Successful Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign Celebrated

July marked the conclusion of our breast cancer awareness campaign, and by any measure it was a great success. We are proud to be a part of a community that embraces an important cause and is willing to not only raise funds with their donations, but awareness - by wearing pink and donning pink whistles - for a disease that strikes so many families.

Ump-Attire.com staff welcomes Amanda Caffe from Louisville's Susan G. Komen affiliate. From left: Sherry Spalding, Emily Crabtree, Amanda Caffe, Jim Kirk, Anessa Arehart, Amanda Tricase, Jeanne Nelson.

To celebrate the campaign's success, we invited Amanda Caffe from the Louisville affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure to join us for lunch at the office, where we presented her with a final check totaling $6,420 in funds raised, collected through the sale of over 1,000 pink umpire shirts and 1,500 pink whistles!

After touring the warehouse and enjoying a catered lunch, Ms. Caffe explained to staff how the money our customers helped us raise goes for research and to help women in the community who are in need of life-saving screenings, treatment options and extended care.

Jim presents Ms. Caffe with a check  to Komen for the Cure.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Dalco Athletic, manufacturer of the pink umpire shirt, who donated over $1,000 of the above total, and to each of you who helped spread the word about BLUE for Pink: Umpires Against Breast Cancer and Blow the Whistle Against Breast Cancer!

With your help, we exceeded our original fundraising goal of $5,000 and raised significant awareness within the officiating community.

I am personally grateful to all our staff. Most notable include Anessa and Jeanne who spearheaded that we do a campaign involving the sale of pink items, Sherry who organized the joint effort between us and Komen and served as liason, Amanda who provided her magic touch to all of the campaign's literature and Facebook efforts and to those umpires and officials who provided input into our campaigns from help designing the logo to the shirt and more (you know who you are). It was a superb team effort all the way around.