Dear Friends:

My 2024 Pan Mass Challenge ( “PMC”) fundraising campaign for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (“DFCI”) in Boston is now underway. My family took off 2023 from the PMC to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Foundation as my daughter Taylor, a Hodgkins Lymphoma Survivor, was a Visionary of the Year contestant, and was the first runner-up in that campaign.
This will be my 19th year riding the PMC, and my family has raised close to $300,000 for this amazing and critical cause.

The PMC is the single largest athletic fundraising event in the world and this year will top $1 billion in total funds raised to support cancer research and treatment at the DFCI in Boston. 100% of each rider's funds raised goes to the DFCI as the expenses of the ride and running the foundation are funded by our registration fees and corporate grants

Twenty years ago, I was an avid basketball player who rarely cycled except to accompany my oldest daughter Taylor on her training wheels.

In 2005, that all changed when a close friend, Paul Gershkowitz, asked me to ride the PMC with him to honor his nephew Danny who had just died at 13 of leukemia. I bought my first road bike and completed my first PMC.

I’ve been a passionate PMC’er ever since and have recruited my wife KC, my 3 daughters Taylor Daniella and Francesca, and Taylor’s fiance Matt, and Daniella’s boyfriend, Nick into the PMC family. Taylor and Dani both began riding the full PMC at age 16. The PMC is the largest source of funding for the DFCI’s cutting edge research, drug development, training, and treatment, making it one of the leading cancer hospitals in the world.

In 2018, the PMC and the DFCI took on a greater significance for my family as Taylor, at 22, was diagnosed with late-stage III Hodgkin’s Lymphoma- that required 6 months of rigorous Chemo, months of radiation, immunotherapy, and finally a stem cell transplant in May/June 2020 as the Pandemic raged on. Taylor is now in full remission.

This year, I'll be both a volunteer BBQ grill master flipping my share of the 10,000 burgers consumed by PMC'ers, and I'll be cycling in a PMC gravel (think dirt roads) ride called Unpaved in the Berkshires.

My fundraising will be split between Team 3G, a “Heavy Hitter” Team which funds non-smoker lung cancer and thoracic surgery, and Team Brainstorms, which funds the treatment of pediatric brain cancer.

Please help me, my PMC teams, and my family of PMC’ers, to beat cancer.

For 2022, my very ambitious fundraising goal is $40,000, and I know that with your help, I can achieve this goal.

You can click on the link below to donate, Venmo me at @Chinitzlawllc, or send me a check payable to the “PMC” by pony express to the address below.

The Payment Link:

https://profile.pmc.org/MC0298

For paper checks payable to “PMC”

Mike Chinitz

63 Dartmouth Street, Newton, MA 02465

Below are some links to clips about Taylor and her fight against cancer, and some PMC photos,

Thank you, and God Bless.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2019/08/01/pan-mass-challenge-celebrates-40-years

https://boston.cbslocal.com/video/4130460-living-proof-pmc-rider-ready-to-bike-again-after-cancer-treatments/

https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/08/01/pan-mass-challenge-rider-who-battled-cancer-will-be-back-riding-100-miles-this-week/amp/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdHpnOgths

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/08/07/metro/pan-mass-challenge-brings-throngs-cyclists-together-fight-cancer/