Pink Together Giveaway: Celebrate Hope During Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This giveaway is now closed thank you to everyone who entered and shared their stories.  Congratulations to  JC, comment #3 who said, "like Pink Together on Facebook"

Breast cancer is one disease that has really touched my life.  My mom was diagnosised as we were in the mist of planning my wedding and is a breast cancer survivor of over ten years.  My Grandma and Great Aunts also had breast cancer and some of you may recall the a few months ago I lost a sorority sister to it.  It is a terrible disease, but now we can all  find hope and be inspired by taking part of fifth annual Pink Together campaign. 

At PinkTogether.com you can connect online with other people who have been touched by breast cancer.  You can share your own story, be inspired by other member's personal journeys, and read messages of hope.  It's strength in numbers and also a way for you to help raise real money toward the cause. 

For each Message of Hope that is sent to someone who has shared their story on PinkTogether.com, General Mills will donate $1 to the Komen organization (up to $25,000) during October. That's in addition to a $2 million donation General Mills is making to the Komen organization!  General Mills will also be turning the packaging of participating products pink in recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month this month. So be on the look out for pink all over your grocery store shelves!

The most exciting part is that for the first time at PinkTogether.com you can help choose how $1 million of this donation will be shared between two important Komen programs: the Treatment and Assistance Program, which assists women in securing care they otherwise may not be able to afford, and Prevention Research, which helps unlock the keys to preventing breast cancer. Visit PinkTogether.com from September 19, 2011 through April 14, 2012 to make your choice. Results will be announced on Mother´s Day 2012 - Sunday, May 13. 

Giveaway:

One reader will win a Pink Together Prize Pack containing:

• A 16 oz. box of Total cereal
• VIP coupons valid for one box of Cheerios and Multigrain Cheerios cereal and one cup of Yoplait yogurt
• Betty Crocker Living with Cancer Cookbook Pink Together Edition, which includes a collection of more than 150 delicious recipes with complete nutrition information and a 32-page Pink Together Survivor Ambassador bonus section that shares inspirational personal stories of survival as well as recipes
• Water bottle and removable silicone awareness bracelet
• Drawstring sport backpack
• Rhinestone ear buds

To Enter:

Leave me a comment on this post, it would be nice for you to share how breast cancer has touched you.

Extra Entries: Please leave a separate comment for each additional method of entry.

I'd like to encourage you to truely be "Pink Together"!

• Visit Pink Together on Facebook, if you choose to "Like" them, tell me in a comment on this post.
• Even if you choose not to "Like" their Facebook page, you can still be part of the Pink Together Facebook community!  Feel free to share stories, post a comment, and help choose a path for half of the General Mills donation!  If you choose to participate in the community, give yourself an extra entry for each thing you do, up to three extra entries.
• If you do both option 1 AND 2, give yourself another entry.

You can also earn extra entries by supporting my blog: Don't forget an extra entry for each one!

• Publicly follow my blog using Google Friends Connect.
• Subscribe to my blog via email.
• Follow me on Twitter, tweet this giveaway using @KTnestingspot.
• Like my blog's fan page on Facebook.
• Leave me a meaningful comment on a non giveaway post.

Giveaway open to US residents now through October 21st at midnight EST.  Winner will be chosen via random.org, notified by email, and have 48 hours to respond with the requested information before another is chosen.

Disclosure: The Pink Together prize pack, information and coupons have been provided free of charge by General Mills through MyBlogSpark.