Team Tiara

Many thanks to Jennifer Reyna for spending her morning with Team Tiara!

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If you saw our story on Channel 2 and want to be a part of helping Team Tiara fight breast cancer, you’ve come to the right place! 

This year marks the 5th year Team Tiara will be walking 60 miles in the Breast Cancer 3-Day.  To date, we have raised over $270,000 for breast cancer research and education.  Our goal for 2010 is to have 100 walkers on our team, and to raise $250,000. That would put us soundly past the $500,000 mark for our five years on the walk.

To Donate a Quilt to our Quilts for a Cure Campaign — Our Simply Pink Quilt Calendar and auction will raise a substantial amount of money to be applied to research, education and awareness campaigns.  If you’re a quilter, please read the next post to find out how you can be a part of this grassroots effort to stop breast cancer in its tracks.

To Walk with Team Tiara – This year our goal is to have 100 walkers on our team.  With that many walkers, we will raise at least $250,000.  Wouldn’t that be cool?  As a walker, you will be introduced to many “firsts.”  You’ll sleep in a pink tent, take showers in a converted semi trailer, dine on peanut butter and jelly graham cracker sandwiches and become an expert on blister care.  You will laugh at the kind of jokes only breast cancer survivors can come up with.  You’ll cry over people’s stories and share your own.  And in the process you’ll help raise millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education.  You can check out the Team Tiara website at www.the3day.org/goto/teamtiara.  Just click “Register to Join Team.”

To Sponsor Team Tiara – Without you, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do.  The money you donate goes directly to research, education, awareness and services….  You can donate online at www.the3day.org/goto/teamtiara.   Just click on the name of any team member, and follow the directions for donating.  You can donate by phone – just call 1-800-996-3329.  Ask the 3-Day staff member to apply your donation to any Team Tiara team member.  And of course, all donations are tax-deductible.

Corporate Sponsorships Needed — To walk, each team member is required to raise $2300.  Please consider helping us reach that mark and our $250,000 goal.  This is Promotional Fundraising at its finest!  We’ll promote your business while working to find a CURE!

Shop with our Sponsors — Check out our Sponsors link to see which local businesses are helping us find a CURE!

For more information on ways you can help Team Tiara fight for a CURE, please contact D’Lyn Biggs, Team Tiara Captain, dlyn@teamtiara.net

Thank you for your support!

Hello Friends!

Please take a second to forward this to any quilters who you know.

We are so excited about our Quilts for a Cure project! Team Tiara is currently collecting pink quilts, and we need your help!

The quilts do not have to be a pink ribbon or breast cancer-related pattern — simply pink. They can be any size — from miniature on up to King-size.  They can be traditional, modern, crazy — you name it.  You can be an accomplished quilter or a beginner.   We simply need quilts that are as individual and different as the women and men who face breast cancer.

We plan to use many of the quilts we receive in a Quilts Calendar ready for sale before Mother’s Day.  The calendar will run May 2010 – December 2011.  Each “Artist’s Story” will be highlighted in the calendar.  You may be a survivor.  You may have lost a friend or family member to this disease.  You may just feel moved to help find a CURE.  Whatever your connection, we’d love to know about that.  If the quilt is submitted by a quilting circle, we need the names of everyone who worked on the quilt — as well as background on the circle. 

We hope to display several of the quilts in quilt shops around the area — along with information about breast cancer and Team Tiara’s participation in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure.  We will also be doing a road show this summer to promote the quilts and the calendar. 

All of the quilts will be auctioned online during the month of October — National Breast Cancer Awareness month. 

As you can see, this calendar will offer Team Tiara two opportunities for fundraising — ongoing sales of our calendars, as well as the online auction in October.  We foresee this being a significant source of fundraising dollars for breast cancer research.

In addition to the fundraising angle, this program gives us an excellent opportunity to not just raise awareness about breast cancer, but to serve as a call to action of sorts — encouraging people to step up and take a role in the fight against this disease — whether as a walker or as a sponsor.

If you are interested in helping with this project, you can contact me at dlyn@teamtiara.net or by phone at 281-256-8067.  . 

Thank you for helping us find a CURE.

I walk for my girls.

D’Lyn Biggs

Team Tiara Captain 2006-2010

Update!  The Ebay auction closed yesterday, with the gloves bringing a total of $172!!!  Whoo-Hoo!  Then, the Jets had a fantastic game last night!  Thank you to everyone who bid on the gloves.  We appreciate your support!

Check it out!

Last October, when saw all the NFL players in their ultra-cool pink gloves & shoes, I asked Biggsy how to get a pair for us to auction off.  With the help of Jay Lamy and Larry Izzo, who both played football with Biggs at Rice, we ended up with TWO Pair!  Jay and Larry, you Rock!

Check these out on Ebay. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330394754618&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330394756050&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

100% of the purchase price will go to the Breast Cancer 3-Day!