Jon Siegel, 15 Major Hale Dr., Framingham, MA 01701
jondsiegel@gmail.com
TO DONATE, go to: http://www.pmc.org/profile/JS0015
40 YEARS, 1 BILLION DOLLARS!!
1984, 40 years ago, I was 26. I asked my brother to join me in a bicycling fundraiser (Pan Mass Challenge/PMC) to fight cancer. We joined a few hundred riders from Sturbridge to Ptown in MA, and the event raised about $100K. 40 years later we’re both still riding in this event which last year raised $72M with over 6K riders. And this year’s fundraising to date has brought the total raised by the PMC for Dana Farber Cancer Institute since inception in 1980 to over $1B!
Will you please help me celebrate both of these milestones (40 years riding/fundraising and $1B raised) with a generous donation to my fundraising ride this year, supporting the incredible accomplishments of Dana Farber and the PMC? The event will be held in August and this year’s goal is to bring in $75M. PMC’s donations to Dana Farber enable cutting edge research and the roll-out of clinical trials and treatments much faster than would be possible with traditional government funding and its associated restrictions. And the PMC provides over 60% of the Jimmy Fund’s (fundraising arm of Dana Farber) annual revenue.
Please see: A Thank You from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute President & CEO Laurie Glimcher
My Team Huckleberry: My “Team Huckleberry” was formed in 1997 and has been “going the extra mile” by adding a third day to the two-day, 192-mile PMC ever since. Our 3-day, 300-mile effort consists of cycling from the NY State border across all of Massachusetts to the tip of Cape Cod. Our goal is to motivate our sponsors to go the extra mile too and kick in a little extra to this effort.
Your donation is the what makes my ride meaningful, and you should know that 100% of all rider-raised funds go directly to cancer research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
If you can give, please support the PMC’s mission, and my personal commitment to raise over $12,000. I'm hoping that this year we can together help the PMC meet its 2024 fundraising goal. But whether or not you can give this year, please show your support with words of encouragement or gestures of support when you see a PMC rider on the road!
Thank you for bringing us closer by the mile to a world without cancer. With my riding and your financial support, let's crush this beast! Cancer started the fight; please help finish it!
Best Regards,
Jon
Dedications: This year I’m dedicating my 40th PMC (https://www.pmc.org/about) in honor of:
- A best friend and Team Huckleberry captain Dave who is managing a recurrence of melanoma,
- Teammate Tim, managing prostate cancer,
- Our team sag Rick who is wrestling with prostate cancer,
- My cousins Diane and Candy, who both recently completed treatment for breast cancer,
- My cousin Robert who is monitoring possible bladder cancer,
- My friend Rod (recently successfully treated for stomach cancer, and will have lifetime treatment),
- My sweet canine daughter Calli who was recently diagnosed with melanoma (progress with human treatment helps with developing animal treatments)
- And in memory of friend Anna McKenna who recently died of colon cancer.
- And I ride in honor of my wife who is a 26-year survivor,
- In memory and honor of too many of my family members and friends who have battled and survived or succumbed to cancer in the past.
DONATIONS may be sent until the end of October either online at: http://www.pmc.org/profile/JS0015, or by check made out to “PMC-Jimmy Fund. Or go to www.pmc.org, click “Donate” and use my eGift ID of JS0015.
Everyone giving at least $50 will be entered in a honey raffle, with prizes of (4) 8oz jars or (2) 16oz jars of my Framingham-local honey, from my own beehives – “Backyard Bees Apiary”)
