October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Raging Bear Ranch wants to do all we can to raise the awareness. When MyBlogSpark approached me about working with them, General Mills® and PinkTogether.com to help raise this awareness I jumped at the chance.

What is PinkTogether.com you ask? PinkTogether.com is an online community on MySpace where those touched by breast cancer can connect and provide support, comfort, and encouragement to one another by sharing stories, comments and sending Virtual Flower Bouquets. If you have not been to their site please go out and have a look around. This site is supportive of all who are affected by breast cancer and you can leave messages of support and hope so they know that they are not battling this disease alone.

To encourage personal connections in the online community, General Mills will donate $1 (up to $20,000) to Komen for each inspirational story submitted, encouraging comment posted, or virtual flower of support sent on PinkTogether.com, and for each shared message of hope posted on Pink Together’s Facebook fan page during the month of October (up to $5,000). This $25,000 is in addition to the $2 million donation General Mills has committed to Komen to advance breast cancer research and support education and community outreach projects.

Raging Bear Ranch is asking all of our readers to help us spread the word about this important program. If you would like to participate in this Giveaway, we ask that you please visit PinkTogether.com and read some of the inspiring stories. You can also watch these short videos from the 2010 Pink Together Survivor Ambassadors talking about their journeys with breast cancer.

If that isn’t enough, PinkTogether.com through MyBlogSpark is offering a Giveaway to one of Raging Bear Ranch’s Readers! Connecting for a Cure Gift Package includes a Pink Ribbon car magnet and key chain, travel mug, and drawstring backpack, along with coupons for free packages of one Big G cereal, GreenGiant® Frozen Veggies, Macaroni Grill® Dinner Kits, Fiber One® Bars and Progresso® Soup.

I am dedicating this giveaway to the memory of my Nannie Pauline & Grandma Nash who were and still are two of the bravest women I know, memory of all the brave warriors who lost the battle, like my friend Julie, to all the brave men and women who are currently fighting breast Cancer, to the families of breast cancer patients and to the Survivors, like my friend Barb, you are my heroes.

Contest rules:

Giveaway opens Today, October 24th, 2010 at 9:00pm

Giveaway ends Sunday, November 7th, 2010 at 11:59PM

Multiple ways to earn an entry:

1st entry: Leave a comment and share which women/men in your life inspire you the most or what you find most inspiring about the PinkTogether.com

2nd entry: post your own story, comment(s), or send a virtual flower bouquet(s). I’ve already left several comments and sent several flowers. If you do one of these, come back, leave a comment and let me know you posted a story, comment or sent a virtual bouquet (hopefully all three)and that will give you a 2nd entry into the giveaway. If you post a story please leave a link to the story so that others can link over and read it!

3rd entry: Subscribe to my blog or follow me on Twitter and come back here and leave a comment that you subscribed or follow on twitter – if you are already a subscriber or follower then leave a comment stating you already subscribe/follow. ****If you are an e-mail follower or RSS reader please click through to the actual Post to leave a comment. ****

4th entry: Blog about this giveaway on your blog, leave a comment with a link directly to the giveaway post on your blog.

5th entry: Twitter about this giveaway using the hashtag #myblogspark and a link to this giveaway.

6th entry: Add the PinkTogether.com badge on your blog – come back and leave a note that you added the badge and where it is located. You can find the badge information towards the bottom of the PinkTogether.com site.

7th entry: Daily Entry after leaving the mandatory 1st entry.

JOIN THE RAGING BEAR RANCH WARRIOR TEAM AND HELP BRING AWARENESS ABOUT BREAST CANCER AND SIGN-UP FOR THE GIVEAWAY?

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