COMMIT. YOU'LL FIGURE IT OUT.
TEAM FORZA-G - 70 RIDERS STRONG (AND COUNTING) FOR #PMC2024!
It's hard to believe, but Forza-G is gearing up for our 19th year as an official Pan-Mass Challenge team! 2023 was another great year for the PMC and Team Forza-G. Our team of 70 riders raised $806,000, bringing our team lifetime total to over $7.5 million. The PMC presented Dana-Farber Cancer Institiute with a check for $72 million for the year - a figure that represents 100% pass-through of all rider-raised funds. Since 1980 the PMC has now raised over $972 million and together we will pass the $1 Billion mark this spring. As individual riders and as a team, the PMC presents us with a wide variety of challenges (It is right there in the name, after all). From finding time to put in hours and miles of training, to stretching our fundraising efforts, to slogging through torrential downpours, there are always those things we need to pedal through and figure out. Once again, we are energized and committed to the cause - whatever it takes!
Thank you for supporting the riders of Team Forza-G and the PMC.
Wishing you health and peace!
PMC Team Forza-G
Here are two more ways you can help support the cause of cancer care and research - they will cost you nothing but a bit of your time...
1) Register As A PMC Virtual Rider - We invite you to join us on Team Forza-G as a Virtual Rider for the 2024 PMC. There is no registration fee and no minimum fundraising requirement. As a Virtual Rider, you will be able to create your own PMC Profile page where you can share your story of how cancer has impacted your life. You can create your own personal challenge - a bike ride, a hike, a run, etc. and set your own personal fundraising target.
To Register: https://www.pmc.org/virtual-riders
2) Donate Whole Blood or Platelets -
Platelets are the blood component serving as the body’s “bandages.” They allow blood to clot, helping wounds to heal. Cancer patients, especially leukemia, lymphoma, bone marrow transplant, or stem cell transplant patients, people who have sustained trauma, babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, and many other critically ill patients are at serious risk because their blood does not clot properly. They need transfusions of healthy platelets to control their bleeding. Platelets have an even shorter shelf life than whole blood—just five days. Volunteer donors ensure that there will always be a sufficient supply of platelets for patients in need.
https://www.brighamandwomens.org/patients-and-families/blood-donation/blood-donation-center
Forza-G officially formed as a PMC team back in 2006 with 4 riders raising a total of $25,512. Flashing forward to the 2024 PMC and our 19th year as a team, we are now 60 riders strong (and counting) and have raised over $7.5 million in team lifetime fundraising!
Forza-G translates from Italian to English as G-Force. The team was named as a tribute to my friend, Joe Giovinazzo and his Italian heritage. Joe passed away from T-Cell Lymphoma in August 2000. Given the difficulty of pronouncing or spelling Giovinazzo, Joe was always just Joe G. Originally I thought of Forza (Force) in the sense of both a team or squad and the fact that even way back then, our small group of four riders, like all PMC riders, seemed highly-driven and super-motivated in support of the PMC cause. Putting it together, we came up with Forza-G...and here we are.
L'Italo-Americano (The #1 Source For All Things Italian Since 1908) provides this insight into the deeper meaning of Forza [Word of the Day; Mar 1, 2019]:
FORZA means strength in English. It is particularly popular when we want to encourage someone to chin up and go on, to show our closeness to them in a moment of difficulty or, quite simply, to support and incite. In this, Italy's forza resembles quite closely the English expression come on, and it is used very much in the same way.
Yet, forza has something more, because it often comes accompanied: expressions such as forza e coraggio or farsi forza are ubiquitous and popular...
FORZA E CORRAGIO calls for gathering all your strength and courage to keep on going.
FARSI FORZA (create strength for yourself, it means literally) is often uttered when something bad or tragic happens, a bit like the English expression be strong or you must be strong.
One more example of the use of forza from L'Italo-Americano:
Devi farti forza e andare avanti translates into English as You've got to be strong and carry on
While no other members of Team Forza-G ever knew or even met my friend Joe, they each bring their own strength, determination and courage to this team and the PMC.
If you'd like to support Team Forza-G in the 2024 PMC, you can click on the e-Gift tab and use our Team account Number “TF0086”. You can also donate to an individual Forza-G rider by clicking on a rider and using their e-Gift ID number. To find out more about Team Forza-G and/or how you can get more involved, please email me at teamforzag@gmail.com. You can also join our Forza-G group on Facebook - just click on the link on the left side of this page.
Thank you again for your support!
Mille Grazie!
Matt Dillis & Team Forza-G
So Many Ways To Make A Difference...
Team Forza-G On Foxborough Cable TV: https://youtu.be/VYaWvbvuuF0
COMMIT. YOU'LL FIGURE IT OUT.
TEAM FORZA-G - 70 RIDERS STRONG (AND COUNTING) FOR #PMC2024!
It's hard to believe, but Forza-G is gearing up for our 19th year as an official Pan-Mass Challenge team! 2023 was another great year for the PMC and Team Forza-G. Our team of 70 riders raised $806,000, bringing our team lifetime total to over $7.5 million. The PMC presented Dana-Farber Cancer Institiute with a check for $72 million for the year - a figure that represents 100% pass-through of all rider-raised funds. Since 1980 the PMC has now raised over $972 million and together we will pass the $1 Billion mark this spring. As individual riders and as a team, the PMC presents us with a wide variety of challenges (It is right there in the name, after all). From finding time to put in hours and miles of training, to stretching our fundraising efforts, to slogging through torrential downpours, there are always those things we need to pedal through and figure out. Once again, we are energized and committed to the cause - whatever it takes!
Thank you for supporting the riders of Team Forza-G and the PMC.
Wishing you health and peace!
PMC Team Forza-G
Here are two more ways you can help support the cause of cancer care and research - they will cost you nothing but a bit of your time...
1) Register As A PMC Virtual Rider - We invite you to join us on Team Forza-G as a Virtual Rider for the 2024 PMC. There is no registration fee and no minimum fundraising requirement. As a Virtual Rider, you will be able to create your own PMC Profile page where you can share your story of how cancer has impacted your life. You can create your own personal challenge - a bike ride, a hike, a run, etc. and set your own personal fundraising target.
To Register: https://www.pmc.org/virtual-riders
2) Donate Whole Blood or Platelets -
Platelets are the blood component serving as the body’s “bandages.” They allow blood to clot, helping wounds to heal. Cancer patients, especially leukemia, lymphoma, bone marrow transplant, or stem cell transplant patients, people who have sustained trauma, babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, and many other critically ill patients are at serious risk because their blood does not clot properly. They need transfusions of healthy platelets to control their bleeding. Platelets have an even shorter shelf life than whole blood—just five days. Volunteer donors ensure that there will always be a sufficient supply of platelets for patients in need.
https://www.brighamandwomens.org/patients-and-families/blood-donation/blood-donation-center
Forza-G officially formed as a PMC team back in 2006 with 4 riders raising a total of $25,512. Flashing forward to the 2024 PMC and our 19th year as a team, we are now 60 riders strong (and counting) and have raised over $7.5 million in team lifetime fundraising!
Forza-G translates from Italian to English as G-Force. The team was named as a tribute to my friend, Joe Giovinazzo and his Italian heritage. Joe passed away from T-Cell Lymphoma in August 2000. Given the difficulty of pronouncing or spelling Giovinazzo, Joe was always just Joe G. Originally I thought of Forza (Force) in the sense of both a team or squad and the fact that even way back then, our small group of four riders, like all PMC riders, seemed highly-driven and super-motivated in support of the PMC cause. Putting it together, we came up with Forza-G...and here we are.
L'Italo-Americano (The #1 Source For All Things Italian Since 1908) provides this insight into the deeper meaning of Forza [Word of the Day; Mar 1, 2019]:
FORZA means strength in English. It is particularly popular when we want to encourage someone to chin up and go on, to show our closeness to them in a moment of difficulty or, quite simply, to support and incite. In this, Italy's forza resembles quite closely the English expression come on, and it is used very much in the same way.
Yet, forza has something more, because it often comes accompanied: expressions such as forza e coraggio or farsi forza are ubiquitous and popular...
FORZA E CORRAGIO calls for gathering all your strength and courage to keep on going.
FARSI FORZA (create strength for yourself, it means literally) is often uttered when something bad or tragic happens, a bit like the English expression be strong or you must be strong.
One more example of the use of forza from L'Italo-Americano:
Devi farti forza e andare avanti translates into English as You've got to be strong and carry on
While no other members of Team Forza-G ever knew or even met my friend Joe, they each bring their own strength, determination and courage to this team and the PMC.
If you'd like to support Team Forza-G in the 2024 PMC, you can click on the e-Gift tab and use our Team account Number “TF0086”. You can also donate to an individual Forza-G rider by clicking on a rider and using their e-Gift ID number. To find out more about Team Forza-G and/or how you can get more involved, please email me at teamforzag@gmail.com. You can also join our Forza-G group on Facebook - just click on the link on the left side of this page.
Thank you again for your support!
Mille Grazie!
Matt Dillis & Team Forza-G
So Many Ways To Make A Difference...
Team Forza-G On Foxborough Cable TV: https://youtu.be/VYaWvbvuuF0
| 2025 | $73,105.80 | PMC Team |
| 2024 | $814,952.21 | PMC Team |
| $29,839.97 | PMC Unpaved | |
| 2023 | $786,511.01 | PMC Team |
| $19,970.00 | PMC Unpaved | |
| 2022 | $791,556.04 | PMC Team |
| $3,000.00 | PMC Unpaved | |
| $0.00 | PMC Winter Cycle | |
| 2021 | $706,337.67 | PMC Team |
| $0.00 | PMC Winter Cycle | |
| 2020 | $474,351.66 | PMC Team |
| $0.00 | PMC Winter Cycle | |
| 2019 | $680,748.87 | PMC Team |
| 2018 | $626,860.12 | PMC Team |
| 2017 | $660,283.15 | PMC Team |
| 2016 | $536,418.41 | PMC Team |
| 2015 | $409,918.35 | PMC Team |
| 2014 | $370,243.91 | PMC Team |
| 2013 | $261,950.42 | PMC Team |
| 2012 | $308,501.15 | PMC Team |
| 2011 | $290,843.90 | PMC Team |
| 2010 | $202,110.54 | PMC Team |
| 2009 | $160,848.68 | PMC Team |
| 2008 | $151,531.00 | PMC Team |
| 2007 | $66,821.37 | PMC Team |
| 2006 | $25,512.00 | PMC Team |
