Thanks to the support of so many individuals, corporations, and foundations throughout the Valley, Griffin Hospital is delighted to announce the successful completion of the Campaign for Breast Wellness.  With your help, we reached our goal of raising $1 million to create the Hewitt Center for Breast Wellness. We thank everyone who supported this important initiative.  To read more about the Campaign for Breast Wellness, click here.

Thanks to the generosity and help of so many individuals, companies, clubs, churches, foundations,, schools, and municipalities throughout the Valley and beyond, we are only $40,098.94 away from achieving our goal of raising $1 million.  We are so close, and we never would have come this far without our community's support. 

Congratulations go out to the Campaign for  Breast Wellness Committee for being selected as the 2011 winner of the Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce Leadership in Healthcare Award. 

This is a well-deserved honor for an outstanding group of volunteers whose passion, dedication, hard work and creativity have not only raised close to $1 million for the Hewitt Center for Breast Wellness, but which have also inspired an entire community to come together around an important cause. 

We are grateful to the Healthcare Council for this nomination, and of course, to the women and men who have spent two years with us to help achieve the goal. 

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From banks to beauty parlors, from fire departments to football teams, people of all ages throughout the Valley came together around a cause, and their fundraising has truly made a difference.  Your gifts - large and small - have now added up to $48,000, and gifts are still coming in!

This accomplishment is all the more significant considering the fact that most gifts to the Valley Goes Pink effort were under $25!  The entire Griffin Family extends thanks to all supporters for your creativity,...

We are thrilled to announce that Liz and Fred Smith of Ansonia are the happy owners of a brand new i-pad after playing the Valley Goes Pink Scanvenger Hunt.  Many thanks to the Smiths and so many others who scanned codes in the participating stores throughout the Valley!

Play The Valley Goes Pink Scanvenger Hunt 10/14-10/22 with Griffin Hospital, Hersam Acorn papers, and nine Valley businesses.  Stop into the following stores and restaurants, scan the QR code on display with your smartphone, and you'll automatically be entered to win an Apple iPad or a $100 Gift Certificate.  Visit http://acorn-online.com/valley-goes-pink to learn all about how it works!!

THANKS TO OUR SCANVENGER PARTICIPANTS...

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VERY PINK, from our perspective here at Griffin...

Here are some more inspiring stories from our community partners in pink!  Thanks to all for your enthusiasm, your imagination, and your commitment to making a difference locally by donating to the Hewitt Center for Breast Wellness:

From October 17-21, Shelton Intermediate School will host five different fundraisers, all hosted by the SIS Teen Community Outreach Program.  Students will be selling pink dog tags, lollipops, pink donuts,...

Each week, we at the Development Fund hear wonderful new stories about how folks all over the Valley have decided to help Paint the Town Pink!

Mark your calendars for the following community and hospital happenings:

This week (10/17-21) at Griffin, staff on 2 North are hosting a bake sale, two raffles, and they're selling pink paraphernalia.  The raffles include a beautiful hand crocheted afghan and a kindle!  Other items for sale include pink calendars, pink duckies, pink wristbands,...

All of us at the Griffin Hospital Development Fund would like to congratulate all the Women Making a Difference in the Valley Nominees -- especially the four uncommon women who've been personally involved with the Campaign for Breast Wellness: 

Joyce Barcley, Campaign Committee member and Housy One-Miler Swim Committee member Daun Barrett, Director of the Valley Parish Nurse program at Griffin Hospital and Campaign committee member Kate Cosgrove, Founder, Women's Health Initiative...

It's October, and that means  the Valley is turning pink!  We are looking forward to proclamations declaring October The Valley Goes Pink month.  Many thanks to the Mayors and First Selectment of Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Naugatuck, Oxford, and Shelton for helping us to kick off the month in style.  Check out your local papers and our Valley Goes Pink page for the calendar of events.  Also, get ready to Dine for Wellness at Wellington's on October 3rd in Shelton.  Our committee members will be...