Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test

Hello September!!! Breast Cancer Awareness Month is right around the corner, but we have lots of ways you can support earlier.org and critical breast cancer research this month. Join us at one of our exciting events in September.

Visit earlier.org/events for all of the details and to purchase tickets/sponsorships.

Registration is OPEN for CYCLEBAR GREENSBORO CYCLEGIVES. Join us on Saturday, September 7 for an energetic indoor cycling ride to raise funding for critical breast cancer research.
Registration: Scan the QR code or visit - https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/CyclebarGreensboroCycleGives
CYCLEBAR Greensboro - 2105 W. Cornwallis Dr, Suite E

Since it's International Dog Day, we had to let you know about our Paws Down cutest event for earlier.org ~ the Doxie Derby and Family Festival presented by Lomax Home Team Realtor. Join us at First National Bank Field | Greensboro Grasshoppers for all the FUN on Sunday, September 29. For tickets, scan the QR code or visit https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/doxiederby24/index.html

A tennis clinic, a visit from tennis pro-Jamie Murray, and a delicious lunch from Covelli Enterprises/Panera Bread. Thank you USTA North Carolina! Take It On The Rise For Ta-Tas was AMAZING.

Save the Date and join us at Cyclebar Greensboro (2105 W. Cornwallis Dr, Suite E) for CycleGives on Saturday, September 7. It’s an energetic indoor cycling ride to raise funding for critical breast cancer research. Registration coming soon!!!

Four Bestselling Authors... One AMAZING event benefiting earlier.org. Join us for Toast to the Ta-Tas on Friday, September 27 at High Point Country Club Inc with NY Times Best-Selling Authors - Kristy Woodson Harvey, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry - Patti Callahan. For tickets or sponsorships, please visit https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/toasttothetatashpcc/index.html

It’s your chance to see ALL of the FAB FOUR together and enjoy afternoon beverages and bites. Each author will be signing select books at the event, which will be available for purchase that day courtesy of The Country Bookshop with proceeds benefiting earlier.org.

We can do better than this for women and men of all ages. There is a window of opportunity for a test that would offer earlier detection, thereby changing the picture of breast cancer treatments and prognosis. Earlier detection may prevent invasive surgery, minimize treatment and dramatically increase survival chances.

Join earlier.org in our mission to identify a new and innovative biological test to detect breast cancer far earlier than is now possible. Donate today or join us at one or our amazing events ~ earlier.org.

The Doxie Derby and Family Festival presented by Lomax Home Team Realtor is Sunday, September 29 at First National Bank Field. It's such a fun way to raise funds for critical breast cancer research. Get your advance tickets today and join us for all the FUN ~ Dachshund Races, Dachshund Costume Contest, Vendors, Ballpark Food, Family Games, Photo Booth, Balloon Artist/Magician, and more!!! Scan the QR code or visit - https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/doxiederby24/index.html

Today is National Book Lovers Day and we have FOUR amazing authors joining us Friday, September 27 for Toast to the Ta-Tas to raise funding for critical breast cancer research. And we LOVE the Fab Four: Kristy Woodson Harvey, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry - Patti Callahan. So all you book lovers, go get your tickets (or sponsorships) ---> scan the QR code or visit https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/toasttothetatashpcc/index.html

Our signature event - the Gathering of Friends!!! Join us to raise funds for critical breast cancer research. The Dinner is October 9 with former Major League Baseball Player and 3-time World Series Champion, Darryl Strawberry, at the High Point Country Club. Our Luncheon is October 16 with critically acclaimed actress and New York Times Bestselling Author, Annabelle Gurwitch, at the Sheraton Greensboro. For complete details, sponsorships, and tickets, please visit earlier.org/events or scan the QR codes.

Two weeks until TAKE IT ON THE RISE FOR TA-TAS and we just have a few spots left. So don't miss out... Register today and join us for an On-Court Clinic led by one of our local tennis teaching professionals on Tuesday, August 20 at Wake Forest Tennis Complex. Followed by lunch provided by Panera Bread - Covelli Enterprises. Your registration includes a commemorative event item plus a ticket to the Tuesday afternoon (8/20/24) Winston-Salem Open session.
Registration ~ https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/takeitontherise24/index.html or scan the QR code.
All proceeds from this event support critical breast cancer research and earlier.org - Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test!!
USTA North Carolina

Tonight’s First Monday Speaker Series at WhiteStone in Greensboro was our own Martha Kaley!!! And one lucky resident won a set of books from the authors who are joining us for Toast to the Ta-Tas on September 27.

TBT to August 1st last year for our amazing event in Atlantic Beach with Kristy Woodson Harvey, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry - Patti Callahan. Take it from us...the FAB FOUR is AMAZING!! So join earlier.org and the Fab Four for Toast to the Ta-Tas on Friday, September 27 at High Point Country Club Inc. Here's the link for complete details and to purchase tickets or sponsorships ----> https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/toasttothetatashpcc/index.html

Just 3 weeks until TAKE IT ON THE RISE FOR TA-TAS!!! Register today and join us for an On-Court Clinic led by one of our local tennis teaching professionals on Tuesday, August 20 at Wake Forest Tennis Complex. Followed by lunch provided by Panera Bread - Covelli Enterprises. Your registration includes a commemorative event item plus a ticket to the Tuesday afternoon (8/20/24) Winston-Salem Open session.
Registration ~ https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/takeitontherise24/index.html or scan the QR code.
All proceeds from this event support critical breast cancer research and earlier.org - Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test!!
USTA North Carolina

Critically acclaimed actress & New York Times Bestselling Author, Annabelle Gurwitch, is our keynote speaker for the Gathering of Friends Luncheon on Wednesday, October 16 at Sheraton Greensboro Hotel at Four Seasons. Join us and help us fund critical breast cancer research. Sponsorships and tickets available ---> please scan the QR code or visit https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/gatheringoffriends2024luncheon/index.html

Annabelle Gurwitch was the long-time host of TBS’s Dinner & a Movie and television viewers remember her memorable appearances on programs including, Better Things, Boston Legal, Seinfeld, Dexter, Murphy Brown, and as the host of the sustainability series, WA$TED, on The Planet Green Network.

Join us for an On-Court Clinic led by one of our local tennis teaching professionals at TAKE IT ON THE RISE FOR TA-TAS on Tuesday, August 20 at Wake Forest Tennis Complex. Followed by lunch provided by Panera Bread - Covelli Enterprises. Your registration includes a commemorative event item plus a ticket to the Tuesday afternoon (8/20/24) Winston-Salem Open session.
Registration ~ https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/takeitontherise24/index.html or scan the QR code.
All proceeds from this event support critical breast cancer research and earlier.org - Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test!!
USTA North Carolina

The "Olympic Torch Run" was held today at WhiteStone here in Greensboro, NC! Our founder and rockstar, Martha Kaley, was one of the torch runners. Go Martha!!!

Former Major League All-Star & 3-Time World Series Champion, Darryl Strawberry, is our keynote speaker for the Gathering of Friends Dinner!!! Join us Wednesday, October 9 at High Point Country Club Inc. For complete details, sponsorships and tickets, please scan the QR code or visit: https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/gatheringoffriends2024dinner/index.html

Toast to the Ta-Tas is Friday, September 27 at High Point Country Club Inc with NY Times Best-Selling Authors - Kristy Woodson Harvey, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry. For tickets or sponsorships, please visit
https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/toasttothetatashpcc/index.html

It’s your chance to see ALL of the FAB FOUR together and enjoy afternoon beverages and bites. Each author will be signing select books at the event, which will be available for purchase that day courtesy of The Country Bookshop with proceeds benefiting earlier.org.

Since its founding in 1995, earlier.org – Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test® has worked and focused solely on the earlier detection of breast cancer, ideally a biological test, which has the potential to reduce or prevent invasive surgery, minimize treatment, and dramatically increase survival rates.

Toast to the Ta-Tas! Friends & Fiction social for breast cancer

1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. This is the present, but it need not be the future. We can do better than this. We must continue to fund seed grants to researchers who are seeking to identify an earlier biological detection test for breast cancer.

Join earlier.org in our mission to identify a new and innovative biological test to detect breast cancer far earlier than is now possible. Donate or join us at one of our amazing events ~ earlier.org.

Meet Patti Callahan Henry - one of the four New York Times Bestselling Authors who will be joining us for Toast to the Ta-Tas on September 27 to raise funding for critical breast cancer research.

Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times, Globe and Mail, and USA Today bestselling author of seventeen novels, including her newest, The Secret Book of Flora Lea. She’s also a podcast host of original content for her novels, Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis.

She is the recipient of The Christy Award “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast. Patti also was a contributor to the monthly life lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. She’s published in numerous anthologies, articles, and short story collections, including an Audible Original about Florence Nightingale, titled Wild Swan narrated by the Tony Award winner, Cynthia Erivo.

For all the details and to purchase tickets or sponsorships for Toast to the Ta-Tas featuring Kristy Woodson Harvey, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry, please visit
https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/toasttothetatashpcc/index.html

Meet Kristin Harmel - one of the four New York Times Bestselling Authors who will be joining us for Toast to the Ta-Tas on September 27 to raise funding for critical breast cancer research.

Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, and #1 international bestselling author of The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker’s Wife, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and are sold all over the world.

Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s. In addition to a long magazine writing career, primarily writing and reporting for PEOPLE magazine (as well as articles published in numerous other magazines, including American Baby, Men’s Health, Woman’s Day, and more), Kristin was also a frequent contributor to the national television morning show The Daily Buzz. She sold her first novel in 2004, and it debuted in February 2006.

For all the details and to purchase tickets or sponsorships for Toast to the Ta-Tas featuring Kristy Woodson Harvey, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry, please visit https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/toasttothetatashpcc/index.html

Everybody needs to Congratulate Melissa Roth on being 5 years Cancer Free!🎉 She celebrated her birthday and being Cancer Free with a Raffle. She presented EARLIER.ORG WITH THE PROCEEDS. Melissa Roth and Kim Parker have Guys and Dolls Salon. In Kernersville and they support earlier.org with Pink Hair in October!❤❤Thank you❤❤

Meet Mary Kay Andrews - one of the four New York Times Bestselling Authors who will be joining us for Toast to the Ta-Tas on September 27 to raise funding for critical breast cancer research.

Mary Kay Andrews is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels. A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, she earned a B.A. in journalism from The University of Georgia. After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she spent the final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction.

Her first novel, Every Crooked Nanny, was published in 1992 by HarperCollins. She went on to write ten critically acclaimed mysteries under her real name, Kathy Hogan Trocheck. In 2002, she assumed the pen name Mary Kay Andrews with the publication of Savannah Blues. In 2006, Hissy Fit became her first New York Times bestseller, followed by fifteen more New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestsellers. To date, her novels have been published in German, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech and Japanese. Her latest novel, Summer at the Saint, was released May 7, 2024.

For all the details and to purchase tickets or sponsorships for Toast to the Ta-Tas featuring Kristy Woodson Harvey, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry, please visit https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/toasttothetatashp

Happy Pub Day to Kristy Woodson Harvey! You can meet Kristy and the rest of the Fab Four at Toast to the Ta-Tas on Friday, September 27 at High Point Country Club Inc. Kristy Woodson Harvey, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry - Patti Callahan will be sharing fascinating insider talk about publishing and writing and discussing their newest releases. They will be signing select books provided by The Country Bookshop with proceeds from your purchases benefiting earlier.org.
For tickets and sponsorships, please visit
https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/toasttothetatashpcc/index.html
Toast to the Ta-Tas benefits earlier.org Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test

Happy National Dachshund Day!!! We have a FUN, FUN, FUN event that celebrates Dachshunds!!! The Doxie Derby and Family Festival presented by Lomax Home Team Realtor is Sunday, September 29 at First National Bank Field in Greensboro!!! Join us for all the fun - Dachshund Races, Dachshund Costume Contest, Ballpark Food, Vendors, Family Games, and More. For Race Registration and Tickets -- scan the QR code or visit https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/doxiederby24/index.html

Just 2 months until TAKE IT ON THE RISE FOR TA-TAS!! Join us on Tuesday, August 20 at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex for an On-Court Clinic led by one of our local tennis teaching professionals. Followed by lunch provided by Panera Bread - Covelli Enterprises. Your registration includes a commemorative event item plus a ticket to the Tuesday afternoon (8/20/24) Winston-Salem Open session.
Registration ~https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/takeitontherise24/index.html or scan the QR code.
All proceeds from this event support critical breast cancer research and earlier.org - Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test!!
USTA North Carolina

Meet Kristy Woodson Harvey - one of the four New York Times Bestselling Authors who will be joining us for Toast to the Ta-Tas on September 27 to raise funding for critical breast cancer research.

"Kristy Woodson Harvey is the New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of eleven novels including A Happier Life, The Summer of Songbirds, and The Peachtree Bluff Series. Many of her books have been optioned or are in development for television and film and have received numerous accolades, including Good Morning America’s Buzz Pick, Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Reads, Katie Couric’s Featured Books, and Joanna Garcia Swisher’s The Happy Place Read. Kristy is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize.

A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cm laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s school of journalism, her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Southern Living, Parade, Traditional Home, USA TODAY, and many more. She also holds a master’s in English, with a concentration in multicultural and transnational literature.

Kristy is the cocreator and cohost of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction with fellow New York Times Bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry. She is also the co-founder of the interiors site Design Chic, with her mom, Beth Woodson.

She lives on the North Carolina coast with her husband, son, and dog, Salt, where she is (always!) working on her next novel."
Source - kristywoodsonharvey.com

For all the details and to purchase tickets or sponsorships for Toast to the Ta-Tas featuring Kristy Woodson Harvey, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry, please visit https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/toasttothetatashpcc/index.html

PS - The Launch of A Happier Life is tonight (June 19) at 7pm EST on Friends and Fiction Facebook and YouTube - https://www.facebook.com/events/1645842529556207

You can meet FOUR New York Times Best Selling Authors and the co-founders of Friends And Fiction at Toast to the Ta-Tas benefiting earlier.org Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test!!! Join us on Friday, September 27 at High Point Country Club Inc. Kristy Woodson Harvey, Kristin Harmel, Mary Kay Andrews, and Patti Callahan Henry - Patti Callahan are joining us to raise funding for critical research to identify an earlier biological detection test for breast cancer. Get your tickets today ~ https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/toasttothetatashpcc/index.html
Sponsorships available ~ contact Leslie Conway [email protected] for the details.

Elevate your game at TAKE IT ON THE RISE FOR TA-TAS on Tuesday, August 20 at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex. Register today and join us for an On-Court Clinic led by one of our local tennis teaching professionals. Followed by lunch provided by Panera Bread - Covelli Enterprises. Your registration includes a commemorative event item plus a ticket to the Tuesday afternoon (8/20/24) -Salem Open session.

Registration ~ https://earlierorg.salsalabs.org/takeitontherise24/index.html or scan the QR code.
All proceeds from this event support critical breast cancer research and earlier.org - Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test!!
USTA North Carolina