
Scott Brown
I
write to you today to talk about something very important to me. It's
not related to my campaign or bills under consideration by the United
States Senate. I'm reaching out to ask for your help in fighting cancer
- a terrible disease we are all too familiar with but that continues to
take the lives of people around our state, our country, and the world.
For
the third year in a row, I will join 5,500 other cyclists riding in the
Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) to raise money for life-saving cancer research
and treatments.
There are many impressive facts and figures about the PMC I could share but these two really jump off the page:
- Since
its founding in 1980, the PMC "has raised $338 million for cancer
research and patient care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through
the Jimmy Fund."
- "The event donates 100% of every rider-raised contribution directly to the cause."
Plain
and simple, the PMC's focus on its mission is laser-like and they are
vigilant in ensuring the funds they raise go to that mission. This
year's goal is $36 million - ambitious as always - but achievable with
the commitment of people like you who want to wipe out the pain that
cancer inflicts on its victims and those who love them.
Last year
I rode in honor of Judge Samuel Zoll of Salem, who passed away in 2011
from gallbladder cancer at the age of 76. A veteran of 27 Pan-Mass
Challenges, Judge Zoll was a beloved friend and mentor to me and a key
figure in my early development. He called the PMC "more than just a
bike ride, more than just a demanding physical challenge, more than just
the camaraderie surrounding a missionary expedition - it is a
commitment beyond one's self interest which drives you in pursuit of the
final chapter in the history of curing a devastating disease, a disease
that has touched so many." I couldn't agree more.
This year I
ride for him and as a member of "Team Lenny." The team is dedicated to
raising money - through the PMC and Jimmy Fund - for the Leonard P.
Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies at the Dana Farber Cancer
Institute. Leonard Zakim was a civil rights activist, who as executive
director of the New England Region of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL),
worked tirelessly to build stronger relations within diverse greater
Boston communities.
Lenny was diagnosed with cancer, and as a
result of his ordeal battling cancer, founded the Zakim Center at the
Dana Farber Cancer Institute to provide support services for patients
undergoing cancer treatments. Having sought empowerment and
self-determination during his own treatments through alternative
therapies unavailable at the Dana Farber, Lenny was compelled to
establish a center 'in house' that offers integrative and coordinated
therapies to improve cancer patients' capacity to endure treatments and
to increase their resiliency.
I am writing you to ask you to
sponsor my Pan-Mass Challenge ride by making a donation to the Jimmy
Fund to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute's Leonard P. Zakim
Center for Integrative Therapies.
There are two means to sponsor my ride: Visit www.pmc.org
and use my Gift ID 71018-3 "Scott Brown." The other is to mail a check
back to me, made out to PMC/Jimmy Fund, at P.O. Box 566, Wrentham, MA,
02093, with the PMC ID# 71018-3.
Thank you and train safely.
Scott Brown |
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