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COBS Bread Dedicates its Doughnation Day Across
Five Bakeries to Swim Across America
COBS Bread's Annual Fundraising Day Supports Cancer
Research
with Swim Across America - Fairfield County, Long Island
Sound, and Nassau/Suffolk Swims
COBS Bread is
raising some dough throughout the month of March and
will culminate the effort with its annual Doughnation
Day on April 5, 2025. Funds raised will
support the nonprofit Swim Across America, which
raises funds for crucial cancer research, and its three
swims in the greater New York City area. COBS Bread’s five
bakeries—in Stamford and Westport, Connecticut, and in
Eastchester, Merrick and Oceanside, New York—will
participate in the program.
Doughnation Day is
a COBS Bread company-wide tradition dedicated to giving back
to local charities. COBS Bread will donate $2 from every
6-pack of hot cross buns sold at the designated stores on
April 5th to support cancer research through Swim Across
America. Customers are also encouraged to donate additional
funds starting March 8. Leading up to Doughnation Day,
Swim Across America volunteers and representatives will be
visiting the participating COBS Bread locations on March
8, March 22, and April 5, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.,
to share information about the swims, the cancer research
each swim supports, and encourage community participation
and donations.
Participating stores include:
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COBS Bread
Stamford (1057 High Ridge Rd, Stamford, Connecticut
06905)
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COBS Bread Westport (374
Post Rd E, Westport, Connecticut 06880)
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COBS Bread
Eastchester (777 White Plains Rd, Scarsdale, New
York 10583)
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COBS Bread Merrick (2013
Merrick Rd, Merrick, New York 11566)
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COBS Bread
Oceanside (3187 Long Beach Rd, Oceanside, New York
11572)
“Our bakeries in Connecticut, including our
first-ever U.S. store in Stamford, Connecticut, have long
supported the Swim Across America - Fairfield County swim,”
said Karen Frost-Spokes, vice president of COBS Bread USA.
“When we learned that there were two other Swim Across
America events in the backyards of our new bakeries in the
New York area, it made perfect sense to expand our support
and dedicate this year’s ‘Doughnation Day’ to all three Swim
Across America events in the New York City area.”
Founded in 1987, Swim Across America has
raised more than $100 million to fight cancer. In its 38
years of making waves, thousands of swimmers and Olympians
have swum the circumference of the earth three times uniting
a movement to fight cancer that has created a groundswell of
support spanning all generations. Today, more than 24
communities across the U.S. hold charity swims each year,
which support innovative cancer research, detection and
patient programs. Swim Across America’s grants have helped
support the research and clinical trials for FDA approved
immunotherapy medicines: Keytruda, Opdivo, Yervoy,
and Tecentriq. Swim Across America is also a grant
funder of the successful clinical trial at Memorial Sloan
Kettering that was published in The
New England Journal of Medicine and showed a 100
percent success rate in treating patients in a phase 2
clinical trial for advanced rectal cancer with dostarlimab,
an immunotherapy treatment produced by GlaxoSmithKline. Swim
Across America awards grant to more than 60 projects each
year and there are ten named Swim Across America Labs at
major institutions.
“We are incredibly grateful to be selected as
the beneficiary of COBS Bread’s Doughnation Day,”
noted Nancy Carr, Swim Across America - Fairfield County
event director. “COBS Bread has been extremely generous to
our swim for many years and we are thrilled to expand this
relationship with our other swims in New York in Westchester
County and on Long Island. This generosity will help us
continue funding groundbreaking cancer research and clinical
trials, and we look forward to engaging with the COBS Bread
customers and the community even more through this
initiative.”
Funds raised locally stay local. The Swim
Across America - Fairfield County open water swim, held
on June 21 in Stamford, Connecticut, specifically
supports Stamford-based Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy. Swim
Across America - Long Island Sound (Westchester) is held
on July 26 in Larchmont, New York, and supports
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Columbia University
Cancer Center, Cancer Support Team and Weill Cornell
Medicine. The Swim Across America - Nassau/Suffolk Long
Island open water swim on August 2 in Glen Cove, New
York, supports cancer research with Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory, the Feinstein Institute of Northwell
Health, the University of Texas MD Anderson Children's
Cancer Hospital (The Stacey Leondis Fellowship), and SHARE
Cancer Support. To learn more about Swim Across America or
to register to swim, volunteer, or donate, visit swimacrossamerica.org.
About Swim Across America
Swim Across America, Inc. (SAA) raises
money and awareness for cancer research, prevention and
treatment through swimming-related events. With the help of
volunteers, and Olympians, Swim Across America is an
innovator and leader in giving hope to those fighting
cancer. To learn more visit swimacrossamerica.org,
Facebook @SwimAcrossAmerica,
and Instagram @SAASwim.
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