Making Strides Erie

Making Strides Erie Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is a non-competitive 5K walk to honor breast cancer survivors and remember those we lost.

This is the official American Cancer Society Making Strides Erie PA page. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is the largest network of breast cancer awareness events in the nation, uniting nearly 300 communities to finish the fight. Every Making Strides walk is an incredible and inspiring opportunity to honor those who have battled breast cancer, raise awareness about what we can do to

reduce our breast cancer risk, and raise money to help the American Cancer Society fight the disease with research, information and services, and access to care for women who need it. The American Cancer Society is a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem. We're fighting for a world with less cancer and more birthdays. State Fundraising Notices: cancer.org/aboutus/acspolicies/state-fundraising-notices

This is a page for supporters of the American Cancer Society, and we encourage open discussion and invite you to share your opinion on our issues. By participating on this page, you are agreeing to our commenting policy, outlined below. We encourage open discussion, which includes disagreement; and we will strive to present opposing viewpoints and keep this site as interesting, diverse and multi-sided as possible. However, it is first and foremost a page for our supporters, so taunting, harassing or otherwise attacking supporters in this community will not be tolerated, and you will be removed. Also, no supporter shall advise other supporters about medical care or attempt to influence their medical care decisions. We reserve the right to delete posts on our page containing any of the following elements:
- Profanity, racial and ethnic slurs
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- Promoting illegal or questionable activities
- Fundraising for other organizations

Repeated or flagrant violation or abuses of this policy may result in a user being removed from our page. We want to engage in a conversation with you and will do so to the extent resources allow, but not every message will receive a response. We appreciate your cooperation and support, and look forward to connecting with each of you, our loyal supporters!

This event is no longer occurring and we will be shutting down the page in a few weeks.  We would love to have you join ...
02/10/2024

This event is no longer occurring and we will be shutting down the page in a few weeks. We would love to have you join our new Relay For Life of Erie County Group. Just head over to www.facebook.com/groups/erierelay and be sure to click "join" to be sure you don't miss any of the fun!

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Erie - Important Update  We can’t thank you enough for your support of Making St...
04/19/2022

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Erie - Important Update

We can’t thank you enough for your support of Making Strides of Erie this past year and are sincerely grateful for our volunteers who helped to put the event together. With your help, we’re able to fund lifesaving research, provide patient services and offer support for patients and families affected by breast cancer.

At the end of every Making Strides season, we review all aspects of the event and look at the direction of our event moving forward. Currently, we do not have enough volunteers to fulfill important leadership positions to sufficiently support this event in Erie next year. With this in mind, a traditional Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event will not be held in Erie County in 2022.

We’re still committed to fighting cancer, and we know you are too. There are still multiple ways for you to be involved in fighting breast cancer with your American Cancer Society. The Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Buffalo and the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Greater Pittsburgh Area events are both set to take place on October 22nd and I am happy to assist you in transitioning to those events if you would like. Also, closer to home, we invite you to join us at Relay For Life of Erie County on June 25th at Liberty Park and Highmark Amphitheater. We know fundraising to fight breast cancer is important to you so we are offering that any Making Strides of Erie team that registers for the Relay For Life of Erie County event in 2022 will have the option to continue to put all their fundraising just to the breast cancer initiatives of your American Cancer Society or be a traditional Relay For Life team that has their fundraising support the fight of all cancers, the choice is yours.

Relay For Life events are a little different in length (11am – 5pm), your team can have a tent space to gather at and you can walk as little or as much as you would like while you are there. We have a survivor celebration lap after opening ceremonies followed by a luncheon for the survivor and one caregiver to attend, right at the event. We have fun games, activities and entertainment for all ages throughout the day, including fun onsite fundraisers that teams can run from their tent if they choose. And we take time to reflect on those we are walking in memory of, those currently battling we are walking in support of, and the survivors we walk in honor of each year. It truly is a special and supportive day for the community to come together in the fight to end cancer. We would love to see you, your teams and your supporters join us.

To learn more and ask any questions you may have I invite you to reach out to me directly at [email protected] or (814) 616-2035 where I can answer your questions or set up a time for us to chat.

I hope you will join us at one of our other opportunities as we come together as a community against cancer. The fight is not complete without you.

My sincerest gratitude,
Michelle Ducharme
ACS Staff Support

To learn more about Relay For Life of Erie County:
www.relayforlife.org/paerie
To learn more about Making Strides of Greater Pittsburgh
www.makingstrideswalk.org/greaterpittsburgh
To learn more about Making Strides of Buffalo
www.makingstrideswalk.org/buffalo

Congratulations and thank you to our newest Grand Club member to collect at least $1000 in donations, Diane Ducharme!
12/07/2021

Congratulations and thank you to our newest Grand Club member to collect at least $1000 in donations, Diane Ducharme!

Congratulations and thank you to our latest participants to collect at least $500 in donations, Angie Zielinski and Jenn...
12/07/2021

Congratulations and thank you to our latest participants to collect at least $500 in donations, Angie Zielinski and Jenn Brown!

It’s  ! What better time to fundraise for those impacted by breast cancer, like Darleen? Let’s join   to fund lifesaving...
11/30/2021

It’s ! What better time to fundraise for those impacted by breast cancer, like Darleen? Let’s join to fund lifesaving breast cancer research, advocacy, and services. www.makingstrideswalk.org/erie

Your donation on   tomorrow means hope for people like Darleen, a breast cancer survivor. About 281,550 women will be di...
11/29/2021

Your donation on tomorrow means hope for people like Darleen, a breast cancer survivor. About 281,550 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in 2021.Let's join for people impacted by breast cancer.

11/25/2021

This season of thanks, we are grateful for volunteers like YOU, who are the heart and hope of our lifesaving mission. Thank you! ❤

11/03/2021
11/01/2021

Caregivers, thanks for all that you do.

is a time to recognize and appreciate people who provide care to their loved ones. Find out what to expect if you become a caregiver for a person with cancer. Learn more at cancer.org/caregiverguide

Reminder all Christmas Cactus and holiday t-shirt orders are due to me by the end of the day.  Email: Michelle.Ducharme@...
10/27/2021

Reminder all Christmas Cactus and holiday t-shirt orders are due to me by the end of the day. Email: [email protected]
Thank you!

Congratulations and thank you to Pattie Stempka who has earned the Champion of Hope badge by collecting at least $1500 i...
10/25/2021

Congratulations and thank you to Pattie Stempka who has earned the Champion of Hope badge by collecting at least $1500 in donations!

Congratulations to Penny Johnson for joining Grand Club by collecting at least $1000 in donations.
10/25/2021

Congratulations to Penny Johnson for joining Grand Club by collecting at least $1000 in donations.

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