Angela Lansbury, Sara Ramirez and David Hyde Pierce are just a few of the dozens of Broadway stars who have posed for photos with stuffed breast cancer awareness bears and supplied their autographs to help raise money to support The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
Project Teddy Bear was conceived in 2004 as a way for walk participant Lisa Spodak to raise money and awareness to fight breast cancer. Spodak has walked in 13 walks (each is 2 days and 39.3 miles long) since 2002 and raised more than $100,000.
The current batch of live auctions ends late Friday, March 21, and consists of 25 bears with autographs and photos. The featured celebrities come from the worlds of film, television and stage. All the eBay auctions can be reached through http://www.lisawalks.com/ptb2008.
Additional auctions are launched throughout the course of the year and people can learn more, and sign up for a notification mailing list, at
http://www.lisawalks.com. The Avon Walk series is a project of the Avon Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity, and funds raised are distributed by the Foundation to advance access to care and finding a cure for breast cancer, with a focus on the medically underserved. During the 2007 Avon Walk closing ceremonies, the Foundation immediately awarded a total of nearly 50 grants ranging from $100,000 to over $6 million to leading cancer centers, research institutions and community-based organizations in the Walk regions, with additional grants awarded nationally throughout the year. For a complete list of Avon Foundation funding, visit
www.avonfoundation.org.
