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Join CCChampions for the
2017 March to Friendship!
Basketball and non-basketball friends getting together to sponsor friendships for all the newly diagnosed kids in 2017!

This year's total:
# of friendship moments sponsored: 141 & counting
​(our goal: 140)
March To Friendship 2017 on Crowdrise

 Start a team or Learn more
- click here

Join a team/Participate
- click your team in the Leaderboard to the right!
(if you're a basketball fan, you'll get your bracket after you donate)

Leaderboard:
(click your team below)

$8,000 Level (32 friendship moments!)
- Lex's Family & Friends (goal: $7,500)

$7,000 Level (28 friendship moments!)
​​​​- Kushner Family & Friends (goal: $5,600)

$5,000 Level (20 friendship moments!)
​​- Team USM (goal: $3,000)

$1,500 Level (6 friendship moments!)
​- Val's Family & Friends (goal: $1,500)
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- Jen Lutz's Family & Friends (goal: $500)

$1,000 Level (4 friendship moments!)
​​- Team Somers (goal: $500)
​​​- Brown School of Public Health (goal: $1,000)
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Jeff's Family and Friends (goal: $1,000)

$750 Level (3 friendship moments!)
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Izzy's Family & Friends (in honor of her friendship with Avery) (goal: $500)

$500 Level (2 friendship moments!)
​- Thompson & Knorr Families & Friends (goal: $500)
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- "The Tumornators" (led by Jenna Snyder, in honor of all her patients) (goal: $500)
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- Team Schlesinger / Turner / Feinerman (goal: $500)
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$250 Level (1 friendship moment!)
- Schell Games Family & Friends (goal: $500)
​​- Vic's Family & Friends (in honor of her friendship with Sydney) (goal: $500)
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- Copley's Family & Friends (in honor of her friendship with Angelika) (goal: $250)
​- Ash Team (goal: $250)
​- 'Merica (the McCoy Family Team) (goal: $500)
​- Team Denver (Sam Gilman's Team) (goal: $1,000)
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Beta Rho Pi (goal: $500)
​- Brian Sokolow's Friends & Family (goal: $250)
- Ashleen's Pittsburgh Pride

Almost 1 friendship...
​- University of Minnesota SPH (goal: $500)
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- Final 404 Error: Team Not Found (Zach Silverstein's team) (in honor of Professor Josiah Carberry) (goal: $500)
​- Ari & John's Team (goal: $250)
​- Cancer Crushers, led by Julie Baran (in honor of her friendship with Camden) (goal: $250)
​​- Pitt CCChamps (goal: $250)
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- Shirley McCormack's Team (goal: $250)
​- Moishe Madness (goal: $250)
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Ethan's Friends and Family (goal: $250)
​- Team Epic (goal: $250)
- Haley's Heroes (goal: $1,000)
- Premier Staffing, Inc. (goal: $250)
​- Matt's March to Friendship (in honor of his friendship with his good friend Blake) (goal: $250)
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​- Dante's Friends and Family
- Ally's Team (in honor of her friendship with Ja'Naya) (goal: $250)
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Team Maurer (goal: $250)
- Terrence's Friends, Family & Coworkers (goal: $250)
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- Aaron's Team (goal: $250)

Waiting to kick off...
​- Paulie Walnuts (Rebecca Knepp's Team) (goal: $500)
- Sami's Team in honor of her friendship with Jessica (goal: $250)

Celebrity Brackets
- Joe Block (broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Pirates) & CCChampions kid Sean!
​- Camden's Team (one of the kids in CCChampions!)

Don't see your team but still want to help? Click here and choose CCCHAMPIONS

A Brief History of the March to Friendship

Every year, CCChampions hosts the March to Friendship, a fundraiser inspired by people who wanted to channel the energy of March Madness for a good cause. What started as "The Charitable Bracket Competition," has now grown into something even bigger. 

"The Charitable Bracket Competition" began in 2013, with just a few teams of friends and family members donating the money they would have used as their buy-in to another March Madness bracket pool to help the kids in CCChampions instead. Not wanting to miss out on the chance to show off their basketball knowledge during the NCAA Tournament, their donations got them access to a CCChampions bracket pool. 

Since then, non-basketball fans have joined the March to Friendship too. Many people still host their basketball bracket pools with CCChampions, while many others form general fundraising teams instead. Together, all of us are helping CCChampions achieve its goal of sponsoring friendship moments for every single newly diagnosed kid in 2017!

By working together, families, friends, schools, and companies from across the country help support friendship moments for newly diagnosed kids in Pittsburgh. Every $250 that a team pools together sponsors a local child cancer patient to meet his or her inspirational role model.

In 2017 we need to create friendships for more kids than ever. CCChampions is beginning national expansion next year and our March to Friendship donors will be an essential part of that narrative. Throughout the year we will send updates of the friendship you helped create. 

Questions? Check out our FAQ's here. 

Ready to participate? Click here to create your team or join a team on the Leaderboard to the right! 

This year's March to Friendship brought to you by our Starting Five
Top performing teams from 2016
Point Guard
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Company that raised the most:
Menasha
Shooting Guard
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Family/Friends that raised the most:
Bryce's Family & Friends
Small Forward
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Company with the most donors:
Big Guy Boosters (The Grable Foundation)
Power Forward
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Family/friends with the most donors:
Brown School of Public Health
Center
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School that raised the most:
Team USM Wildcats

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