My Fundraising Letter for the 2015 Immediate Impact Walk

Dear friends and family,

Greetings from sunny Seattle/Bellevue, WA! I hope you are all enjoying the early days of Summer.

You may have been wondering whether or not I'd be participating in the Immediate Impact Walk again this year.

The answer is: YES!!

We are changing it up this year, and I have exciting news share with you about the event.

The word of the year is: Simplify

Due to various circumstances, we are simplifying several aspects of the walk this year. The 2015 Immediate Impact Walk will be a one day, twenty mile walk. It will be held on Sunday,  September 27th. We will be walking from Fort Mason in San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge, through Sausalito and various points of Marin County, then over to Tiburon. We will have a celebratory lunch in Tiburon before catching the ferry across the San Francisco Bay back to San Francisco. In this scaled down format, we will not have route support crew, walkers will be self-sufficient on the route and we will have two planned grocery stops on the route to replenish our snacks/hydration. This is how we conduct our training walks in the months leading up to the event.

What does this all mean?
Less money spent on vehicles, food, lodging, permits, ceremonies and other large multi-day event-related expenses.
Participant registration fee will cover our lunch in Tiburon, ferry ticket and event shirt.

Best of all, we are excited to have enough funds from the prudent reserve from our previous events to cover the costs to produce this year's event. 
100% of all donations will be granted to our event beneficiaries!!!

Although the scope of this year's event may be simplified,  we are still as committed as ever to raise critical funds for our three local beneficiaries: The Breast Cancer Emergency Fund, Charlotte Maxwell Complimentary Clinic and Friend to Friend Fund - Partners in Care at UCSF Mt. Zion. Each of these wonderful organizations provide services and funds to low-income and under-served people living with breast cancer. You can learn more about our event and our beneficiaries here:https://www.classy.org/events/immediate-impact-breast-cancer-walk/e51304

Our Event Fundraising Goal is $75,000.

My personal Fundraising Goal is $7,500.

In the past three years of the Immediate Impact Walk, YOU have helped me raise over $46,000. Our event has given away almost $350,000 to our beneficiaries in our short three years.

I am writing to once again ask you for your support.  Please help me to raise my goal of $7,500. Any amount is appreciated, and no amount is too big or too small. Last year, I had donations as small as $5, and as large as $1,000! If you are unable to donate, that's okay, too – I appreciate your support in any way that you are able to give it.

Please follow the link below to visit my personal fundraising Web page and make a donation.
https://www.classy.org/trinachow

NEW: When you donate, there is an option for donors to cover the processing fee for their donation. Last year, we paid $4,000 is processing fees. If you are so inclined, please select this option when submitting your donation so that we can make sure that your total donation dollars will go towards our beneficiaries.

The event is just 3-1/2 months away. The new website for the event was just launched this week and the first training walk of the season is this weekend. I won't be able to make the first official training walk, but I did manage to join the group a couple of weeks ago for a pre-season 9-mile walk! I'll be doing a lot more training in Bellevue this year, and am already averaging about 40 miles a week.

This will be my sixth year of participating in breast cancer related fundraising walks. I am once again positive that with your support and encouragement, it'll be yet another amazing season and event!!

Thank you for your support and consideration.

With Gratitude,
Trina Chow

** Please ask your employer if they will double your donation with a matching gift. Last year the total of the Matching Gifts we received was almost 10% of the total donations.