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Message from the Volunteer Advisory Council
It is that time again: PanCAN PurpleStride season is upon us! Is everyone ready to wear their purple clothes for our big day?
Why is PurpleStride so important to our mission? This event is our biggest fundraiser. Your participation and fundraising keep PanCAN’s vital programs running so patients and their families don’t have to navigate this journey on their own.
We are a little under two months from PurpleStride. If you haven’t created your team, it is time to get that started. It’s easy to do. All you must do is go to www.purplestride.org and find your local city, town or state, click on that and create your team.
Now comes the important part – you need to contact your family, friends, co-workers, anyone you know and ask them to donate to your team. Explain to them why you are seeking donations for this disease. There are many ways to contact them. Calling and emailing your network of family and friends is one way. Using your social media pages and PurpleStride Dashboard are other ways to ask them. These are just some of the ways to recruit team members and donations for your team.
Now it is your turn to recruit your team members and raise some funds for the mission. Go out to your community and spread the word of what is needed to grow the survival rate to 20% by 2030. Explain to them that we need to raise money for critical research for this deadly cancer. We need everyone to go out and reach as many people as possible to help us.
Please join us on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at your local PurpleStride event. Bring a friend or even 10 of them. Enjoy the day and feel great that you are helping to beat pancreatic cancer. Thank you from all of us at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network for all that you are doing for our cause.
Why is PurpleStride so important to our mission? This event is our biggest fundraiser. Your participation and fundraising keep PanCAN’s vital programs running so patients and their families don’t have to navigate this journey on their own.
We are a little under two months from PurpleStride. If you haven’t created your team, it is time to get that started. It’s easy to do. All you must do is go to www.purplestride.org and find your local city, town or state, click on that and create your team.
Now comes the important part – you need to contact your family, friends, co-workers, anyone you know and ask them to donate to your team. Explain to them why you are seeking donations for this disease. There are many ways to contact them. Calling and emailing your network of family and friends is one way. Using your social media pages and PurpleStride Dashboard are other ways to ask them. These are just some of the ways to recruit team members and donations for your team.
Now it is your turn to recruit your team members and raise some funds for the mission. Go out to your community and spread the word of what is needed to grow the survival rate to 20% by 2030. Explain to them that we need to raise money for critical research for this deadly cancer. We need everyone to go out and reach as many people as possible to help us.
Please join us on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at your local PurpleStride event. Bring a friend or even 10 of them. Enjoy the day and feel great that you are helping to beat pancreatic cancer. Thank you from all of us at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network for all that you are doing for our cause.
-Submitted by Bruce Platt
