Tag: breast cancer

  • Amy Foundation Ride and Stride combines two efforts to fight breast cancer

    Amy Foundation Ride and Stride combines two efforts to fight breast cancer

    The Amy Foundation Ride & Stride is scheduled for June 23 at South Brunswick High School, 750 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick. The objective is to raise funds to help uninsured and underinsured women in Central New Jersey receive potentially lifesaving breast cancer screening mammograms. The ride segment of Ride & Stride…

  • Amy Foundation Ride and Stride combines two efforts to fight breast cancer

    Amy Foundation Ride and Stride combines two efforts to fight breast cancer

    The Amy Foundation has merged its two signature fundraising events – The Bike Ride for Amy and The Walk for Diane – into a single opportunity to help fight breast cancer. The new event – The Amy Foundation Ride & Stride – is scheduled for June 23 at South Brunswick High School, 750 Ridge Road,…

  • Care to Walk celebrates 20 years of support for those affected by cancer

    Care to Walk celebrates 20 years of support for those affected by cancer

    NORTH BRUNSWICK – Twenty years of stories. Twenty years of memories. Twenty years of diagnoses, treatments and recovery. Twenty years of heartbreak. Twenty years of fundraising. Twenty years of hope for a cure. North Brunswick’s Care to Walk event marked its 20th year on Oct. 28, with hundreds of survivors, friends, family members, community members…

  • Encore Women’s Club craft fair to raise funds to fight breast cancer

    Encore Women’s Club craft fair to raise funds to fight breast cancer

    Encore Women’s Club Making Strides Against Breast Cancer will hold a holiday boutique from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 17 at Encore Monroe, in the clubhouse, 1 Brookside Dr., Monroe. There will be vendors, crafts, raffles and prizes. Shop for the holidays while raising funds to fight breast cancer.

  • Walk for Diane rescheduled for June 2019

    Walk for Diane rescheduled for June 2019

    The Amy Foundation has rescheduled the Walk for Diane, originally scheduled for Oct. 28 in Buccleuch Park in New Brunswick, in order to combine it with next year’s Bike Ride for Amy on June 23, 2019. The events raise money to help women who are uninsured receive mammograms. For more information, visit amyfoundation.org.

  • St. Bart’s to hold dinner to raise funds for breast cancer awareness

    St. Bart’s to hold dinner to raise funds for breast cancer awareness

    A dinner catered by Carrabba’s Italian Grill will raise money for breast cancer awareness. The hot buffet, dessert and beverages will be offered beginning at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at Saint Bartholomew Church Hall, 470 Ryders Lane, East Brunswick. The cost is $20 in advance or $25 per person at the door. For tickets, call…

  • Annual Walk for Diane marks decade of supporting early detection of breast cancer

    Annual Walk for Diane marks decade of supporting early detection of breast cancer

    The 10th Annual 5K (3.1 miles) Walk for Diane helps raise funds for women who are unable to afford procedures to detect breast cancer early, when it is most treatable, and receive potentially life-saving care. Sponsored by the North Brunswick-based Amy Feiman Behar Foundation for Cancer Prevention, Inc., the Walk for Diane starts at 9…

  • Making Strides breast cancer walk set for Oct. 7 in Monroe

    Making Strides breast cancer walk set for Oct. 7 in Monroe

    The Women’s Club of Encore and Stonebridge will hold a Making Strides Walk for breast cancer at 9 a.m. on Oct. 7, rain or shine, beginning at the Encore clubhouse, Brookside Drive, off Prospect Plains Road, Monroe. The walk is open to the public. Registration fee is $25, on the day of, and includes a…

  • Care to Walk for breast and ovarian cancer Oct. 28 in North Brunswick

    Care to Walk for breast and ovarian cancer Oct. 28 in North Brunswick

    The 20th annual North Brunswick Care to Walk/Run to honor those who have been affected by breast and ovarian cancer will be held from 8 a.m. to noon on Oct. 28 at the football field at North Brunswick Township High School, 98 Raider Road, North Brunswick. Check in begins at 8 a.m., followed by opening…