events & programs

Make your kids imagination run wild with this custom designed candy store playhouse from the makers of Kids Crooked House. Whimsical design, uniquely crooked shingle roof, curiously angled walls and windows…your kids will be the hit of the neighborhood with this unique backyard masterpiece. The finished house is 6ft. by 9ft. and the house will be professionally delivered and assembled by the dealer.

1 ticket - $10.00

3 tickets - $20.00

Drawing will be held on September 15, 2010.

The First Annual SOAR WITH GRACE Tennis Benefit will take place on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010 at the Weddington Swim and Racquet Club.

Please click below for more details.

The Cure Starts Now's Race Against the Odds is the premiere fundraising event for The Cure Starts Now Foundation in the Prior Lake, MN area.  Join us for a 5k run/walk on Sept. 19, 2010 at 8:00 am in Lakefront Park.  Funds raised at this family-friendly race will go toward funding pediatric brain cancer research to help find a cure, in memory of Ella Hauschildt, a 7 year old girl from Lakeville who bravely fought her battle with brain cancer.

Registration will begin at 8:00 am and the walk/run begins at 9:00 am.

Join us at 10am for family fun activities including face painting, air brush tattoos, games, bounce houses and more!

Join us for a family friendly walk.  Angels for a Miracle is a benefit for The Cure Starts Now in honor of Keileigh Cummings.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Valley Park in Hurricane, WV

Registration opens at 1:00pm, Walk begins 2:00pm

Please join us on Sunday, 10.10.10 for some awesome Christian music, bounce houses for the kids, a professional clown, balloon animals, cake walk, silent auction, pizza, hot dogs, soft drinks, and slushies!

Team Church - 2301 Stevens Mill Road - Matthews, NC 28104

Achieve Corporate Outrigger Challenge

Sunday 24th October, 2010

IT’S ON AGAIN...

Achieve Recruitment presents the 2010 Achieve Corporate Outrigger Challenge. Limited places available. Sponsorship packages on offer.

Due to a number of enquiries and early registrations we are taking bookings now for this year's event! Call the office today on 4772 3000 to secure your spot.

Join us at the 2nd Annual Race Against the Odds in the Metro DC area.

Saturday, November 7, 2010; Registration at 8:00 am, Race begins at 9:00 am

Bluemont Park, Arlington VA

The Rusy ball is a charity benefit concert in Cincinnati. The best part? You can pick which charity your tickets support. Check out the third annual Rusty Ball and be sure to select The Cure Starts Now as your charitable organization of choice.

Duke Energy Convention Center
November 20, 2010
8:00pm to 12:00am

We are looking for 100 kind hearted businesses or individuals to donate $100 to help to fund a brain stem glioma trial in Australia.  Become a certified partner in our search for a potential homerun cure today.

Donate across Australia today with our friends at Suncorp Bank.  Account name: The Cure Starts Now, Inc: BSB-484-799.  Account #60-169007-8.

On behalf of our children, thank you!

Questions?  Please contact Ren Pedersen  ren@thecurestartsnow.org

Caps for the Cure is a fun and easy way to raise much needed funds and awareness for pediatric brain cancer research. We are asking schools across the country to help us in this battle by allowing their students to wear a hat for the day to show their support for pediatric brain cancer research. In exchange for their ability to wear a hat for the day, students will donate $1.00 to The Cure Starts Now. Excited about helping children with brain cancer and want to do more? Many schools have offered to make the event bigger.

Here are some ideas:

• Have the classes compete with each other to collect the most money.
• Have a teacher or staff member offer to do something crazy (shave their hair, wear PJ's to school, dye their hair pink) if they raise a certain amount of money.
• Offer an ice cream/pizza party or other incentive if they reach a certain goal.

Be creative! Kids always like a challenge and this is a great way to teach them the benefit of giving.

To participate or get more information for your school or group, e-mail us!

Make a stand against pediatric brain cancer - a lemonade stand! Use the materials below to create your own lemonade stand benefiting The Cure Starts Now in our mission to cure cancer, one child at a time.

Contact us to register your stand by clicking here.

Download the starter kit.

Visit our virtual lemonade stands.

Join companies nationwide in support of pediatric brain cancer research and The Cure Starts Now.  It's simple. Sign up your company by contacting us and we'll send information as well as arm band stickers for your staff. Then on a designated day of your choice and with every donation to The Cure Starts Now, your co-workers receive a sticker to place on their sleeve. What a perfect way to show your support for our children!

Contact us to get started!

Two local Tellico clubs, Tellico Riders and Village Vettes have joined forces in the battle to find a cure for pediatric brain cancer. For the second year in a row, the club members will contribute their best recipes to publish a cookbook. The "Taste of Tellico Volume 2" will feature all types of main dishes. The cookbookis the second in a series of cookbooks. The first "Taste of Tellico" appetizer cookbook, published in 2009, was a tremendous success. The books are unique because they bring together a collection of local Tellico resident's favorite, no-fail recipes to create a compilation of cuisine's "Greatest Hits".

The cookbooks will go on sale in September, just in time for holiday gift giving!

Generous sponsorships by Granite Transformations, The Grove Wine and Spirits and 72 Wine and Spirits have underwritten the printing costs and allowed 100% of all book sales to go directly to The Cure Starts Now.

Check out the Dinner Club to see how you can help The Cure Starts Now simply by eating out.

Selling items on Ebay?  You can donate a portion of your winning bid to The Cure Starts Now.  As a thank you, when your listing sells, EBay will give you a pro-rated credit on your Insertion fee and Final Value fees.

The first annual Once in a Lifetime Auction and Gala offered attendants a delicious item to bid on: create your own Graeter's ice cream flavor. Originally slated for a limited run, Elena's Blueberry Pie is now a permanent fixture on the Graeter's menu with $.50 from every pint sold benefiting The Cure Starts Now.

Get the book today and learn the story of the girl whose legacy is The Cure Starts Now.

Use GoodSearch.com for all of your internet searches and online shopping. It works like Yahoo!, only better. Everytime you search, a small fee is made available to the foundation, and everytime you shop, up to 3% of your purchase is donated to The Cure Starts Now foundation. You still get all of the same great pricing, just with a better result. Choose from a list of just about all major stores. Just make sure your search benefits "Cure Starts Now" and search and shop away!

Use your The Cure Starts Now Visa card to earn points towards airline tickets and merchandise. Plus, the first time you use the card the bank will make a $50 donation to the foundation.

Apply for your The Cure Starts Now Visa card today.