Main St., an experience-based, community-driven non-profit dedicated to LOCAL breast cancer patients has concluded its sixth, and largest fundraising season to date.
Through the support of local residents and businesses from participating towns and destinations including; Newtown, Carversville, Doylestown, Peddler’s Village, Perkasie, New Hope, Shops at Valley Square, Dublin Town Center and Thompsonville, Main St. will donate $138,000 to benefit local breast cancer patients across Bucks County.
The non-profit’s presenting sponsor, along with 62 sponsors and 91 partners propelled the success of the October 2023 season. Over the last six years, the family run 501(c)3 non-profit has donated just over $534,000, which has helped nearly 2000 local breast cancer patients in treatment and recovery in Bucks County.
The funds generated by Main St. has helped create and fund impactful programs including:
- Cold-capping;
- Out-of-pocket expense relief (paying patient’s household bills);
- Integrative Services through Kin Wellness and Support Center and Unite for Her;
- Home food delivery;
- Comfort ‘care bags’ for newly diagnosed patients;
- Treatment transportation;
- The purchase of new state-of-the-art infusion chairs at Fox Chase Cancer Center Buckingham and Doylestown Health Cancer Institute.
“Main St. was designed to be powered by the local community. Seeing the way people and business embrace and engage with us is overwhelmingly gratifying,” shared Keith Fenimore, Founder and Executive Director of Main St. “The funds donated will support the programs we have in place that continue to bring direct relief to our breast cancer community. I speak with, and hear from, the patients we support regularly and they are so appreciative of the work we do, but also, they say they get peace-of-mind knowing they are not alone and comfort when they see the entire community working together on their behalf.”
The non-profit was the recipient of many local community and business driven fundraising events held throughout the month on their behalf. Local schools hosted Pink Outs, contributing thousands of dollars. Independent businesses hosted open houses, sip n’ shops and created various proceed split special offers and residents across the County made personal contributions.
Visit the Main St. website to donate or participate in community events (www.welcometomainst.org). Donations can also be made via check to Main St. and sent to P.O. Box 307, Doylestown, PA 18901.
Main St. (Main Street Missions Corp) was established in 2018 to honor Marianne Fenimore and memorialize Josephine Mazza. Main St. is collaborative and strives to reinvent fundraising and innovate within the non-profit space.
The tenets of the organization are: Keep the funds local – donate 100% of the proceeds raised during the month of October – put funds to immediate use. (www.welcometomainst.org) Main St. (formerly Pine2Pink) was established through a charitable grant contribution made by The Minford Charitable Foundation.
You can visit Main St. on Facebook and Instagram: @MainSt and @Welcometomainst.