This year will mark my 22nd PMC ride! Not sure where the time has gone, but I am sure that raising money for Dana Farber Cancer Institute is still important. Having lost both my parents to cancer, and watching my daughter still deal with the repercussions of her battle with cancer I look to a future where other families don’t have to feel this same pain. I am continually referring a friend or a friend’s friend to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute for help with their cancer diagnosis. It seems never-ending, and another reason to continue riding for such an important cause.
As we all have read, NIH grants that fund science are being cut. Those funds are at work in the labs and clinics in our own Boston Longwood medical area and losing these funds and the scientists who use them means stalling progress and slowing the momentum in our fight against cancer. This is not about politics…it is personal because those funds decrease the progress that can be made to cure and fight cancer. And that affects all of us! The stakes to raise money for DFCI have become even more critical.
So yes, we ride to raise money and we ride to protect progress. We ride to defend hope. And we ride to ensure that nothing—and no one—stands in the way of our funding the cures for cancer
You have been incredibly generous to the DFCI in honor of my Mom, Dad and Hannah for these past 22 years. I am asking that you continue to help keep our dreams alive; to eliminate this disease and until then, to give those who are fighting cancer the same opportunity my daughter, my Dad, my Mom and my friends had: to continue to live their lives with spirit, vitality and meaning! Your dollars are the resources that will really help make cancer a disease of the past!!
The easiest way to contribute to my ride is to simply enter the amount of your donation to the right and then click on the make an e-gift link and use your credit card, debit card or even apple pay. However, if you prefer, you may send a check made out to PMC to:
Karen Linde Packman
240 Country Drive
Weston, MA 02493
Thank you for all that you have done!!
This year will mark my 22nd PMC ride! Not sure where the time has gone, but I am sure that raising money for Dana Farber Cancer Institute is still important. Having lost both my parents to cancer, and watching my daughter still deal with the repercussions of her battle with cancer I look to a future where other families don’t have to feel this same pain. I am continually referring a friend or a friend’s friend to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute for help with their cancer diagnosis. It seems never-ending, and another reason to continue riding for such an important cause.
As we all have read, NIH grants that fund science are being cut. Those funds are at work in the labs and clinics in our own Boston Longwood medical area and losing these funds and the scientists who use them means stalling progress and slowing the momentum in our fight against cancer. This is not about politics…it is personal because those funds decrease the progress that can be made to cure and fight cancer. And that affects all of us! The stakes to raise money for DFCI have become even more critical.
So yes, we ride to raise money and we ride to protect progress. We ride to defend hope. And we ride to ensure that nothing—and no one—stands in the way of our funding the cures for cancer
You have been incredibly generous to the DFCI in honor of my Mom, Dad and Hannah for these past 22 years. I am asking that you continue to help keep our dreams alive; to eliminate this disease and until then, to give those who are fighting cancer the same opportunity my daughter, my Dad, my Mom and my friends had: to continue to live their lives with spirit, vitality and meaning! Your dollars are the resources that will really help make cancer a disease of the past!!
The easiest way to contribute to my ride is to simply enter the amount of your donation to the right and then click on the make an e-gift link and use your credit card, debit card or even apple pay. However, if you prefer, you may send a check made out to PMC to:
Karen Linde Packman
240 Country Drive
Weston, MA 02493
Thank you for all that you have done!!
I have chosen to keep all of my donors' information confidential; therefore it is not displayed on my PMC public donor list.
