Cancer Camp $10 Challenge
 Goal: To have each Dancer that attends the Dance Marathon BIG Event raise at least $10 online during the BIG Event, February 1 and 2, that will go towards the Heart Connection Camp. It is the hope that with at least 1,000 dancers at the BIG Event that we can raise at least $10,000, if not more!
Purpose: UI Dance Marathon annually sponsors the Heart Connection Camp for kids and siblings. This is a program that Dance Marathon is dedicated to supporting, and this program will help to ensure that DM is able to continue its support.
Where is this money going? Heart Connection Camp is actually a two part camp; the first part being for patients and the second being for siblings of patients. Each session is a weeklong at a camp in Boone, Iowa where doctors and nurses get to interact with patients in a different environment and everyone gets to let their hair down and have a great time. During the sibling session they get to interact with other children who are experience the same thing and have fun and just be kids.
This is a wonderful program that Dance Marathon hopes to continue to support, and the Cancer Camp Challenge will help to ensure that DM is able to do just that.
Links on Heart Connection Camp:
 How will this work? The online giving system will have a pre-generated email that you can use to send to family, friends, or anyone you know asking them to help this incredible cause. Dance Marathon will have the message completed and uploaded for you. All you will need to do is send the email(s) from your personal online giving page. You will be given time during the event to use a computer to send the email(s) out, or you can send out the email before hand and add a message to donate between 8 am Friday, February 1 and 3pm Saturday, February 2.
 Wait a second, I already raised my money? Why do I have to raise more? If you have already raised your money you do not have to raise any more money. You can still come to the BIG Event and have the time of your life. The Cancer Camp Challenge is a great way to do something For The Kids (FTK!). Kids that have gone to the camp have had the time of their life, and Dance Marathon wants to make sure this incredible opportunity continues.
Incentives for you: The main incentive for the Cancer Camp Challenge is the simply knowing that you have helped a child battling cancer to have a week of fun during the summer. Also the top 10 money raisers will secure a trip to the DM Diner to have dinner with DM Families. The DM Diner program takes place on Sunday evenings and brings catered meals to the families.
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