Fundraising

Breast cancer fundraisers take up the worthy cause to combat something that resulted in the death in 2003, according to the Center Disease Control and Prevention, of over 41,000 women. Every day, someone's mother, daughter, wife or aunt prematurely dies from cancer, but their lives do not have to be in vain. Newer, better cancer medications and therapies have to be funded, but celebrity breast cancer fundraising is not the only means by which money can be raised.

We can each do our part in the fundraising effort for the breast cancer patient by going about our regular consumerist ways. By purchasing breast cancer awareness fundraising products, we all can speed along the cancer research that could lead to that final miracle cure. Bracelets, pendants, bags, pens and pink jewelry pin ribbons can all be purchased in the name of better medicine needed to combat breast cancer. A pink, lined with Swarovski crystals cell phone is one of the unique items offered by Shades of Fun. They also sell novelty shades in the shape of a pink flamingo for fundraising lots of money for breast cancer research.

Better yet, we all could participate in fundraising for cancer research in other ways besides fundraiser shopping. Some of Breakthrough's, a campaign for breast cancer research, breast cancer fundraiser tips and ideas include:

• Ask local businesses if they would like to contribute money to the cause of breast cancer research in exchange for free advertisement.
  
• Set a fundraising goal
  
• Advertise the fundraising effort in the local paper or on a radio station.
  
• Fundraise online
  

It is a good idea that if a person decides to hold their own fundraising event, that they give explicit written explanation of how the money is going to be distributed. Whether it is going directly to aid someone in the payment of bills due to their cancer treatment, or if it is going to go towards the broader effort of ending cancer, the fundraiser's creator should keep everyone informed. And everyone who contributes to a cause, cancer or otherwise, should take care that they research and find out exactly where their donated funds are going.

A good participant in a fundraiser or good contibutor to one is informed and does whatever necessary to ensure that others are informed about the cause and its financial aspect. A fundraising effort for breast cancer can be quite successful if done in an informed, organized way to get all of us closer to a cure to something that no doubt affects all of us in some way at least once in a lifetime.