Men With Heart

Fred’s Cancer Walk Page

Dear Family and Friends;

This May, I will be embarking on my 7th Avon Walk for Breast Cancer! I’ll be walking in Boston on May19th and 20th. So far, I’ve completed six Avon Walks. Each one of them has been an amazing experience. I have found that it doesn’t matter what city I walk, I always find many people (young and old) walking for the same cause! The names and faces may be slightly different, but we’re all there for the same reason… Walking to Find a Cure for Breast Cancer!!!

Once again, I’m asking for your support in my efforts to reach my personal goal of $3,000. I have had such great support from many friends and family. I feel that I am walking for each of you while I’m stepping through the 39.3 miles. I have come to know so many people that either have this awful disease or they know somebody that does. And through this walk, strangers from all walks of life have been brought together for the same reason… to find a cure!

In the past six years, I’ve been able to raise $15,660 for the fight against Breast Cancer. In the big picture, that may not seem like a lot, but when you combine the efforts of 2300 people (the number that walked in Boston last year), individual fundraising adds up very quickly! Last year’s Boston walk raised $5.2M for the fight. There were eight other Avon Walks throughout the country that raised a total of $46 million!!! Here is how some of the 2011 dollars were distributed as grants to local businesses/agencies:

• $1,500,000 – Massachusetts General Hospital
• 300,000 – Brigham & Women’s Hospital
• 300,000 – University of Massachusetts – Amherst
• 175,000 – Silent Spring Institute
• 175,000 – Community Servings
• 250,000 – LifeSpan Foundation
• 250,000 – Boston Medical Center
• 125,000 – Cambridge Health Alliance
• 62,000 – Central Maine Medical Center

For more information on all the walks for 2011, you can go to:

www.avonwalk.org/cause/how-the-money-is-spent.html#bo

I’m challenging you to help support this very worthwhile cause by supporting me. My challenge here, is two-fold: The first is to raise at least $1,800 to be allowed to walk; The second is to endure the 39.3 mile walk over two days! For one weekend in May, I will walk 39.3 miles with thousands of other men and women to help find that cure for breast cancer. We will sleep in tents, take showers in trucks, walk a marathon one day and a half marathon the next. The net proceeds from this event (and others across America) will support non-profit breast health programs, as well as medical research to help find a cure for breast cancer so that our mothers, wives, daughters and friends will have a fighting chance!

This year, over 180,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer (one every three minutes)!!!

Over 40,000 will die.

That’s why I’m walking.

• To do something big.
• To be a part of something special, and something very, very important.

I hope that you’ll be a partner with me in this effort.

Each walker must commit to raising at least $1800. Maybe I’m crazy—but if this is what it takes to find a cure, and help our many friends and family who have been affected by this terrible disease—I’ll be there. Ever since my first Avon walk in 2006, I have joined a group of men called: Men with Heart. This amazing group of guys walk for the same reasons as everybody else. They just put a lot more energy into it. You can read about them at: www.menwithheart.org.

I hope that you will consider making a fully tax-deductible donation to help me meet my goal. You can make a donation on-line at my Men With Heart page at: www.menwithheart.org/member-directory/fredfournier. You can make a single donation or spread your donation over several months. If you’re not comfortable making online donations, I can send you a form that you will need to fill out and send back to me. Just let me know and I will get it to you. All donations made to the “Men With Heart” organization will support the Avon Breast Cancer Foundation.

In the time it has taken you to read this letter, another woman has been diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. Please help us change that statistic. For more information, you can visit the Avon Website at: www.avonwalk.org.

Thank you.

Fred Fournier

P.S., Please pass this on to any family and friends so that they may be able to play a part in finding a cure!

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Men With Heart, A Non-Profit Corporation
733 Turnpike Street, #200
North Andover, MA 01845

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• Your name and address (if not already on the check)
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