Last summer, NSMC made the decision to implement a $15 Walker Registration Fee to continue to direct more money to the NSMC Cancer Center, their patients and their families. In addition, these monies were needed to offset WALK event production expenses, and the printing and postage for the 3,500+ walkers who attend the event each and every year. These kinds of registration fees are in line with other similar walks, but as it has turned out - the timing was not terrific.
Who could have anticipated that the national and local economy would be under such stress? Each month has brought additional news of job layoffs and tough times all around. In early February, as the first NSMC Cancer WALK mailings arrived in households throughout the North Shore, they heard about the hardship the registration fee might create for us, our teammates and our donors.
So, they will eliminate the registration fee for 2009 and hope that we will join with them this year to WALK, bring friends and raise as many contributions as we can in support of the new NSMC Cancer Center. Now more than ever, they need our help.
If you have already registered on-line or by mail, they will be happy to refund the $15 fee to you, or you may allocate this money toward your fundraising goal. Please call Tracey Chalifour at 978-825-6129 (email tchalifour@partners.org) or Rose Fisher at 978-825-6116 (email rfisher3@partners.org) if you would like a refund.
For those of you that have not yet registered for the 2009 NSMC Cancer WALK, please click here to register online.
Thanks!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
WALK Talk 2009
Hello Team Hungry For Life,
I know it seems really early to start thinking about the WALK this year, which falls on Father's Day (Sunday, June 21st)~ but it's only about 4 months away. I have already begun the beginning phases of planning and hope that this year we are even bigger~ walking proud again for D. Rich!
I just booked the Salem Knights of Columbus on Monday. It is the same hall that we had our after-party at last year. The good news is that I reserved it for 10:30 am, which means we will be walking earlier than last year (and with the masses!). I am thinking we should probably meet at 8 am, same time/same place. Last year we had about 100 walkers and I think we'll have an even bigger team this June, partly in thanks to our Facebook page and being able to spread the word more efficiently there.
Anyhow, just one more quick note regarding the fundraising aspect of the WALK. This year, there is a slight change with the registration part. It seems they are charging each individual who registers online to create their own fundraising page. (Last year, there was no charge.) The fee is $15 if you register now, and $20 after June 1st.
If you want to make your own page, feel free to do so. Lisa Tocco created her own page last year and singlehandedly raised over $1K. The benefit of creating your own page is that it may encourage your family/friends to donate.
If you don't want to make your own page, feel free to pass on the Team Hungry For Life page to your family/friends. It's entirely up to you. All donations (whether made through your personal page or through the HFL team page) will be counted towards the Team Hungry For Life goal of $10K, just make sure that if you do create your own fundraising page, you specify that you want to join Team Hungry For Life during the set-up.
As far as our goal of $10K, I figure that we raised over $7K last year~ there's no reason we shouldn't aim high!
If you have any questions or concerns, please email me (bettslevine@metrocast.net).
Katie
Monday, February 9, 2009
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