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.
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