At Walton Gas, our employees are supporting breast health one step — one mile — at a time. A team representing our company and sister organization, Walton EMC, has walked in the 30-mile Georgia 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer annually since 2010. Securing pledges for every mile completed, our Pink Power Teams have raised more than $200,000.
Walton Gas supplements our employees’ charitable efforts by sponsoring the annual fundraising event. That has added another $38,000 to money that It’s The Journey, producer of the Walk, can use to fund grants that pay for breast health and breast cancer programs throughout the state.
As a subsidiary of electric cooperative Walton EMC, caring for community is a natural part of who we are as a company.
Over the years, we’ve seen first hand how these grants benefit our customers and communities through breast health and breast cancer programs that focus on screening, diagnostics, genetic counseling and testing, support services and research in Georgia. So when Kim Goff, executive director of It’s The Journey, asked for our help with a special project last year, we enthusiastically agreed to go the extra mile.
New Name
What Kim needed was help launching the event’s new name. After 15 years at the Atlanta 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer, it was being renamed the Georgia 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer. Walton Gas stepped up as the official rebranding sponsor.
Walton Gas employees Savannah Chandler and Kathy Ivie were on hand at the walk’s 2017 closing ceremonies to help Kim and other volunteers unveil the refreshed name and a new logo.
“We wanted the event name to better represent the scale of what we do and the fact that our grants serve people in over 100 counties in Georgia,” Kim said. Since 2003, the 2-Day Walk has raised more than $14 million and awarded 300 grants to breast cancer organizations in Georgia.
More than 10,000 Georgians are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. — National Cancer Institute
Two Days, 30 miles
The new name debuts with the 16th annual walk, which steps off on Sept. 29–30. Walkers will individually raise funds before striding through a 20-mile walk on Saturday and a 10-mile walk on Sunday. Members of Walton’s Pink Power team invite our customers and friends to join us as participants in this year’s event. Registration is now open at 2daywalk.org. All money raised by the Georgia 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer stays in our local communities.