“Your chance of winning Bunco is 1:12. In the U.S., the chance of a woman being diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in her lifetime is about 1 in 8.”
(source of statistic: The American Cancer Society)
News & Events
Meet the people who make Bunco For Breast Cancer such an amazing success by organizing their own events!
News
- Bunco For Breast Cancer is now on Facebook! Visit our page, become a friend and/or a fan. Contribute to our Wall!! We'd love to hear from you. Visit us on Facebook today!
- Woodstock Bunco For Breast Cancer has raised a total of $135,000 since their first event, in 2005! Congratulations to Susan Martino, her daughters Tracy Noe, Laura Littner, and Michelle Mitchel, and the whole Martino family and the organizing team for this amazing result. Woodstock remains our champion Bunco For Breast Cancer fundraiser!
Other groups are continuing to raise significant funds for breast cancer research.
- A'nna Neef and Bunco Beauties for Breast Cancer have raised $34,048 since 2006. Click on BB4BC's page (above left--Plainfield, IL) to learn more and see photos.
- Jeanne Fitzner and her group in Westmont, IL again raised $10,000 for the second year in a row.
- Candy Homan and the Bunco Babes of Ocala, FL held their first BFBC event on January 17th, 2009 and raised $10,000!
- Sue Stonehouse and Pam MacAllum raised $20,000 at their first event in Santa Rosa Valley, CA
- Alison Bonaguro’s Country Music Blog carries an archived piece about Bunco For Breast Cancer and its founder, Alison's good friend Mary Green.
If you recently held a Bunco For Breast Cancer event and would like to share your story and post your event photos, go to our helpful tools menu and click on organizer questionnaire or flickr photo upload (follow the upload instructions and send the final URL to coordinator@buncoforbreastcancer.org.)