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Show Us Your BRA! ™ 2010

THANK YOU!

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A toast to all BRAtistes past and present

Photo courtesy Dani Fine Photography


THANK YOU to all who came, volunteered and supported Show Us Your BRA!™2010 through in-kind, cash and gift certificate donations and to our loyal and creative BRAtistes who never fail to amaze us. With everyone’s support we raised over $30,000 for underserved women in Massachusetts who seek post-mastectomy breast forms and bras.

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Chapin Gilmore-Strickland receives the First Place award for

Spiritual Warrior “Weakened but never broken.

Photo courtesy Dani Fine Photography

2010 BRAtistes

Sarah B. Bernhardt and Missy Holmes - Shelly Bird (Third Place, September 2011) - Molly Cantor - Edite Cunhã - Barbara Cymrot (November 2011) - Heather Davis (Honorable Mention) - Linda Devine - Leslie di Curcio - Alexis Doshas (2007 creation) - Angela Fina - Chapin Gilmore-Strickland (First Place, July 2011) - Carol Gobin Grinnell - Christine Hanley - Jacquelyn Lucchesi - Robert R. Lussier - Babs Mayer - Kathleen M. Morawiec - Pamela Roberts (Honorable Mention, Calendar Cover and October 2011) - Helen Schaefer and Jane Martino (March 2011) - Ingrid Shockey - Flo Simeone - Lisa Tennyson - Daphne  Thompson-Addabbo - Joyce Utting Schutter (Second Place, August 2011) - Hallie Walker - Amy L. Wasserman - Laura Yarbrough - Susan Zachary (Honorable Mention and People’s Choice Award)

2010 Vacation Getaway & Gift Certificate Donors

Charles Bowles - Eight Jarvis Restaurant, Holyoke - A.O. White, East Longmeadow - Bill Brough Jewelers, Northampton - Cathy Cross, Northampton - The Delaney House - Eileen Fisher, Northampton - Elegant Affairs, Springfield - Gazebo, Northampton - Jackson & Connor, Northampton - J. Rich Clothing for Men, Northampton - Cowls Building Supply, Inc. & Jenny Lind, Amherst - Lattitude, West Springfield - Mulino’s Restaurant, Northampton - PeopleBank, Holyoke - Paul and Elizabeth’s Natural Food Restaurant, Northampton - Skera Gallery, Northampton - Spoleto, Northampton & beyond - Sylvester’s & Roberto’s Restaurants, Northampton - Thornes Marketplace, Northampton - Yes! Computers, Northampton

To date, Show Us Your BRA! ™ has auctioned more than 700 bra creations, produced nine calendars and raised funds that have helped hundreds of women regain their sense of beauty and self-assurance after breast cancer surgery.  Ticket sales and auction proceeds raised at the Gala benefit The Breast Form Fund, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides post-mastectomy prostheses and bras to underserved women in Massachusetts, helping breast cancer survivors look and feel beautiful.