Bakes for Breast Cancer at Edwards Brothers
Bakes for Breast Cancer, the Massachusetts-based non-profit organization dedicated to funding breast cancer researchers and clinicians, is proud to announce its 25th anniversary in 2024 and event dates. These will include at Edwards Brothers Supermarket in Dover-Foxcroft from Friday, July 26 to Thursday, Aug. 1 with freshly-baked Maine whoopie pies.
Founder Carol Sneider launched this event and nonprofit in memory of her mother who lost her battle with breast cancer at the age of 43. The best memories Sneider recalls were the times spent in the kitchen baking bread, cakes, and other sweet treats.
Since its inception in 1999, Bakes for Bakes Cancer has encouraged restaurants, cafés, bakeries, pastry shops, grocery stores, and other businesses offering desserts to designate one of their sweet treats during the weeklong event where 100 percent of the proceeds go to Bakes for Breast Cancer to fund breast cancer research. Participating establishments also have the opportunity to offer up their entire dessert roster where 50 percent of the proceeds goes back to the organization. Over the last 25 years, Bakes for Breast Cancer has raised over $2 million and over 5,000 different establishments have participated in the annual weeklong event throughout Massachusetts and as it expanded into different regions in various years.
“Since 1999, Bakes for Breast Cancer has been on a mission to do its part to help eradicate breast cancer for good, one sweet treat at a time,” said Sneider. “We are proud to keep expanding into different states and marquee cities, and we will continue to do so in areas with thriving culinary scenes with establishments that share the same mission as ours. Statistics on the number of both women and men directly and indirectly affected by breast cancer are alarming, and we will continue to do our best to help reduce those numbers.”
According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 1 in 8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. In 2023, an estimated 297,790 women and 2,800 men will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women except for skin cancers, and it is estimated that in 2023, approximately 30 percent of all new female cancer diagnoses will be breast cancer. On average, every 2 minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States and approximately 15 percent of women diagnosed have a family history of breast cancer.
Bakes for Breast Cancer is an annual “sweet” to raise funds for breast cancer research and care where hundreds of restaurants, bakeries, cafés, and retail shops in 10 different states or regions participate by designating all sales of one specific desert, or fifty percent of proceeds from their entire dessert menu, to breast cancer care and research. Proceeds from the event benefit Bakes for Breast Cancer, Inc., a nonprofit breast cancer organization dedicated to funding breast cancer researchers and clinicians. For more information, please visit www.bakesforbreastcancer.org.