Today I'm taking a day off nutrition blogging to ask you for your help.
On October 5th I'm running in the CIBC Run for the Cure, a charity run supporting breast cancer research.
Last year 53 communities and 170,000 Canadians participated and together helped to raise $27 million for breast cancer research, education and awareness programs.
My office at BMI has made the Run for the Cure our annual charitable cause and I'm proud to say that over the course of the past 4 years we have raised nearly $100,000 for the Run.
If you're a regular reader of my blog (or even just a passer-by) you'll know that I put a tremendous amount of work into my daily posts. I do it because I love to do it. My blog's not monetized (and never will be) and doesn't have ridiculous ads promoting dubious weight loss solutions and nobody pays me for my opinion.
All that said, if you enjoy my blog, please consider donating to my Run for the Cure efforts.
To donate click the pink button below which will take you to the CIBC Run for the Cure website. You can choose to give anonymously, you can use a credit card and if you donate more than $10, you'll receive a tax receipt.
Thank you and back to normal programming tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Yoni
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I would like to say congratulations for your blog, good information, a very clean layout and very honest about the issues.
I believe that you have to fight about what you think it's right and you are doing that by writing this post, but I heard that the amount of money raised by those campaigns for breast cancer very little money goes into research.
I even heard that the NFB is doing a documentary about these issue.
Have you heard anything about that? It will be interesting to hear your opinion about that.
Just to let you know I put your blog on my bookmarks :) , Keep the good work.
Hi Alex,
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (the organization this run supports), over the past twenty years they have allocated over $120 million in grants.
Can't comment on other breast cancer walks/runs.
Regards,
Yoni
What about PROSTATE cancer ?
ReplyDeleteThere are unfortunately a lot of cancers out there Ian.
ReplyDeleteFeel free to pick one to raise funds for.
Good luck on the fundraising front and good luck with the run! It's a fantastic cause :)
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