SOUTHAMPTON, NY-–This Memorial Day Weekend, more than 500 families are expected to take part in “Kites for a Cure,” a family kite fly benefit on Coopers Beach in Southampton, NY.
The event (Saturday, May 24 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.) is hosted by Joan’s Legacy: Uniting Against Lung Cancer, which funds innovative lung cancer research around the country.
Last year more than 600 people came together to decorate and fly hundreds of kites over one of America’s most beautiful beaches to combat lung cancer – the nation’s #1 Cancer Killer.
With a $25 donation, guests will receive a high-quality kite they can decorate themselves on site -- drawing pictures or writing names, wishes or simply sending loving messages into the sky on the afternoon’s off-shore breezes. The money raised will support Joan’s Legacy’s national lung cancer research grant program.
Joan’s Legacy is named for Joan Scarangello, a Southampton resident and non-smoker who lost her battle with lung cancer in 2001. In just six years, the foundation has awarded $3.6 million in research grants to identify the causes, new treatments, and possible cures for the disease that will claim an estimated 160,000 lives in the U.S. this year.
Lung cancer will kill more Americans this year than colon, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers combined, and more women than breast, uterine and ovarian cancers combined, but receives less federal research funding per death than any of the other major cancers.
Joan’s Legacy, a 501c3 tax-exempt organization headquartered in New York, has grown under the direction of Joan Scarangello’s family and friends to become one of the leading sources of funding for lung cancer research in the country. Increasingly joined by like-minded organizations and families, Joan’s Legacy is recognized for spurring new and innovative research projects – ideas that wouldn’t get off the ground without the seed funding Joan’s Legacy provides – the foundation has quickly become the venture capital source for important research into the disease.
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