October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month .
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an annual international health campaign organized by major breast cancer charities every October to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention and cure. The campaign also offers information and support to those affected by breast cancer.
In 1993 Evelyn Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of the EstƩe Lauder Companies founded The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and established the Pink Ribbon as its symbol.
The NYC Annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer is October 16-17
The Avon Walk New York begins near the riverside at Hudson River Park’s Pier 84, next to the USS Intrepid,Saturday's route takes you up the river to the Upper West Side, then down to Greenwich Village, and SoHo. We'll head over the Brooklyn Bridge and stop by DUMBO before heading back into Manhattan by crossing the Manhattan Bridge. You'll walk through Chinatown, the Lower East Side and into the Upper East Side before to our Wellness Village and overnight campsite at Randall's Island - home of Icahn stadium and world famous tennis!
For more information or to donate :http://www.avonwalk.org/
Here are other ways you can donate :
Wacoal-America Fight for the Cure
For every Awareness or Embrace lace bra sold, Wacoal will donate $2 to Susan G. Komen for cure.
https://www.wacoal-america.com:443/
B.R. Guest restaurants will be offering special pink desserts during the month of October.
75 % of all proceeds raised will be donated to the Breast Cancer Treatment Task Force. Each dessert will be $10 served at lunch and dinner.
The participating restaurants
Dessert: Pink Velvet Cake with Raspberry-Hibiscus Ice Cream.
Dessert: Bon Bons and Pink Velvet and Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream with Dark Choc Dipping Sauce. Atlantic Grill Lincoln Center Primehouse New York
Blue Fin
Blue Fin
Dessert: White Chocolate Raspberry CrĆØme Brulee served with Pink Ribbon Cookies. Atlantic Grill Ocean Grill Isabella’s Blue Water Grill
Dessert: Pink Velvet Cupcakes with a Raspberry Jam center and Cream Cheese icing. Wildwood BBQ Bill’s Bar & Burger
Lets make a DIFFERENCE!
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