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Welcome to the March to Friendship 2018!
Creating special friendships for kids who have cancer

Ally Steven's Team (in honor of her friendship with Ja'Naya!)

Amit's Friends and Family

Anya's Army (Dana's Team)

Ari & John's Team

Ash Team

Ashleen Wilwohl's Friends and Family

AT&T Sportsnet

Brady Sheehan's Team

Brian Sokolow's Friends and Family

Brown University School of Public Health

Buddy Brackett

CELEBRITY BRACKET: CCChampions kid Sean, and Joe Block (Pittsburgh Pirates Broadcaster)

CliftonLarsonAllen

Collier's Pittsburgh

Copley Fry's Family and Friends (in honor of her friendship with Angelika)

Dana's Gold-en Hoopers!!

Dante O'Connell's Friends and Family

Effectively Wild listeners

Epic Team

Ethan Hammerman's Friends & Family

Grable Globetrotters

Fragasso Advisors

Haley Robert's Heroes

Hibal-la So Hard Bracket-For the Kids!

Jeff Lipton's Family and Friends

Jen Lutz's Family & Friends

Jenna Snyder and the Tumornators

Julie Baran's Cancer Crushers (in honor of her friendship with Camden)

Kline, Keppel, Koryak CPA

Lex's Family and Friends

Li Yi's Friends & Family (in honor of his friendship with Finn!)

MassMutual Pittsburgh

Matt Galambos's Team (in honor of his friendship with Colten)

Matt Johnson's Team (in honor of his friendship with Blake)

McCoy Family's Team 'Merica

MCPASS the Ball (Marietta College Physician Assistant Student Society)

Mike's Magical Unicorns

Moishe Madness

Otterbein University

Pitt CCChampions (University of Pittsburgh student group)

Pitt Student EMS

PJ Demeo's Friends & Family (in honor of his friendship with Bryce!)

Premier Staffing Friends and Family

Rebecca Knepp's Paulie Walnuts

RoadRunner Recycling

Robin & Madeline's Family & Friends

Sam Gilman's Team Denver

Sami Wilczynski's Team (in honor of her friendship with Jessica)

Schell Games Friends and Family

Team Schlesinger, Turner, & Feinerman

Team Soulful Flow & Christ Church for #CLE

The Toon Squad (led by Terrence McAllister)

Thompson & Knorr Families & Friends

University of Minnesota SPH

USM's Team

Val's Family and Friends

Vic Ondo's Family & Friends

Zach Silverstein's Final 404: Error Team Not Found

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Are you making a March Madness bracket this year?

Make sure you're helping a kid with cancer by making your bracket charitable.


The March to Friendship is "The Charitable Bracket Competition."

Every year, people from across the country join & form teams with their coworkers, friends, and classmates. Instead of using their March Madness pools to gamble, participants and teams make brackets and donate the pot, or split it 50/50.

Every $250 a team pools together sponsors a friendship for a newly diagnosed child in CCChampions. At the end of the year, you even get a personalized scrapbook sharing the friendship moments that you and your team helped create!

We can help you with your brackets & donations, or you can do it on your own.

Ready to get started?

Sign up now or learn more about getting your office or team involved.

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or reach out to us with any questions!

About the Nonprofit You're Helping

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CCChampions is a Pittsburgh- and Cleveland- based nonprofit that helps kids with cancer by asking,
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"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Whatever that is (a video game designer, a ballerina, a chef, an athlete, etc.), we find an inspirational role model who can be a friend every step of the way.

CCChampions has created friendships for over 100 newly diagnosed children in our region. We've matched kids with 21 different types of professions that they want to be when they grow up.

Goal for 2018

Let's raise $55,000

We can create 220 new Friendship Moments

​Together,
 we can make sure every newly diagnosed kid in Pittsburgh (& soon Cleveland!) is sponsored by teams in the March to Friendship!

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Timeline

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February 5th - March 11th
     Join the March to Friendship

March 11th 
    Selection Sunday -- brackets are live

March 15th
    Deadline to submit brackets

March 1st to March 31st
    Donate & sponsor the kids!

Ready to get started?
Sign up now or learn more about getting your office or team involved.

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Highlights from 2017 March to Friendship


​Last year's bracket competition had 600+ donors from 33 different states and 4 countries.


We raised a total of $35,962 and sponsored 143 friendship moments for newly diagnosed kids with role models. 

Top Performing Teams: (Starting Five)


Company that raised the most:
Schell Games


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​Family/Friends that raised the most:
Izzy Family & Friends

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School that raised the most:
Team USM Wildcats
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​Company with the most donors:
Brown School of Public Health
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Friends & Family with the most donors:
Friends of Soulful Yoga Flow (led by Shirley McCormack)

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THANK YOU to our Corporate Sponsor:
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