"Get In Touch" Newsletter October 2013

"You are as important to your health as it is to you."

~ Terri Guillemets

October 2013

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Mary Ann's blog!

Greetings!

We know it's the end of October, but we want to take a look back at all the month had in store for Get In Touch!

The Get In Touch Foundation refers to October as Breast HEALTH Awareness Month, always focusing on what we need to do in order to be breast-healthy.

We also made the announcement that we changed our Mission Statement to reflect the growing number of men that are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.

The mission of the Get In Touch Foundation is to provide breast health initiatives that educate gals and guys of all ages how to "get in touch" with their bodies, information, and each other in our crusade against breast cancer.

In the US alone, 2500 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and 25% of men with breast cancer will die each year.

Those numbers are high and it is important for boys to know that men can get breast cancer, too...it's time for them to "get in touch."

Thank you for all you do to help us in our mission.

Hope Lives!

Mary Ann Wasil

President, CEO & Founder,

Breast Cancer Kickin' Survivor & Health Activist

GIT + YMCA = Fab Partnership!

The Get In Touch Foundation was invited by the YMCA of Greater Providence to pilot our Get In Touch Girls' Program at the Bayside YMCA in Barrington, Rhode Island. We recently we met with a few girls and their moms along with several YMCA Officers and began brainstorming.

We are excited about the opportunities that lay ahead for GIT and the 2600+ chapters of the YMCA in the US alone! Here's the Y's tagline...you can see why we are a perfect fit! The Y: For youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility.

Girl Power!

I loved spending time with a Connecticut Girl Scout Troop and Honorary Chairperson of the Get In Touch Youth Ambassador Committee, Rebecca Lobo, along with Youth Ambassador Liaison Katie Tripp, educating girls on the importance of breast self-exam.

Hope Lives!

And those Rock On Girls - 11 year old Isabella Meade, and her 9 year old sister Soledad are at it again...they raised $350 for us at Milford's annual Cap'n Kidd Treasure Hunt Pirate's Day. Rock ON and thank you, Isabella and Soledad!

GITin' Pink On!

October 18 was GIT Your Pink On! Day and we felt the love and support from so many places. Here are a couple of pics from GIT fans who wore pink and donated funds to help us accomplish our mission. Look for more pics next month!

University of Virginia Women's Rowing

Bunnell High School

Milford City Hall flew our flag!

Cape Cod "Pretty In Pink

Wequassett Resort and Golf Club in Harwich was the scene of the 1st Annual Cape Cod Pretty In Pink Sunset Jazz Night. Woman of Strength Trish Daly-Karlson was moving and eloquent...and Healing Team Speaker Nancy Griffin dazzled the guests with her passion. Jazz-greats Mercedes Hall and Mark Greel entertained our guests, who danced the night away on Pleasant Bay!

NEWS: Pocock Racing Shells competition for charity

We are ecstatic to announce a fundraising initiative by Pocock Racing Shells that will benefit rowing teams AND Get In Touch!

Pocock wants to encourage rowing teams to raise funds for their favorite cancer-based charities and the team that raises the most (per-person average based on roster size) will win a Patagonia 3 Zip Neck top embroidered with their team logo!

Pocock is featuring our LACES FOR LANA on their website and encouraging rowers to "lace-up" for Get In Touch!

High schools, clubs and college rowers will be selling Laces For Lana from now through March 31, 2014 - may the best team win!

(Check out our Laces For Lana webpage for more info on how to begin selling laces at your school.)

Milford, Connecticut "Pretty In Pink"

Look for pictures in our November 2013 Newsletter...stay tuned!

"Thank You!"

We asked you to "give" and you did - your generosity resulted in $3,555 from

85 donors in this 36-hour online giving event! Special thanks to The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven and Valley Community Foundation for their matching gift donations bringing our total to $3882.41!

Click if you would like to make a donation to

The Get In Touch Foundation.

The Get In Touch Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization,

Employer Identification #32-0196983; ID#52443; CT Tax ID#45501418; PA Non-Profit ID#41451

WE DID IT!

We're in every state in the US, but not in every county, yet...

If you're a school nurse who has not yet signed up your school, click here to sign up and join us as we "change the world one girl at a time."

Have You Downloaded Our App Yet?

We are over the moon about the Daisy Wheel© App, which has now been downloaded in 79 countries! If you're an iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone user, go to the iTunes App Store and download it for free. If you love it as much as we do, we'd be grateful if you'd help us spread the word by telling your friends and writing a review, too. It's making our mission to "change the world one girl at a time" a global reality!

Where in the World is YOUR Daisy Wheel?!

The "traveling Daisy Wheel" made it to Rome last month...here is our Daisy Wheel hanging out with Kerry Robinson overlooking the papal palace.

If you've got a picture of your Daisy Wheel - or of yourself in your GIT gear - email it to us and you just may see yourself in an upcoming newsletter.

Please email your pics to info@getintouchfoundation.org...

...and don't forget to follow us on Instagram!

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