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A multi-location event sponsored by the American Cancer Society, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer raises money for breast cancer research and awareness via team walks. After one of its employees was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, Source4Teachers organized one such team to participate in Making Strides. As a personnel recruitment company for school districts, Source4Teachers is just one company involved in Making Strides.
Donations from the events go to breast cancer prevention and treatment, various programs for current breast cancer patients, breast cancer research and clinical improvements, and cancer advocacy and legislation. In addition donations from walk participants, the events receive corporate sponsorship from the likes of Chevrolet, H&M, and Kroger.
The events themselves consist of three- to five-mile walks in nearly 300 locations that take place every year sometime in October. Since Making Strides was established in 1993, more than 11 million walkers have raised $685 million dedicated to the fight against breast cancer.
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