We rock! We’re number 9 in DC!!!

Hi- After our awesome 12/17 mile walk today along Miriam’s most awesome route, I was delighted to come home (without any blisters ) and see that our team was in the top ten teams for fund raising. We have raised $33,580 and are in the ninth slot!!! Awesome. In these last weeks, let’s keep the funds rolling in. If you have reached your goal, as many have, can you send out the team link and ask your friends to donate to a worthy team member who still needs to raise their $1800? This is the team link:http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR/Walk/WashingtonDC?team_id=73122&pg=team&fr_id=1910

If you have extra checks, bring them to a training walk to share.

Next week’s walk will be on Sunday- 17+ with a shorter option. Please come and get to know your team mates.

Also, we really need cheerers to cheer loud and clear along the route. Send your friend’s, co-workers and family’s names who are willing to spend part of sat and/or sun along the route to Gina Deluca.

She will be having an orientation meeting shortly. Cheerers make such a big difference on the walk. They will get cool team hats and shirts too.

And speaking of shirts, we do not have shirt sizes from everyone yet; please send your size to Jeanne this week. We also need cell phones for a few of you, so we can be in touch along the route and look out for each other.

We are in the home stretch! Go team!!!

Captains J and H.

We’re #10!!!

Hey all- we made it into the top ten DC teams!!!! In the last 2 days alone we have raised $4,000!!! Unbelievable- we are now at $24,340!! Keep those donations coming in! If you have checks, please send them in ASAP so they are credited; they take a few weeks. Encourage online donations. If you are already at $1800 (and 4 or more of us are), please encourage friends to donate to another team member and give them the “donate to the team link”. Tell them to pick someone who needs funds (but not someone with zero- a few of these individuals have dropped out).

Here’s our team site and here’s our top 10 rank!

We also need more walkers and lots more individuals to sign up to cheer the team on. Send names and contact info for cheerers to Gina DeLuca: gmd34@georgetown.edu.

See you all on sun (around 1pm again) for the next training walk (12 miles with a shorter option).

We walked 11 miles today, have raised 20k and have two new team members!

Hi all- It was a great day and 10 of us walked on the wild side through the zoo, down to Georgetown and up the exorcist stairs and back. It was great and Felicia is our new pace setter! Hope all who were not with us were out walking.

Our Walk on Sunday

And wasn’t I delighted to get home and see that we are up to raising 20k and that we have not one, but two new members!! Welcome to Erica and Vesta!!!

Next week’s training walk will be on sunday. We have two options- one starting at van ness metro and going in to rock creek park to walk on beach drive where it is closed and then loop back, or start in bethesda, go down crescent trial and then onto the trail to great fallls and mcarthur. email preferences (or other ideas). We are targeting a 12 miler (with earlier peel off points).

Please email your shirt size and cell phone # so we can be in touch.

Keep those legs a walking and the fund raising going! Cheers, Jeanne (Harriet is off to a meeting in Amsterdam walking on the canals)

We’re at 19k and 33 members

Hi all- just some good news- another our our team members has hit (and exceeded) the 1800 goal- congrats to Rachael A!!! Looks like 10 or more of us will walk Sunday for a zoo loop. Jeanne W is walking in VA on Sat am if others can join her. Go team!!

Important Team Info

First, welcome to Rebecca, our newest team member!

Next, we had a really productive funding raising brainstorming sesion today. Leslie K, who is a fund raiser and Lombardi alum volunteered and gave us some great ideas. Once we have dates and venues firmed up in the next wek, we will need everyone to make a big push to get people (everyone you know) to the events, so we can raise lots of $ for the team. Leslie also had some great individual fund raising tips; we will email those documents in a bit. A hugh “Thank you” to Leslie from the whole team!!!!

We have raised $17.6k so far, but many of you have nothing showing. I am hoping you have checks in hand. please mail them in with the coupoons asap so they are credited. The top ten number to beat today is $21.7k- we can do that and get into the top ten.

The other important thing we accomplished today was to work with Allison Whitney, Director of Communications for Lombardi, on “branding” the team and getting the CBCC message out there. She had a great idea- we will have shirts and hats and a big, beautiful CBCC butterfly pin for our hats. We will be able to pick each other out of the crowd and will look cool. Also, cheering volunteers will be wearing the butterflies and handing them out to walkers all along the walk!! We will wear pink with white hats and our butterflys. I know we were interested in other colors, but for many excellent reasons, we agreed pink would be our best bet. Thank you Allison, the butterfly queen! And thanks to Gina who is coordinating to get the order in for all our cool gear.

So, WE NEED YOUR SHIRT SIZE. Please send Jeanne your size this next week, so we can get the order going.

This week’s training walk:
The National Zoo
Distance: 10 miles (or less if you want to peel off at any point). We will go through the zoo, down rock creek park to the waterfront, along the water and back around via streets to the zoo in a loop.

Hope to see you there with body glide on your feet, wicking socks (no cotton), waist or back pack, water bottle and snacks.

If you have not done so, please RSVP so we know to wait for you to start. Call Jeanne’s cell for any last minute changes.

The following week we are both out of town, so we need a volunteer to lead the walk.

That’s it for now. Looking forward to meeting everyone we haven’t met yet. Walk, walk, walk and ask for donations, your captains, Jeanne and Harriet

Great Start Party Update

Despite the snow, we recruited 3 walkers this Saturday at the Avon Walk Great Start Party! We chatted with a few others and are working on recruiting them to our team as well!

Knit one, cure one has new supporters!

“Knit one, cure one” is pleased to be supported by the following generous donors:

Frabjous fibers (www.frabjousfibers.com)

Be Sweet (http://www.besweetproducts.com)

Both of these sponsors are fair trade companies that distribute wonderful fibers and are commited to doing good worldwide. We appreciate their support of our fight against breast cancer.  I hope you will enjoy the crafts we make using their donations and will wear them in good health.

We also want to thank dedicated knitters who have contributing by donating time and knitting or making jewelry:

Michele Gordon

Kathy Benajnim 

If you want to donate by contributing material or time or promoting our sales, please contact Jeanne at:

cdrofla@aol.com and put knit one cure one in the subject line.

Best, the “Knit one, cure one” team

We did it!!

fresh start at dawn

Together our 21 woman-strong team walked more than 600 miles this past weekend and raised over $46 k to benefit women in DC. We helped ensure that all women have access to breast cancer education, screening and treatment.  We were cheered on by the awesome Lombardi cheering team.  To all who walked- we salute you! To all who cheered- we could not have done it without you. To all who donated- you made it all possible. Thank you all!!

We are starting our team and fund raising for next year. So, sign up now- our goal is to be 50 walkers and to raise 100k.  We can becase we must!

Your captains in good health, rain or shine, Jeanne and Harriet

a soggy but joyful finish

we’re up to 35k and 22 miles!

Walking in the Rain

walking in the rain

We had a fun walk in the drizzle on Saturday; the cherry trees were a great motivator as was Erin’s photography!