Local residents running marathon for Dana-Farber
By Canton CitizenOn April 21, six Canton residents are running to defy cancer as a member of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC) team in the 129th Boston Marathon. They include: Danny Berman, Jake Connolly, Andrew Kafka, Kristen Manning, Kelly Morrissey and Jake Murphy.
Along with more than 500 DFMC teammates from across the United States and around the world, they will run Massachusetts’ historic marathon route from Hopkinton to Boston to collectively raise $8.5 million for cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
This year marks the 36th annual running of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team. One hundred percent of the money raised will benefit Dana-Farber’s Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research, which supports promising science research in its earliest stages.
In 1990, Dana-Farber was among the first charity organizations to be recognized by the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A), which organizes the Boston Marathon. The DFMC team offers its members extensive fundraising support; access to a training program designed by 1976 Boston Marathon Men’s Open Division Champion Jack Fultz; Boston area training runs; exclusive pre-race and post-race amenities; and special recognition for the top fundraisers. DFMC runners who are not time-qualified for the Boston Marathon receive an invitational entry into the race.
Runners include cancer survivors and patients, and family and friends of those who have been affected by cancer. Each team member must fulfill a basic fundraising commitment. For invitational runners, the minimum commitment is $10,000, and for those who obtained their own race entry, the minimum commitment is $4,000.
Since its inception in 1990, the DFMC team has raised more than $132 million for the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research. Dana-Farber trustees J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver founded the program in 1987 to honor Mrs. Weaver’s mother, Claudia Adams Barr, who lost her battle with cancer 30 years earlier. To contribute to the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team on behalf of one of the Canton runners, go to tinyurl.com/dfmc-support and type in the runner’s first and last name under “Search for a Participant.”
For more information about this year’s DFMC team, visit RunDFMC.org or contact the team office at 617-632-1970 or dfmc@dfci.harvard.edu. Follow DFMC on Facebook at facebook/marathonchallenge and on X at #RunDFMC.
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on Mar 13 2025. Filed under Featured story.
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