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Richard Robinson’s successful
“Bringing Sexy Back” campaign
The Canadian Breast Cancer
Network celebrated great success
with renowned Canadian fashion
designer Richard Robinson and the
“Bringing Sexy Back” campaign. Robinson’s
donation of an original pink gown was in
honour of his 40 th anniversary in fashion
design, and in memory of his mother-inlaw
who recently passed away with breast
cancer.
The dress was the featured article for the
CBCN 4 th Annual online auction during
the Breast Cancer Awareness month of
October. The original Bringing Sexy Back
fashion show took place at the Conference
for Young Women with Breast Cancer in
November 2007. Funds raised through the
auction of the dress will contribute to the
next Conference for Young Women with
Breast Cancer.
When Richard Robinson offered to donate
original design young women with breast
cancer across the country voted on the
style; traditional, sexy or edgy, and “sexy”
won!
The successful bidder for the dress was
Carmela Toscano of Orleans. •
Louise Robinson; renowned designer Richard Robinson; Richard Robinson
house model Kadijha modeling the pink gown; CBCN executive director Jackie
Manthorne at the October 28, 2009 Bringing Sexy Back in Person cocktail party
at Arc the Hotel in Ottawa
Volunteers Needed at CBCN
For the CBCN Office in Ottawa
Planned Giving Assistant: Send out brochures for In
Memorium Giving to Funeral Homes across the country, track
brochures sent and call for re-orders. Someone good at details
and who likes to talk with people on the telephone.
Online Auction Assistants: Several people to start in January
to research new donor categories and update existing donor lists.
Auction assistants are creative, like to do web research, and are
detail oriented with an excellent command of English.
Fundraising Intern: Marketing or business student who is
articulate and presents well to corporate world, understands the
importance of research for the right ask to the right person at the
right time.
Volunteers nationally
Researcher / writers needed for website update in preparation for
migration to our new website. Web updaters are assigned a section
according to their interests and/or background in the subject.
They verify the material we have is correct and that links work,
analyze the section and compare to other groups nationally and
internationally for best practices, look at gaps in the information,
research to find credible and appropriate material to make their
section the best it can be, and finally look for illustrations or
suggest sources. Researcher / writers have to be serious about
their time commitment and meeting deadlines, meticulous about
sources, thorough, and have an excellent commend of either
English or French languages, written and spoken.
For any of these volunteer positions, contact Mona Forrest at
mforrest@cbcn.ca
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