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Farmingale Students Participate in St. Baldrick's Day
The fundraising event, held around St. Patrick's Day, benefits cancer research.
Students from Farmingdale's helped raise $80,000 in the St. Baldrick's fundraiser at Jackie Reilly's in Bethpage on Sunday.
The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a charity committed to funding research to find cures for childhood cancers. It began back on March 17, 2000, when executives John Bender, Tim Kenny and Enda McDonnell turned their industry's St. Patrick's Day party into a head-shaving event to benefit kids with cancer. They planned to raise "$17,000 on the 17th" and instead raised $104,000, according to the history statement on the foundation's website.
The movement grew into a world-wide fundraising program for childhood cancer research, and today the St. Baldrick's Foundation funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization minus the U.S. government.
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Since 2000, more than 147,000 volunteers, including 12,000 women, have shaved their heads to raise $90 million for life-saving research.
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