Dorothy: [00:00:00] Let’s Talk About Your Breasts, a different kind of podcast presented to you by The Rose, the Breast Center of Excellence and a Texas treasure. You’re going to hear frank discussions about tough topics, and you’re going to learn why knowing about your breasts could save your life.
Today we have with us Shannon McNair and LaTonya Perez who are talking about third party events and all of the other kind of fun that we have in October. Now, there’s not a whole lot fun about mammograms. But these two people turned October into some kind of happening. And every one of these events are so important to The Rose because they bring us funds that we, no way could we get these funds any other way. And they’re reaching communities that we have no way of reaching. So Shannon, you start, tell us how long you’ve been at The Rose and Some of the most fun events [00:01:00] that you’ve been a part of.
Shannon: This will be my ninth October with The Rose. I started in October, so as we say, so you start with your feet in the fire, where you learn real quick, and I’ll never forget because my first day we went to Rudy’s, and the reason we went to Rudy’s is a long time fundraiser for The Rose in October, so I learned real quick what independent fundraising is, third party fundraising, and how the community supports The Rose. The fun events, I mean, come on, they, we have Booze and Boobs, which you can’t go wrong with, uh, hanging out with those lovely ladies and the, the heart that they have in those events, and that’s what’s special about the events. One of my favorites is also Kicking for a Miracle, which is a taekwondo Golden Eagle out in Morgan, Morton Ranch in Katy, and the kids kicking boards, and so for every board the parent buys for their child to kick at this event, uh, the funds come to The Rose, and last year In the room we got real close to raising an even dollar amount and a parent said, no, that’s not good enough. Erase that check. And we ended up with $7,000.
Dorothy: Oh my goodness.
Shannon: And it’s so cute. Cause it’s, it’s the folks who are more advanced in [00:02:00] Taekwondo and those, uh, you know, high school kids. And then the little, little ones who were. But they actually will break a board, you know, they’re, you know, with a little help, but they will break a board and it’s just so precious to watch them.
They’re so enthusiastic about it. There are survivors in the room, like every event we go to, and you’ve talked about this too, when, when you go out and speak and meet with folks, you’re going to meet a survivor in the room. One in eight women, so you’re going to meet a survivor. Um, but it’s just a fun event because there’s so many people involved in that, that are just having a good time for the Rose.
Dorothy: And every one of these people who put on these events have some connection to breast cancer or some great desire to yeah to help.
Shannon: Some is very personal kicking Uh for a miracle, um, Aaron and his wife Alicia who had that up, I believe she was one of our patients when she didn’t have insurance. Now that she has insurance and they have this business they give back to The Rose. So they’re personally attached to it and then there’s some we’ll find out later like oh you helped my mom or you helped this or it’s Just uh, they’ve been touched by breast cancer whether the rose helped them or not, or we were there for them, but they want to give back and they know The Rose is a great place to [00:03:00] give back and where the money’s going to go.
Dorothy: Now, LaTonya, you haven’t been here nine years, but you came in just like Shannon with both feet on the ground, running. Tell us about your time with us.
LaTonya: I mean, it has been an amazing time. It’s only been two short years so far, and I came in, just like Shannon said, with my feet on the ground, and I started running, and I love to ask for money, so if you hit that donation button, I will be forever your friend. So third party fundraising is always my favorite time of the year. October is so much fun.
Dorothy: Now stop there a second. We call it third party fundraising. Explain in other words, what that actually means.
LaTonya: So anyone who is outside of the Rose organization, who is an individual, a company, a restaurant, someone’s mom or, you know, church doing a fundraiser, raising funds for the Rose to [00:04:00] support our mission.
Dorothy: And they host it.
LaTonya: They host the event. They carry it on and we’re there to be their cheerleaders and their supporters. And we’re there to, you know, to collect the money and really to be their support system in any way that we can.
Shannon: We’d never be able to do what they do.
Dorothy: Right.
Shannon: You know, we host events and we work internally fundraising for The Rose, both of us, but to do what happens to the community every year, and I don’t know if you know last year’s numbers, and I don’t know if you could guess.
LaTonya: How many?
Dorothy: How many events we had?
Shannon: We’ll do both, events and dollars.
Dorothy: Let’s see, I remember $150 at some point, but what was it last year?
Shannon: I think we were closer to $180.
Dorothy: $180?
Shannon: And mind you, some of these we don’t know about. Like we, you know, we find out later. We raised money and here’s, here’s the donation.
Dorothy: What was the dollar amount?
Shannon: We’ve, I think our goal is always half a million. And that’s a, that’s a lot of money, to come from the community, mostly in one month. Not always in October, mostly. And we were over $600,000 last year.
Dorothy: Oh my [00:05:00] gosh, that’s huge.
Shannon: And that’s something we couldn’t do, the two of us.
Dorothy: I mean, some of our grants are nowhere near that.
Shannon: Right. Right. And it’s, and it’s not, it’s big and small, you know, it could be $200 and it could be $20,000.
Anywhere
LaTonya: from a bake sale to a big golf tournament, I mean, or a entire restaurant filled a fabulous lady at Boobs and Boobs.
Shannon: Right. Or a bike, a motorcycle ride across the country, you know, that we’ve talked about. So it’s little and small, you know, the little ones are just as special.
Dorothy: So, LaTonya, you have no problem asking for money?
LaTonya: No, and I, I, I am completely 100 percent unabashful about asking for money. I will go up to a random stranger and say, this is my cause, this is what’s going on. And I’ve been doing it for so many years and coming to The Rose, finding a home. A job and a family here. It’s been really special to me. And I’m sorry, but, um, coming from corporate America, [00:06:00] coming to work with my good friend. Uh, it has been such a blessing. I feel 100% fulfilled in every single day.
Dorothy: It is different, you know, it’s, it’s, oh, and it’s not that one is better or worse. It’s just, it’s different.
Shannon: It’s different. Yeah. It’s very different.
Dorothy: Yeah.
Shannon: Yeah. And it’s, and well, and what we do it for. It’s, you know, and it’s, like, October’s busy. But it is a lot of fun. We get to go out and meet with these folks and help with these events. Like I said, sometimes we’re there and sometimes we’re not, but it’s, it’s a busy month, but always fulfilling month.
Dorothy: So these funds help support our Empower Her program, which, you know, even though we served like 8,000 uninsured women last year, 1,000 of them had, we didn’t have a grant for, we didn’t have any, we didn’t have any funding for, that we could put them in. Because many grants are very specific. You have to have a certain county, you have to have a certain age, you, you know.
Shannon: Right.
Dorothy: And the Empower Fund allows us to serve whoever we [00:07:00] need to, and that’s where this funds go. They go directly to the women.
Shannon: This isn’t something where we’re, we’re buying equipment and we’re paying, you know. So I think, and I think the public knows that, and that’s why they choose The Rose for their, uh, whether, again, whether we help them or not directly when they’re impacted by breast cancer.
They choose The Rose because they know where the funds go, um, and they know that, uh, we’re not, uh, where we spend our money, you know, as well. We’re very cautious of how we spend our funds to make sure that Empower Her Fund is there, um, so that we can, we can say yes to everyone.
Dorothy: I know I haven’t given you any time to think about this, LaTanya, but what is your favorite third party?
LaTonya: So everyone knows I love Chick fil A. And seeing all of the Chick fil A’s come together, I go to every single one. I stop at every single one that I can on my way or to see my mom, you know, down the Wallaceville one, I go over to, uh, C, uh, Sienna and I mean, I buy cookies. Or brownies by the dozen. [00:08:00] I love, love, love seeing the community come together and support.
But one of my all time favorites was really a small, a small group of women who came together to do workouts. It’s Fit Nation and one of their, one of their women, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and she got the surgeries and everything and she was still working out and as a mom seeing that her determination to self care was so important to me and it was one of the special moments that I’ve had at an event and it was amazing to see.
Dorothy: Oh, that is fascinating. Yeah. And it says another thing, that breast cancer doesn’t define us, doesn’t stop us.
LaTonya: No.
Dorothy: You keep going and those that can pay forward, you know, [00:09:00] it means so much to us, so. How do people tell you about these events or how?
Shannon: That said, sometimes we don’t know, you know, and then we’re, we’re like, can we help you? We could have helped and we’ll help them better next year once we know about them, but they can reach out to [email protected] is easiest way. We both get that email. So one of us will get that and then we’ll talk through what the event is, what you need from us. Some people don’t need anything or they might want a few brochures to make sure their guests know where the funds are going if they’re not familiar with The Rose, or we can create donation pages.
There’s a group in Galveston, and this is how simple it could be. It doesn’t have to be a complicated golf or tennis tournament or jumping out of an airplane, you know, those kind of things which are all great, but there’s Pirate’s Beach. I think we’ve all heard of that neighborhood in Galveston. They’re on the, they organize a walk.
They just pick a day, they get together, walk, and they make a donation. And we set up a quick donation page for them. They can donate any amount they want. They do a nice walk on a weekend for us in October. No fanfare, no expenses. You know, so it [00:10:00] can be really simple for folks to get together and do something.
And they, but they let us know we can help them. And like, so we can, like, hey, let’s create a donation page. And that way, instead of just going to our main donation page, we know where the funds go. We can organize it. We can let the organizers know a total and how much they did raise. And so we can do simple things like that. It doesn’t take us any time at all.
Dorothy: And they don’t have to touch the funding.
Shannon: They don’t have to. And that way a lot of folks don’t want to get checks. Who’s the check made out to? Grab cash, you know, accounting for that, feeling not comfortable having a bunch of cash that’s not theirs kind of thing. Um, or putting it through their bank and writing a check so that it keeps it clean and simple. And then the donors get their tax donation, since it came straight to us.
Dorothy: So, you mentioned jumping out of an airplane. What is that all about?
Shannon: Well, Jump for the Rose, one of our longest running events, and I know you’ve done it. I’ve done it.
Dorothy: Yes, yes.
Shannon: Not just, not just attended and been there. What’s special this year, well, jumping on an airplane, so that’s just already a fun event. They set records, if you go out there and watch it, there’s folks out there having a great time where this is their passion, [00:11:00] skydiving. This year they have a special raffle, Jet for the Rose. Where one of their long time supporters is donating his private jet. He will fly you and a guest to Vegas for three nights. Um, he’s covering the hotel room as well as the transfers. And you can go to Vegas and have a great time and ride, get there on a private jet. So it’s a pretty good—
Dorothy: And this is not a little bitty plane.
Shannon: No, it’s, yeah, it’s a, it’s a, yeah, it’s a very, it’s gonna be a nice fun experience for anyone who wins that and it’s a hundred dollar raffle they’re doing. We set up a page for them, so they’re ready to go. Um, and again, they’re not handling money and, and doing all that. And we’ll be drawing at the event. Jump for the Rose is where they’re actually going to be drawing for that raffle prize winner.
Dorothy: And Jump for the Rose started with Marian Sparks, who was one of our sponsored patients.
Shannon: Yes, one who likes to give back.
Dorothy: And promised Dixie that she would give back. Once she got well, she did. And I think Jump for The Rose now is touching way over 360,000.
Shannon: Yes, absolutely. They’re close to half a million, for sure. So, and again, [00:12:00] She, one person got passionate, set it up. Now she went huge, which you can do, and set up your own nonprofit. So she has her own 501 3C status. And the same with Serve Up a Cure, a group of ladies who do a tennis tournament for us and some other activities. Um, so there’s, you know, that end of the spectrum. To the schools from Tomball to La Porte who might just do the teachers do a jean day. They might sell a pink t shirt and raise funds for us.
LaTonya: Pink out days volleyball games I mean the football moms you name it those football moms go all out for that pink out game.
Shannon: Yeah.
LaTonya: And we get pictures and we’re able to share them. So they pink out the entire stadium I mean, it’s fabulous If you love pink go go and check out some of those games because from the football players worth the cleats their—
Shannon: Socks.
LaTonya: Socks. And some people even have jersey pins and the cheerleaders go all out, but the moms in the stands, they make sure that the students have pink shirts and you’re able to [00:13:00] purchase a shirt and all those donations go back to The Rose.
Dorothy: Wow. Wow. That sounds like fun.
Shannon: So they’re all fun.
Dorothy: And our employees even get involved in some of these. Absolutely.
Shannon: Absolutely, yeah. They’ll let us know, hey, my friend’s doing something for you guys so we can get in touch and again see how we can just help them if they need help. A lot of times people don’t need our help and we can just go pick up a check and take some photos and thank them in person.
Uh, so all in between. It doesn’t take much to help. And again, all of it. Cause that $600,000 number is not for people. That’s not, that is 180 plus organizers. Um, so they all matter. So some people are like, Oh, I did a little bit less than my goal. And we’re like, Oh, it all matters. It all matters.
LaTonya: And we’d really like to let them know that because sometimes people are like, well, it’s only $200. But you know what that $200 can do for a woman who’s in need?
Dorothy: Absolutely.
LaTonya: And that’s what we are there to tell them. And I mean, from tacos.
Shannon: Oh yeah, we [00:14:00] want to talk about eating. That’s probably one of our favorite things too. Not just Chick fil A, but Tacos A Go Go’s back this year with their Ta Ta Taco, which they do a special, uh, Beet juice tortilla and then a special sauce. Um, so, you know, there—
Dorothy: their tortilla is really, was going, how did they do this?
Shannon: Yes. Yeah, it’s, yeah, they have, again, you just have fun with it and it’s a special taco and, and folks enjoyed it so much that they hated when it ended in October and so they’ve been bringing it back every day.
Dorothy: They had a run with, or a walk with it too. Didn’t they, the first time we had to go to the stop sign and he had to come
Shannon: back? Oh no, you’re thinking of one of my favorites, uh, which was, and you and I both were there, that was the 1K. Beer and Taco walk. The Beer and Taco walk that was a 1K, which we were like, I’m in.
Dorothy: Yes, because it wasn’t very far and it wasn’t very long.
Shannon: And I don’t even think it was a 1K, because I think we literally stood at this line and went, See that stop sign? Just walked down there and back, and we were downtown. Um, early in the morning and, and had breakfast tacos and just had a lot of fun. Again, a survivor [00:15:00] who, um, had insurance that was not her. She was not one of our patients to give back in that way, but knew that if she was going to give back, she wanted to give back to an organization that mattered. Yeah. Yeah. There, that was a lot of fun.
Dorothy: It was.
LaTonya: And that truly is a sentiment across the board. People in our community know what The Rose does, and they want to help us reach out to the community, and they want to support us.
Dorothy: I am always surprised by the people who say, will you help my cousin, or you help my mother, or, and it, it, it just goes to the need.
Shannon: Yeah.
Dorothy: That’s in the community. Yeah. You know, I often think that, oh my gosh, our work is done. But it’s not, it’s not yet, not at all.
Shannon: And a lot of times we don’t know until after it’s all over. Then someone will say, Oh, well, you know why I did this? And we didn’t know why. And they’ll tell us then later why, what their why was, you know, and that was wasn’t just breast cancer. Of course, we know everyone, most have been touched by it because it is 1 in 8 women. [00:16:00] And for those uninsured that can give back that’s great, but there are so many out there who have just been moved by it and wanna do something.
Dorothy: Very few people are, you know, today it is, almost everbody knows someone who has been through breast cancer, when we started The Rose, it was “we’ve never heard of breast cancer. So, to me, that’s just another indicator that, yeah, to meet contenders.
Shannon: And younger and younger, as I know you’ve had plenty of shows talking about that, and we’ll meet some of those women because they’re younger and they do, they want to give back as well.
Dorothy: So can public participate in all these events, or not?
Shannon: Some, and some not. So the ones that you can, we’ll put on our website, and that way you can go buy a ticket, you can join the group, and have some fun, and we have some that are, you know, you can buy a ticket to the party or registration for some of the tennis tournaments and golf tournaments are open.
Um, Chicken and Pickle, that’s another new one this year because they’re a new company in town. They’re doing a wine walk.
LaTonya: I know, so exciting. Yes.
Shannon: So you can play pickleball at Chicken and Pickle in Webster and then also have a little, they’re going to have a wine station set up with their vendors.
Dorothy: [00:17:00] Between doing the pickleball?
Shannon: Yeah.
LaTonya: Yes, what do you think?
Shannon: You apparently haven’t seen the chicken and pickle, but that’s what it’s all about, eating and drinking and then eight pickleball courts, so.
Dorothy: Oh my gosh.
LaTonya: So they’ll have stations of different wine companies, um, and they are allowing you to come by and taste, walk around. Drink a little bit. And that’ll be open to the public. And then go play pickleball.
Shannon: Oh, okay. And they have a lot of internal stuff, like QTS is a long time corporate supporter, where they do things internally. So it’s not open to the public, but they might sell t shirts, again they might have raffles or auctions in house. Um, Evonics is another one that does some things internally. So it’s not open to the public, but it’s still a huge Undertaking for them. And again, we can help out with a webpage, you know, pages where the donations can come straight in if they don’t want to handle things.
Dorothy: So I want you to look at your list and make sure that we haven’t missed anyone. And LaTanya, when does all this start? Is it only, is it only in October [00:18:00] or?
LaTonya: So some people are starting now. So we will be starting to update that calendar I mean, we’re updating it as we speak, and it will go through the end of October, but a lot of our long time supporters, they do things throughout the year. I know Source Vital does some, 25%?
Shannon: At least 20 percent of their deodorant sales, and they’ll come to The Rose. And then, of course, there’s a walk in the woodlands at a school that’s in March. Um, Paint the Path Pink that they’ve done for years. So I can’t forget Nice Winery because we love the rosé for The Rose. I know that they’ve been on their own show, but that that’ll actually kick off. We’re doing that in the first week of October. So that’s kind of going to be a kickoff party for them to do that. And of course, J Bar M, another great barbecue place in town. They have a wonderful—
LaTonya: A big cinnamon roll. I mean, it’s pink and it’s big and it shares. It’s a family size or just a me size.
Shannon: But they’re, yeah, they’re great supporters and they’re, we’ve already talked to [00:19:00] them and they’re going to be back doing that again. And there’ll be area bars and restaurants that’ll come up with different things, either pink drinks or different, a dessert that might be on the menu.
LaTonya: Little Woodrow’s this year.
Shannon: Little Woodrow’s does pink parties at And this year, all 10 locations in the Houston area will be doing a party at some point during the month, um, and they accept donations all month long, and then each pink party’s a little bit different, but they do pink parties all month long at those locations all around town.
So yeah, it’s not, wherever you live, you’re going to find some place to go, because that’s, again, Little Woodrow’s is everything from Sugar Land to Tomball in town, and then down to Webster, we have a new location down there. And they’ve been supporting us for several years now.
Dorothy: And some of our restaurants and, and other supporters get our pink ribbons, and then they invite their customers to buy a pink ribbon in honor of someone. I think Casa Olé has done that for years.
Shannon: Absolutely. Casa Olé does that.
LaTonya: Texas Roadhouse, I believe, still does that.
Shannon: Yeah, Texas Roadhouse. And then, um, Little Woodrows. That’s what they will use a lot of those pink ribbons and ask for donations. And you’ll go into Little [00:20:00] Woodrows and really be surrounded by those, the bar, the entire bar surrounded by those.
Dorothy: So that’s another way that we can help support. by giving them those kind of materials to work with.
Shannon: Then we’ll have shopping days, like Kendra Scott, there’s always a day in October that’ll be a Rose day. Uh, Kendra Scott herself, um, is a long time supporter of breast cancer in general. And the Houston stores are great at supporting The Rose. And they’re also going to be doing some pop up shops at different events. So if some of the folks have an event, they’ll actually come and do a pop up shop at their event, um, that’ll raise some additional funds for the Rose.
Dorothy: So they’re long time supporters as well. So, Anyone else that we need to mention?
Shannon: No, because some we’re still waiting to hear from. You know, but again, we start hearing in the next few weeks for us, what’s been going on. But we’re excited. It just, it’s a good time of year for us.
Dorothy: And I know the Cancer Fighters are about to have another event.
Shannon: That’s right.
Dorothy: And they were very instrumental in starting our second center. So, you know, some of these are very long, long, long time supporters.
Shannon: Yeah. Some, and we’ll have brand new ones that we, you know, like J Bar M last year was their first year doing something and they were excited to do [00:21:00] something to keep it up. Um, so just a few years and then you have the Kendra Scotts and the Cancer Fighters and Rudy’s, um, that have been just long time immediately. They’re like, are you in? Yep. We’re in. So we do it, you know, Jim Shore, um, who’s a designer of, uh, figurines and ornaments and that sort of thing. Long before I came to The Rose, they were in place and they, he does that every year.
We get a new design every year and they sell those through their shop and also through Hallmark stores. So there’s, um, things that are also national and that’s one of the ones that is a national supporter. And that’s how important it is. We will never help folks in Cleveland or, you know, around the, but there are people who really, QTS is, has a local office, but they are a national company, but they, our mission rings a bell with them and they know. Uh, A, that we’re using those funds wisely, and where that money’s going, and it means something to them.
Dorothy: So people can find out about these events on our website. There’s a list of them.
Shannon: Absolutely.
Dorothy: Through the calendar, right?
Shannon: Yep. On the website.
Dorothy: And then we’ll be doing notices, or talking about them [00:22:00] in our newsletter.
Shannon: They’ll be in the newsletter. eBlast, the newsletters that go out, um, social media, and a lot of these events will tag us and that’s how we might even hear about some of those events because they’ll tag us on social media too.
LaTonya: So as long as they’re following us on social media platforms, I mean, you will be able to see what’s going on.
Dorothy: And so when you’re talking social media, you’re talking Facebook—
LaTonya: Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Shannon: Especially Instagram stories.
LaTonya: Instagram stories. Yes.
Shannon: That’s a non stop in October because, again, a lot of folks, who do events share them, And that’s an easy place for us to do a quick share for all of our supporters to see.
Dorothy: So it’s just another way that the community supports us, always has, always has been there for us, because I guess, Uh, they know that we’re supporting the community and, and more than ever. And you know, when we talk about this really goes to the women, there have been years when we didn’t have enough grant money to cover the requests we were getting. So, you can’t emphasize that enough how important this is.
Shannon: Unrestricted for us to put two of the women that [00:23:00] need it most, um, and making sure it’s going there. And again, these events, they don’t have expenses on us, you know, it’s, you know, so it’s something that, again, we’d never be able to do even four of these events in October with just the two of us. So it really takes the community and but because of the community and of course we were based on community supporting each other with the three insured women help you can help that one uninsured women with their insurance payments, you know, it’s it all goes back to community and we could not do it without the community help.
Dorothy: Well, thank you both for being with us today and uh, we’re gonna keep pushing and talking about our third party events.
Shannon: And again, it doesn’t matter if it’s October, if you’re thinking about it now and you’re like, Oh—
Dorothy: Yeah.
Shannon: Let me rush. Cancer doesn’t care. It doesn’t, it doesn’t care. We, we wear pink all year long. We don’t, we don’t save it for October. So don’t be afraid to do something around Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day or any other time where that makes sense to put an event together. We’re happy to help.
Dorothy: So they can do it in honor of, in memory of, [00:24:00] anything that they want to, to recognize and have us. Recognize what they’re doing.
Shannon: Yes. We are ready to go.
LaTonya: Something I learned coming here is breast cancer doesn’t know your age and it doesn’t know what month it is. So, while we are going strong in October, we really can use your help all month and all year long.
Dorothy: All year long. That’s absolutely true. Yes. Again, thank you all and we’ll encourage our listeners to go to our website. You’re going to find all kinds of things to do. From cocktails to dinners, yes. To tennis, to motorcycle rides to—
Shannon: golf, walks. Yeah. Walks.
Dorothy: Always food.
LaTonya: Food. Always food.
Shannon: There’s always, yeah. It’s popular .
Dorothy: Yeah, absolutely.
Shannon: We’re a food town, so it makes it very easy. And, and we’ve even had veg vegan and vegetarian restaurants, so it doesn’t have to be all the sugars .
Dorothy: Right, right.
Shannon: There’s lots of things for everybody, um, to, to come out and do it. And if you have an idea that. We’ve been touched on all the [00:25:00] ideas, and there’s always a new idea every year we haven’t heard about, so we’re happy to hear about it and see how we can help make it as easy as possible for you to be successful. Yes. And have fun.
LaTonya: Reach out to us at The Rose, at [email protected].
Dorothy: Absolutely. [email protected].
LaTonya: Yes.
Dorothy: Okay. Easy. Thank you.
Shannon: Thank you.
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