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Team Tasha, a new local nonprofit event, kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness month by raising funds for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Created to support Tasha Vatistas, the co-owner of local luxury real estate firm Launch Real Estate, according to a press release, the event allows participants to get involved from a distance during COVID-19.
Participants raise funds by doing anything sports related, in person or virtually, on or before the weekend of Oct. 3, which is the first weekend of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Fundraising can range from axe throwing competitions, an athlete running the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim in one day, soccer ball juggling to Peloton riding.
Team Tasha had an original fundraising goal of $50,000, but after surpassing that target in its first two weeks, increased its goal to $100,000.
The co-owner of Launch Real Estate was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012 and then with triple-negative breast cancer in 2016, the release said.
Following a second remission, the aggressive form of metastatic breast cancer has returned in as stage four, the release detailed.
She and her co-owner husband, John, along with the Launch Real Estate team, formed Team Tasha to raise funds for BCRF that is designated for triple-negative breast cancer research.
“As a wife and mother of four children, when I was first diagnosed I was angry with the world and with the time I would not have with my family,” said Ms. Vatistas in a prepared statement.
“But as I’ve grown accustomed to my diagnosis, I need to know that I can be part of making those who will be diagnosed in the future, and as importantly their families, have hope and, at the very least, more time to share together.”
Prominent community members including sponsors and donors have already begun to offer support for Team Tasha, the release stated.
“Tasha is the strongest and most selfless person I know,” said David Newcombe, organizer of Team Tasha and co-founder of Launch Real Estate.
“Team Tasha is a very simple idea in a very complex year. It seems to have set fire to people’s imaginations and we are amazed at the outpouring of support and the amount that has already been raised.
As a result, we have doubled our original fundraising goal and, in doing so, have become one of the top teams nationwide that is currently fundraising for BCRF.”
BCRF is noted as the highest-rated breast cancer organization in the U.S. and the largest private funder of breast cancer research worldwide, according to the release.
BCRF, which has awarded $66 million in research grants to 275 investigators at medical and academic institutions across 14 countries, has committed to dedicate 100% of the funds raised by Team Tasha toward triple negative metastatic breast cancer research, the release added.
For more information, to join the team or donate to the cause: teamtasha2020.com.
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