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Concord Road Race Gets Big Fundraising Boost Switching To Virtual Run
"We knew we weren't going to hold the race the same way this year," Derek Swaim told WBZ-TV.
CONCORD, MA — 2019 was a big year for the Mighty Moose 5k fundraising run. The small community based run in Concord raised $200,000 for ovarian cancer research in their second year. And then, came 2020.
“We knew we weren’t going to hold the race the same way this year,” Derek Swaim told WBZ-TV.
Swaim lost his wife Jenna in 2018 at the age of 43.
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He and his three kids started the race to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in her memory.
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