Friday, November 3, 2006

Largest Sum Ever Raised by an Athletic Fundraising Event

BOSTON (Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006 — The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, the most successful athletic fundraising event in the nation, tonight contributed $26 million to cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The gift brings the PMC’s 27-year total contribution to more than $171 million. This record-setting sum is the largest gift ever made to the Jimmy Fund. more