Cycling Across the US in Honor of Warren Thornthwaite


Team Fundraising Goal: $20,000.00

Total Number of Gifts: 60
Total Value of Gifts: $29,015.00

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Norman And Jane

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Warren Thornthwaite

Lois Brooks and Aaron Reizes

Matt and Michelle Pierson

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About the National Brain Tumor Society:

National Brain Tumor Society is fiercely committed to finding better treatments, and ultimately a cure, for people living with a brain tumor today and anyone who will be diagnosed tomorrow. This means effecting change in the system at all levels.

For more information about the National Brain Tumor Society, visit http://www.braintumor.org/.

Riding to honor Warren

On May 9, 2014 Warren Thornthwaite, a friend, colleague, mentor to many, and an inspiration to everyone, lost his valiant battle against Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM).

To quote his wife, Elizabeth: "Warren fought the tumor but refused to let the tumor change who he was or how he chose to live. He remained phenomenally appreciative, enthusiastic, optimistic and happy despite understanding the difficult prognosis and extraordinarily tough path for GBM patients."

In May of 2016, in honor of Warren, we will depart San Francisco on a meandering 5,500 mile, 5-month bicycle journey across the US to raise research funds to fight GBM. Our cycling pace is a slow one, but one that Warren would have loved because our plan isn't to race across the country. Our goal is to focus on the journey, not the destination. We're building in time to enjoy nature, the outdoors and the people we meet while spreading the word about GBM.

Just like Warren would have done.

You can follow our adventure at: https://itinerantphilosopher.wordpress.com/

Help us defeat GBM

We hope you'll join us in fighting GBM by donating to the National Brain Tumor Society's DEFEAT GBM research efforts. Our goal is to raise $20,000 (or more!) in donations. Thanks to clever little digital conveyor belts behind the scenes, all donations via this page will automatically be directed to towards GBM research efforts.

We'd be thrilled with any donation. You can pledge any value you'd like -- a nice round figure, or an amount per mile. ... and because we like doing arithmetic:
* $5,500 - $1/mile
* $550 - dime/mile
* $275 - nickel/mile
* $100 - ~1.8 cents/mile
* $55 - penny/mile

Help us make sure GBM never steals another Warren!

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