My first Dragon Boat Upstate Festival
I can’t believe I haven’t attended a Dragon Boat Upstate Festival before this year! What an amazing experience to see so many people join together for one purpose: to paddle for cancer research and rehabilitation through the GHS Cancer Center and the Institute for Translational Oncology Research (ITOR). I was humbled by the overall experience, [...]
Dragon Boat week is here!
In celebration of Dragon Boat Upstate Festival week (the event is this Saturday, April 21 at Portman Marina on Lake Hartwell), I’d like to share another story from one of our paddlers. It’s been an honor to collect these stories from our paddlers – it reminds me how truly important this festival and its fundraising [...]
The countdown is on
One month to go til Dragon Boat Upstate Festival April 21 at Portman Marina on Lake Hartwell! In the past six years, Dragon Boat teams, often made up of doctors, patients, family members, friends and co-workers, have rallied together and raised over $500,000 for cancer research and rehabilitation at the GHS Cancer Center. That’s pretty [...]
Winning the fight
Today I’d like to share one of the most touching moments I’ve experienced at the Office of Philanthropy and Partnership. Our great friends, the Winn family, lost a patriarch, Karl Winn, to cancer five years ago. Instead of letting that tragedy rule their lives, the Winns turned their grief into a cause that they would [...]
Why do you paddle?
Here in the office, we’ve been gearing up for one of our biggest fundraising events of the year: Dragon Boat Upstate Festival! On April 21, over 1,000 paddlers will descend on Portman Marina at Lake Hartwell to race against other teams, to celebrate their fundraising success (this year’s goal is $250,000 for cancer research and [...]
