Last September, I was sitting around thinking about ways to impact my community with my talents. During this thought, I happened to have a discussion with my friend Donna who also owns the largest Jazzercise center in my region. The two of us came up with the idea to do a Jazzercise event benefiting the local Susan G. Komen For The Cure affiliate. Two heads became four, and Dona, Judy (our district manager), Terri (instructor extraordinaire), and I soon were on a five week mission to pull of the Jazzercise For The Cure event. The event was a hit with, founder and CEO Judi Sheppard Missett and Kenny Harvey as our special guests and more than 350 participants raising nearly $50,000 for the fight against breast cancer.
This year we are motivated to build upon last year's events. We started meeting a few weeks ago, five months before the event as opposed to five weeks! Our first step was to focus on ways to improve the event. Once we made a list of improvements, we focused on who the event would benefit in 2007. This week we met with eight charitable organizations in our district and learned more about their purpose and impact on the community and the world. I was impressed and in awe of these organizations.
Choosing just one organization as the beneficiary of the Jazzercise event will be hard, but I am confident that we can't really make a wrong choice.
What I love about this event (and I will tell you more about the event and the planning process as we move forward) is that we really do capitalize on what Jazzercise embodies, fitness, friendship, and fun, to raise funds to help a worthy cause.
Look for our progress on Thursdays (aka service day).
-RXW
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