Athletes for a Cure is a fundraising and awareness program to assist individual athletes or teams in their quest to raise money for better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer. Athletes for a Cure is a community of people who have become part of the solution. Participation in the program is a way to multiply one person’s sense of accomplishment into a cure for millions of men. All money raised from the program goes directly to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
The Athletes for a Cure website, www.athletesforacure.org, provides athletes with multiple tools to create a home in the racing and fundraising community. Registered participants can upload photos, personal stories and race information on their own page; set donation goals; send emails to their friends and family through the "Friends Asking Friends" network; and watch as their donations climb.
Although athletes can raise money for prostate cancer research as part of any race event for which they are participating, there are several designated events in 2009 with which the PCF is working closely to spread the word.
