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• Make a $50 donation and get $150.00 off a $500 furniture purchase.
• Each donations allows the donor an opportunity to enter a drawing for a custom designed Century Chair OR a trip to the beach!
• Event lasts the entire month of May.
• Click Here for more information.

Thursday • May 24, 2012

• 5:30 – 9:00 pm
•  Will include a silent auction as well as a fun wine tasting where our attendees have the opportunity (if their wine “wins” the blind tasting) to take home the vault of every wine brought! 
• Location 
  5960 Getwell Rd
  Southaven, MS  38672
• Cost is $25 per person
• Bring 3 bottles of the same wine.  One bottle will be put in the vault and everyone will taste the other bottles. (Grapevine Wine & Liquor on Getwell Rd will give a 25% discount for this event)
• Whomever brings the wine that is voted the favorite will win all the wines in the vault! (In case of a tie, it will be split, so buy unique)
• Silent Auction
• Food by Good Life, Entertainment by Sax-Appeal by Mike Smith
• Silent auction and wine winners will be announced at 9 pm
• For more information call (662) 890-3562 or visit www.glfood.net

 

Sunday • June 3, 2012

• National Cancer Survivors Day is an annual, worldwide Celebration of Life that is held in hundreds of communities on the first Sunday in June.
• Memphis NCSD:  Sunday, June 3
  Time:  3:00 pm
  Location: Cancer Survivor's Park (East Side of Audubon Park
  Perkins Extended at Southern Avenue (across from Theatre Memphis) 
• The day's festivities will be hosted by Ron Childers and Joyce Peterson
• Sponsored by FedEx
• Don't forgot to wear your pink!
• Click Here for more information.

Pink Cart Program

The City of Olive Branch are offering pink garbage carts to residents for a donation of $20 or more , the pink cart is a part of Cascade Cart Solutions’ effort to Curb Cancer. The $20 or more donations goes to the Memphis-MidSouth Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. 

The City of Olive Branch is working to help build awareness and funding a fight that affects 1 in 8 women nationally- in honor of many wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, and friends who are affected by breast cancer.

Anyone interested in donating $ 20.00 or more to the Pink Cart Program please make checks payable to:

Friends of Olive Branch, Inc.
9200 Pigeon Roost Road
Olive Branch, MS 38654
Attention Pam Martin

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Rally for the Cure®

One way to educate your friends, family and community on the importance of early detection of breast cancer is by hosting a Rally for the Cure event.

Rally provides all the materials including a prize, participant favors, event decorations and important breast health information.

More information can be found at www.rallyforthecure.com

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Thank You

We would like to thank our Third Party Event Fundraisers for their recent events!

Pink Out Football Game • Rossville Christian Academy

Shoot for the Cure Pool Tournament • Theresa McGoldrick

The Breakfast Club • Malaika Salaam Management Group

Motorcycle Ride • Blue Knights Law Enforecement Motorcycle Group

Pink Cart Program• City of Olive Branch

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Host an Event

Have an idea to fundraise for our cause?  Host a Third Party Event and see your donation dollars at work within our community.

Up to 75 percent of the Affiliate’s net income goes toward funding grants to local hospitals and community organizations that provide breast health education and breast cancer screening and treatment programs for medically underserved women. The remaining net income (a minimum of 25 percent) supports the national Komen Grants Program, which funds groundbreaking breast cancer research, meritorious awards and educational and scientific programs around the world.

To get started please review our Third Party Events Guidelines.  Next complete the Third Party Events Application and return to us via fax 901-757-8372 or email info@komenmemphis.org

For questions regarding Third Party Events please contact our affiliate office at 901-757-8686 or info@komenmemphis.org.