Community Associates Expanding TBBCF Horizons

The Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation is honored to welcome a variety of exceptional organizations and individuals from all around our community who support our goal in a variety of unique ways. Each organization, independently organized and championed, has offered brilliant ideas for fundraising offers and events to support the foundation. Our community associates provide the TBBCF with the opportunity to reach an extensive and varied audience, by introducing the important work we do to fund breast cancer research. These extraordinary individuals and groups have generously committed to donate a percentage of their profits to the cause. These neighborhood initiatives provide our community associates an opportunity to make a positive impact on the fight against breast cancer.

Please join us in supporting these community organizations and events:

W.I.S.E. (Wise Individualized Senior Experience) PROGRAM
Wise Individualized Senior Experience, Inc. (WISE Services) is a not-for-profit organization with administrative and mentoring expertise earned in three decades of work. The staff assists schools in developing, maintaining and renewing high school senior experience programs tailored to the needs of individual districts. Individualized senior experience programs offer a unique opportunity for partnerships between schools, community agencies and businesses to create a comprehensive learning experience. In 2008, three seniors at Old Saybrook High School developed W.I.S.E. projects with fundraising proceeds benefiting TBBCF.

LIFE AFTER THE STORM
Hardly anything in life is more stressful than a scary diagnosis: sitting across from a doctor who is telling you that the test results came back, and yes, it is cancer. And yet, according to Melissa Burns of Guilford, a woman who's lived through that moment, the most difficult part of the breast cancer journey begins when the medical treatment ends.

WALKING ACROSS THE CURRICULA
"Finding Solutions To Cancer as We Find Solutions in Math!" Guided as the brainchild of teacher Jay Gionet, students at the East Lyme Middle School began an interdisciplinary community service project in September of 2007, where students were solving investigative problems in school as they helped others solve a real-world problem known as breast cancer. This year a number of other schools across the country have joined in the math-driven project.

BREAST CANCER GOLF TOURNAMENTS
Barbara O'Connell has launched a campaign to recruit golf clubs to join TBBCF's fight against breast cancer. She has reached out to a number of private and semi-private golf clubs throughout New England and even as far away as Florida. Her goal is to recruit at least two clubs per year. O'Connell is currently working with several semi-private clubs to organize open tournaments in 2009. If you play golf and think your club would be interested in supporting this great organization, you can contact Barbara O'Connell at tbbcf@sbcglobal.net. You can also call the Foundation office: 860-245-0402.

DEEP RIVER SNACKS
Deep River Snacks, a family owned and operated gourmet snack food company located in Old Lyme, CT, is pleased to announce that they have joined together with the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation to promote breast cancer awareness and to raise money to find a cure.

PIKME GOES PINK
PIKME, a line of stationery products, has designed a special line, The Pink Cherry Tree collection including boxed stationery, gift tags, and stickers, all imprinted with a beautiful image of a spring-time cherry tree in bloom.

bellaPerlina SPECIAL EDITION BREAST CANCER BRACELET & LARIAT
bellaPerlina is the creation of Andrea Panullo and Betsy Drake Turner. Together they design and create individual jewelry pieces on site. They have designed a bracelet and lariat in support of Brest Buds of the Shoreline in their Walk Across Southeastern Connecticut.

BOWERBIRD GIFT WRAP PROGRAM
The Bowerbird in Old Lyme has selected the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation as the recipient of the proceeds from their 2008 gift-wrap program.

The program runs from November 1, 2007 through October 31, 2008.

BJ's WHOLESALE CLUB SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP OFFER
BJ's Wholesale Club is offering four great reasons to join or renew your current membership!

• Get $10 off their $45 annual membership fee
• Receive an additional three (3) months of free membership (if you are a current member, BJ's will add 15 months to your current expiration date)
• Receive a free second membership card for a household member
• PLUS BJ's will donate $5 of your membership fee to The Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation.

Golfer, Marathoner, Activist and Fight Promoter... what could be next for Barb O'Connell?

Barbara O'Connell is one of the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation (TBBCF) year round volunteers. The TBBCF volunteers, known as the Foundation Leaders, help run this all-volunteer organization. As a Foundation Leader, Barb finds herself wearing several hats.

Attention Fundraising Divas - the gal to beat might be a guy!

Eric Bauman had to reach deep when competing at the Olympic Triathlon in New York City on July 20, but thoughts of his late friends, Terri and Tim Brodeur, propelled him forward in the blistering heat.

My quads cramped up, and I started thinking, 'I'm not stopping, I'm running through it, and then I started thinking back to Tim and Terri and some of the pain that they went through, and that brings inspiration,' " says Bauman, who raised almost $7,000 for the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation for his triathlon efforts, making him the guy the gals will have to beat to be the top fund-raiser this year.

SWING INTO SUMMER - EVENTS SCHEDULE

• August 12, 2008   Golf Tournament at Lyman Orchards
  Congratulations to Life after the Storm Organizers on another highly successful event!
• August 20, 2008   Fundraising/Walker Training Orientations
• September 11, 2008   Art Bra Auction & Art Raffle
• October 3, 2008   Pre Walk Pasta Dinner for Walk Across SE CT Walkers and Crew
• October 11, 2008   Pink Tie Affair

.... and much more!

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