Hearts and Soles United Against Breast Cancer™
In Our Lifetime, 501(c)3 nonprofit status pending, is organized and managed by a small but hardworking, dedicated, fun-loving group of volunteers who have walked, crewed, mentored and cheered in multi-day breast cancer walks since 2000.
Through our core spirit and activities we strive to make positive, life-affirming changes, person to person. We cannot solve the huge problems ourselves but we can try to make huge impact in other individual's lives.
Our training walks, cheering, fundraising and participation in multi-day walk events inspire others to join our supportive and caring community. We extend camaraderie, deep humor and shared vision for a world without breast cancer In Our Lifetime.
In Our Lifetime's first project is Shoulder to Shoulder; a walker mentoring program which will enable disadvantaged women and men to sucessfully take part in a multi-day breast cancer fundriasing events.
The mission of In Out Lifeimts is to increase awareness about breast cancer; to solicit and receive contributions to support a cure for breast cancer; to distribute contributions to individuals, community organziations; and to assist and support individuals affected by breast cancer.
Board of Directors:
Linda Imlay, President & Founder of the Warming Hut Hotties
Andrea Goodman, Vice President & 9 time walker
Marcia Peterson, Secretarty & Treasurer & 6 time walker
Executive Commitee:
Nominations & formation, late Fall if 2008.
What is "Shoulder to Shoulder"?
In the many years that In Our Lifetime members have participated in multi-day breast cancer walks, we have noticed that most walkers are financially capable of supporting their own training needs for the event and have a sufficient network from which to successfully meet fundraising goals.
Shoulder to Shoulder is a mentoring program for new walkers, born from In Our Lifetime’s tradition of making a difference person to person. It is our goal to help disadvantaged women and men who have a reason to walk but who would not otherwise register for a multi-day breast cancer walk. Maybe because they do not have funds for running shoes or wicking clothes. Maybe because they need childcare in order to train. Maybe because they believe they don’t have a social or professional network that could support their fundraising goals. Maybe because as much as they would like to believe they could walk the long miles, they simply don’t know anyone who has.
Our walking team, the Warming Hut Hotties, has inspired walkers since 2003 over many miles and up many hills. Now we want to extend our help to others. We will inspire them. We will share our know-how about training and fundraising. We will offer financial help to meet some of the challenges a new walker faces.
In short, we will believe in people even before they believe in themselves.
Our inaugural year for the Shoulder to Shoulder Program is 2009. In January we will solicit applications. Then a selection committee will review the applications based upon need, the amount of program funds available, and the number of veteran walkers who wish to be mentors.
We have learned that when we stand Shoulder to Shoulder, we are stronger than when we stand alone.
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