Purple Promise Foundation to End Melanoma

This past Saturday we had the honor of participating in the 10th Annual South End Shuffle 5k & Mile Run. This is by far one of the events that we love to participate in each year! A huge thank you to Skufca Law for their continued support of The Purple Promise Foundation and for having …

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The Purple Promise Foundation once again participated in the 2023 Charlotte Pride Festival in Uptown Charlotte on August 19 and 20. This year there was a record-breaking 260,000 visitors! It was a very hot and sunny two days and we gave out lots of free sunscreen and sun-safety information. We had so many people express …

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Hello, friends and supporters of The Purple Promise Foundation to End Melanoma! We celebrated the 10th anniversary of our “Light the Night Purple” event on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, and greatly enjoyed seeing many of you there! In addition to the camaraderie, we had the opportunity to hear a powerful presentation by Kathy Percy, a …

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The Purple Promise Foundation is excited to announce that this year we are once again partnering with the Girl Scouts Hornets Nest Council to fund their grant request to create two new sun shelters at their 700-acre summer camp facility in Statesville, North Carolina. We can’t wait to see the new structures in place and …

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    On September 10, 2022, Purple Promise board members participated in the 9th Annual South End Shuffle 5k & Mile Run. A special shout out to our Board Member JB Meanor and his daughter Catie for representing us in the 5K race. While the weather was dark, the spirits of the close to 1000 …

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On August 20th and 21, 2022, the Purple Promise Foundation to End Melanoma participated in the annual Charlotte Pride Festival in Uptown Charlotte. We are grateful to join the organizers of the event and the estimated 275,000 members of our community who attended the 2-day festival. We appreciate the opportunity to share our mission, provide …

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As part of a joint partnership with the local Rotary Club in Peru and the Dilworth Rotary Club here in Charlotte, we helped to provide sunscreen and educational materials to the low-income workers in the coastal area of Peru in both March and April.