Gift of Life Breakfast Benefit
SAVE THE DATE!
October 13, 2011 marks the Center's 5th Anniversary Gift of Life Breakfast, CBCC's largest signature annual fundraising event. If you confirmed attendance, but are now unable to participate, you are welcome to make a donation online.
The Center is pleased to welcome Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz (D-FL), who will open the breakfast with her inspiring words. We are thrilled that Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Dr. Felicia Knaul, will keynote the breakfast. Dr. Knaul is not only living with cancer, but she is dedicated to promoting breast cancer research, education and awareness via her nonprofit in Mexico. The President of the Avon Foundation for Women, Carol Kurzig, will also provide remarks and CBCC welcomes back Angie Goff, of NBC4, as the event's emcee.
Nearly 500 members of the community gather to celebrate and honor those who have survived breast cancer, and preserve the memory of those who lost their battle. In the past five years more than $350,000 has been raised, all of which go directly to patient services, including screening, education and patient navigation.
For more information, please contact Susannah Fox, Development Director, at 202-784-2718 or sfox@capitalbreastcare.org
On October 7, 2010, Capital Breast Care Center held its fourth annual signature fundraiser, the Gift of Life Breakfast. The benefit raised over $125,000. CBCC thanks the generous donors and partners who made this event the most successful to date. We are grateful to the following corporations for their support:
- Presenting Sponsors: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
- Butterfly Sponsor: Pepco Holdings
- Friend of CBCC: Comcast, Hologic, and Verizon
- Table Sponsors: Signature Breast Care; APCO WorldwideClark Construction; Chartered Health Plan and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP
Emceed by Angie Goff, the breakfast featured Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton as the keynote speaker and cupcakes provided as a generous donation by Georgetown Cupcake, for the third year in row! Raffle items were donated by IS Clinical, Sylenes, and the Grand Hyatt. DC Councilwomen Yvette Alexander, Mary Cheh, and Muriel Bowser presented an honorary Council Resolution to the Center, reaffirming the necessity of CBCC’s clinical, educational, and advocacy efforts to detect breast cancer early.
