11th Annual SouthEnd Shuffle
Yesterday we had the honor of attending the the 11th annual South End Shuffle 5k & Mile Run. This year’s event had one of the largest registrations – about 1,700 people! Thank you to our Purple Promise Board members, Nicole and JB Meanor, Tim and Sara Jane Hodgkins, Davis Robinson, and David and Donna Hodgkins […]
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CLT Pride Weekend
As we say goodbye to summer 2024 all of us at The Purple Promise Foundation want to extend a thank you to Charlotte Pride for a wonderful Pride weekend in August. We had over 250 people stop by our booth to learn more about sun safety, enter our raffle, and reapply their sunscreen as they […]
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11th Annual Light The Night Purple
Last night we celebrated our 11th annual Light The Night Purple event at The Terrace at Cedar Hill in Uptown Charlotte. Thank you to everyone who attended and helped us to raise awareness and funds to support melanoma research; we are forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support this community gives to […]
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$100,000 Grant Awarded to Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute
At the annual Purple Promise Foundation board meeting in November, the board approved funding for a two-year grant to support melanoma research at Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute. The $100,000 grant will be used to study ways in which medical professionals redirect immunotherapy for recurring melanoma in patients. This innovative melanoma research study will be […]
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16th Annual Save Your Skin Golf Classic
On Monday, November 13th David Hodgkins, President of the Purple Promise Foundation had the honor of speaking to attendees at the 16th annual Save Your Skin Golf Classic which raised nearly $100,000 for Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute this year. Congratulations to all of this year’s golfers, and a very special shout out to Purple […]
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10th Annual South End Shuffle
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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2023 Charlotte Pride Festival
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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10th Anniversary Light the Night Purple Celebration
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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Girl Scouts Hornets Nest Council Partnership
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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