An Update on Funding Runway Families

By Olivia Achtmeyer Boger | December 8, 2020

Funding our Runway families is the primary focus of our organization. We believe there are tangible ways to make a difference in the lives of children who have lost a mother to breast cancer by paying for wrap-around services for the family. Because of the incredible support of those in attendance at our Virtual Runway Show in October, we raised $293K! Because of you, we can continue to assist families and children who have applied to our Family Grants Program. Most recently, a family who applied for a grant, is made up of an 11-year-old girl and her maternal grandparents.…

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2020 Runway Show

By Lydia Keller | November 14, 2020

To our donors, models, board members, sponsors, and the entire Runway community — we could not do our annual show without you!

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Meet the Models: Dorothy Burnham

By Olivia Achtmeyer Boger | September 30, 2020

It was May of 2018, and Dorothy was nursing her infant while her two-year-old was playing with toy trucks at her feet. Dorothy noticed a lumpy area in her left breast. Totally surrounded by all things baby, and having experienced lots of complications nursing her first child, Dorothy assumed the lumpy area had to do with blocked milk ducts, mastitis, or some other breastfeeding condition. 

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September: The Fashion Behind the Runway

By Olivia Achtmeyer Boger | September 22, 2020

On a warm July night in 2007, I was at Fenway Park, watching the Red Sox with my friend Taylor Blaisdell, who owned a boutique in Concord, MA, chatting about a way to honor my mom’s breast cancer journey. Taylor shared an idea about a fundraiser fashion show she had been part of recently, and we started brainstorming what it could look like to honor women and families experiencing breast cancer through a fashion show format in Concord. The Runway Show was born that night, and the rest is history. However, the real story began years earlier when I had…

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Meet the Alumni Models: Linda Phelan

By Caroline O'Donnell | September 21, 2020

Linda Phelan
survivor since: 2015
first year walking: 2016

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