Merrimack's Pink Rubber Ducks Go for Another Year!

9/11/08

Nichole Baldwin is doing her part for breast cancer awareness again this year.  It's heartwarming to see someone go the extra mile like she does.  Thanks for all your hard work Nichole!

 

From Nichole:
"October 1st - 14th at Merrimack College in North Andover, MA, pink rubber ducky's will be sold for $1, profits to be donated to the Avon Foundation in memory of Monica Cooper. The ducks will float in Mendel Pond on campus for the last 2 weeks. Duck Release Ceremony will be on October 15th."

 

Update:  As of the 7th, there have been over 200 little pink ducks sold.  Go Merrimack!
 

 

Rubber Ducks Go Pink for a Good Cause

10/22/07

 

An inspired student at Merrimack College in Connecticut is working hard for Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October), with help from a batch of pink rubber ducks.  Nichole Baldwin is selling these special ducks with plans to float them in the college library’s reflecting pool from October 22nd to November 1st.  Her goal is to sell and float 500 ducks.  She is selling the ducks for $1 each, numbering them, and writing the names of "Breast Cancer Heroes" on the ducks.  Explaining her terminology, Baldwin was quoted: “I don’t like to say a ‘cancer survivor’ or ‘someone who died of cancer,’”   All proceeds will go to the "Monica Cooper Children of Breast Cancer Fund" scholarship, which benefits children who have lost a parent to breast cancer.

 

Baldwin hopes the Mendel Pond pink duck float will become an annual event.  If you'd like to contact Nicole, you can email her at BaldwinN@merrimack.edu.  Go, Nichole, go!

 

Malaysian Rubber Ducks Go Glam For A Good Cause

Sept 22, 08

 

The pink rubber duck, a commonly used symbol in the fight against breast cancer, gets a glam makeover in Malaysia this Fall in the “Passionately Pink” fund raising campaign for breast cancer awareness and research. During the 2-month-long campaign, events such as a duck beauty pageant and a bake sale will be held, but don’t miss the celebrity duck auction with custom decorated pink rubber ducks. The pink rubber ducks, whose tag line is “Don’t Duck a Breast Exam”, have been decked out in everything from feathers to gemstones by Malaysian celebrities, and will be auctioned off during the campaign. At least 6 celebrity ducks will be auctioned in the event. To check out the celebrity ducks, head to the Passionately Pink Gallery at Palm Square, Jaya One in Malaysia.

 

One of the goals of the campaign is to raise more than RM100,000 ($28,000 US) to fund the Breast Cancer Community Treatment Programme at the Assunta Hospital.