Anna Kournikova plays in Save The Girls T.
Anna Kournikova sports a Save The Girls T-shirt as she warms up for her match against the Boston Lobsters at the Ferncroft Country Club in Danvers, MA. All proceeds from the sale of the Save The Girls T’s and Caps benefit the ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund!
Anna Kournikova in a Save The Girls T.
These adorable T-shirts and Caps have been designed by Didi Fisher Weinreb for the exclusive benefit of the ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund!
Didi is an avid Tennis Player, USPTA Certified Teaching Professional, The River’s School Girls Varsity Tennis Coach and Tennis Director at Wayland Swim and Tennis Club. Didi played junior tennis in South Florida and continues to compete nationally as an adult. Didi is presently going through treatment and wanted a way to give back. She is donating all proceeds from the sale of these funky T’s and Caps to our fund so we can cure breast cancer! $20/T-shirt, $20/Cap.
Scoop ‘em up!
To place an order, contact Didi at didiweinreb@gmail.com.
It’s official! Save the date of Tuesday, October 26, 2010 for the 15th Annual ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund benefit with celebrity Emcee and Auctioneer, Susan Wornick of WCVB-TV! In addition to a very entertaining evening, you can take home some fabulous items, while making a contribution to breast cancer research that just may save the life of someone you love!
William Leisman, Dr. Kenneth K. Tanabe, Dr. Michelle Gadd at the 2009 ESSCO-MGH Beneift
Stay tuned for more info!
Join us Tuesday, October 27th beginning at 6:00 p.m. for the 14th Annual Cards For A Cure benefit!
Cards For A Cure is a fun filled Casino Night complete with gaming tables, delicious food, valuable prizes and a whole lot more. Visit the silent auction tables where you can scoop up theater tickets, restaurant gift certificates, hotel packages, and bobbles galore. Or bid on exciting live auction items from Celebrity Auctioneer Susan Wornick of WCVB-TV. She’ll be auctioning one-of-kind items like a ride in a restored B-17 Bomber, a shoe-shopping spree at Greta Luxe, fabulous Celtics floor seats where you’ll sit with the owners, VIP Patriots tickets and much more.
Tickets are $100 each and 100% of the money raised goes directly to vital breast cancer research at the Massachusetts General Hospital. That’s right. Every penny of your donation goes directly to research!
Call 1-800-635-3899 to get your Cards For A Cure tickets today!
All PSAs courtesy of 92.5 The River!
Stay tuned to our favorite radio station, 92.5 The River, for information about the 14th annual Cards For A Cure benefit, to be held on Tuesday, October 27th at the Pine Brook Country Club in Weston, MA. Thanks to the generous efforts of A.J. and Cindy and the entire 92.5 team, the ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund is getting lots of FREE airplay!
We love Susan Wornick! Every year, without fail, she jumps on the ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund bandwagon and donates her time and undeniable personality to help us raise money for breast cancer research! This year is no exception. She’ll be at our Casino Night on Tuesday, October 27th at the Pine Brook Country Club in Weston, MA, rolling dice and raising money! Stay tuned for more details! We’re on the prowl for fabulous, fun and fashionable auction items!
What a fabulous night! In addition to a wonderfully fun night of gaming, our guests enjoyed delicious food, terrific conversation and the chance to bid on exciting auction items. And best of all, 100% of the $112,000 raised will go directly to cutting-edge breast cancer research at the Massachusetts General Hospital! We’ve grown to over $3.2 million and continue to invest in the top breast cancer researchers. A truly promising investment!
William Leisman, III and Susan Wornick at the ESSCO-MGH Benefit
The ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund gives everyone something to smile about:
ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Fund Committee Member Ellen Slater with her husband Ken during the 2006 beneift
Save the date of Thursday, October 23, 2008 for our 13th annual ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund benefit! The event will be held at the Pine Brook Country Club in Weston, MA, and will feature gaming tables, a Texas Hold’em Tournament, Live and Silent Auction, delicious food & beverages, and Emcee Susan Wornick of WCVB-TV. Tickets to the event are $100 and can be purchased by calling 800-635-3899 ext. 201. Don’t miss this wonderful event! 100% of every penny raised goes directly to cutting-edge research at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA!
Ken Tanabe, Albert Cohen, Susan Wornick and Bill Leisman at the 2006 annual benefit.
The ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund was established in 1994 by my father, Albert Cohen, shortly after my then-33-year-old sister, Lynn, was diagnosed with breast cancer. At the time, we were all stunned and frightened. She was the tofu-eating, veggie-steaming sister who exercised daily, and couldn’t have been healthier.
While my mother, sister and I rallied around Lynn, taking turns caring for my nephew and going to chemotherapy and radiation appointments with her, my father got to work finding a cure. He found promising research at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston and decided it represented the best chance for a cure in our lifetime. I say “our” because my father wasn’t so concerned about a cure during his lifetime, but he was beside himself at the thought that a cure might not be found in ours.
My father, then CEO of Electronic Space Systems Corporation (ESSCO), met with researchers and physicians at the MGH, and learned that promising research is often not funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), because of its risky and unproven nature. However, it is precisely this innovative research that may eventually reveal a cure, if given the opportunity to flourish. So my father established the ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research fund as an endowment fund for this type of research, and initialized it with $25,000. He had one caveat: every single penny raised had to go directly to breast cancer research at the MGH. No money could be used for administrative purposes. To that end, our small band of all-volunteer worker bees organizes an annual benefit in October that consistently raises over $100,000. And, true to my father’s pledge, every single penny goes directly to breast cancer research at the MGH.
Today, our fund has grown to $3.2 million and our small little organization has grown into a hard-working committee of 24 active, dedicated and wonderfully warm members who are committed to curing breast cancer in our lifetime. We support vital and very promising breast cancer research under the direction of the phenomenal Dr. Kenneth K. Tanabe, Chief of Surgical Oncology at the MGH. We are funding innovative microchip technology to capture extremely rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in cancer patients. In the future, when the CTC chip becomes clinically available, a blood sample will be enough to detect cancer cells long before a tumor recurs! The work is so promising, it was recently reported in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (July 2, 2008). But our research funding doesn’t stop there. All of the work we fund has not only garnered national attention and brought to light research that was previously considered too “risky” for the likes of NIH, but is now receiving NIH grants as well as funds from much larger charitable organizations.
Sadly, my father passed away on November 25, 2006, and did not live to see a cure for breast cancer. Therefore, it’s up to us to carry on his legacy making his pledge our goal. Recently, the ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund was honored as one of the one hundred extraordinary people and groups who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to cancer care and research. Although my father could not be with us to witness this fabulous tribute, we were overwhelmingly proud to be able to share this honor with such a remarkable group of individuals and organizations.
We hope that when you weigh your charitable contribution dollars, you will consider funding the ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund and putting your hard-earned dollars to work for a cure. We are always eager to talk with individuals and organizations interested in working with us to fundraise on behalf of the fund. My company, Babe Ease - www.cleanshopper.com, will be donating $1.00 from the sale of every pink gingham Clean Shopper to the fund, in addition to 5% of October’s profits.
Here are some examples of other fundraising activities held on our behalf:
Wine Tasting by Colonial Spirits of Stow, MA (total donation over 7 years $15,500) Holiday Shopping Nights by Lotti Ta-Dah of Hudson, MA, (total donation over three years $7,000) Golf Tournament by the Boston Estate Planning Council & Society of Financial Service Professionals (total donated over three years $6,200), Sharon Country Club Golf Tournament (1st year raised over $6600), Friends of Reading Tennis (1st tournament raised over $3500), Bird Houses for Breast Cancer created and sold by my sons (total donation over four years $785) Dress Down Day at Ernst & Young (total donated over six years $5,800).
You can support this vital research too. Simply click the link below, and donate directly to our fund via the Massachusetts General Hospital donor site, or download the brochure below and send it to:
The ESSCO-MGH Breast Cancer Research Fund
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