The Miami Dolphins joined forces with the South Florida neighborhood for the thirteenth annual Dolphins Problem Most cancers (DCC XIII), elevating funds for revolutionary most cancers analysis at Sylvester Complete Most cancers Heart, a part of UHealth – the College of Miami Well being System. Because the NFL’s largest fundraising occasion, DCC XIII made historical past in each fundraising and participation, elevating greater than $10 million – with further donations anticipated within the coming month – and uniting a record-breaking 5,641 members on Saturday, February 25, at Arduous Rock Stadium.
“I’m so proud and honored to be part of a crew and neighborhood effort that’s impacting so many individuals,” mentioned Tom Garfinkel, Dolphins Vice Chairman, President and CEO. “Over 5,000 individuals raised over $10 million, 100% of which is able to go to combat most cancers on the Sylvester Most cancers Heart on the College of Miami. We’ve been capable of develop due to the management of our Chair Elizabeth Jenkins, Government Director Javier Sanchez and his crew, and our companions at Lennar, AutoNation, and so many different followers and companions all through the neighborhood. I’m trying ahead to seeing what we will do to make an excellent greater influence in 2024.”
With the $10 million and counting raised at DCC XIII, the Dolphins have now raised greater than $63 million of the $75 million dedication in direction of the widespread objective of difficult most cancers and supporting these impacted by most cancers by the work of Sylvester.
“The Dolphins Problem Most cancers’s year-round efforts spearheaded by the annual DCC occasion is an illustration of the Miami Dolphins’ ‘one crew, one combat’ mission as gamers, most cancers survivors and neighborhood leaders come collectively to search out options to this detrimental illness,” mentioned Javier Sanchez, Dolphins Problem Most cancers Government Director. “Because of our long-standing relationship with Sylvester along with the commitments made by our companions and members, we proceed to convey improved therapies to South Florida.”
The favored philanthropic occasion gained the help of the South Florida neighborhood joined by members of the Miami Dolphins group. Contributors got the chance to cycle, run, stroll or volunteer on the occasion in continuation of fulfilling the DCC’s $75M dedication, the biggest recognized philanthropic pledge in sports activities, made in November 2020 in help of most cancers analysis at Sylvester.
“I need to thank the Miami Dolphins and everybody on this unbelievable neighborhood who participated in DCC XIII. 13 years in the past, nobody may have predicted that this occasion would resonate a lot with our neighborhood and convey such immense profit to Sylvester,” mentioned Stephen D. Nimer, M.D., director of Sylvester, Oscar de la Renta Endowed Chair in Most cancers Analysis, and govt dean for analysis on the College of Miami Miller Faculty of Medication. “Collectively, we’ve constructed world-leading analysis groups which are making monumental advances within the prevention and remedy of many cancers.”
The DCC donates 100% of participant-raised funds for most cancers analysis at Sylvester, an effort made doable by the unbelievable help of all its contributors together with the beneficiant donations from Harris Philanthropies, the Lennar Company and the Papanicolaou Corps for Most cancers. The 100-mile experience offered by UKG, 55-mile experience, 35-mile experience offered by Robins & Morton, 15-mile experience offered by Aetna and the DCC 5K offered by Amazon all ended on the Mad Canine End Line offered by AutoNation DRV PNK.
To conclude the occasion, members celebrated on the End Line Competition, with those that surpassed a fundraising objective of $3,000 partaking within the Heavy Hitter expertise offered by Berkowitz Pollack Brant & Provenance Wealth Advisors. The Dwelling Proof Program offered by Harcourt M. and Virginia W. Sylvester Basis had over 350 survivors take part in festivities. The Lennar Basis, a legacy accomplice and one of many occasion’s largest organizational donors stepped up for its twelfth consecutive 12 months to help the DCC.
The Dolphins Problem Most cancers (DCC) was based in 2010 by the Miami Dolphins group because the signature initiative of the Basis’s well being influence space and has turn into the biggest fundraising occasion within the NFL. The DCC’s goal is to enhance individuals’s lives by monetary help for revolutionary most cancers analysis at Sylvester Complete Most cancers Heart, a part of the College of Miami Well being System. Ranked among the many prime 50 of U.S. Information & World Report’s Greatest Hospitals in 2022, Sylvester is South Florida’s solely Nationwide Most cancers Institute (NCI) designated most cancers middle. Since its inception, the DCC has raised greater than $63 million, donating 100% of participant-raised funds to Sylvester. For extra info, go to www.DolphinsChallengeCancer.com
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