Mark your calendar for the third annual “Make Waves Day” on Thursday, June 20 in Stamford, with area restaurants and retailers. This annual event is a community fundraising initiative with Swim Across America Fairfield County to help raise funds for groundbreaking cancer gene therapy research.
Participating retailers and restaurants will contribute a portion of their sales from June 20 to Swim Across America Fairfield County. Many donate up to 10-to-20 percent, but each participant is free to decide which portion of the day’s sales are donated and can specify hours of the promotion. The funds raised go to directly to Swim Across America Fairfield County and its local beneficiary, Stamford-based Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT), the nation’s only nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to funding cancer gene therapy research. To see a complete list of participating retailers and restaurants in the Swim Across America Make Waves Day, visit http://bit.ly/MakeWavesDay2019.
Greenwich businesses will be supported with a banner across Greenwich Avenue from June 10 to 24 to promote the event and the Swim Across America Fairfield County open water swim, taking place on June 22. More than 300 swimmers and 100 volunteers participate in the open water swim and all "make waves” in the fight against cancer!
“It’s exciting to see the enthusiasm and participation for what we are doing grow,” said Michele Graham, the swim’s other co-chair and parent of a young adult cancer survivor. “Everyone wants to get involved and the ‘Make Waves Day’ and it is great to see the whole community helping.”
To learn more about the Swim Across America Fairfield County “Make Waves Day,” and help fight cancer, please contact either Debbie Dunster at wsd10@optonline.net or Lindsay Stafford at lws3@sbcglobal.net. To learn more about Swim Across America Fairfield County, visit swimacrossamerica.org/fairfieldcounty.