Pink Tulip Project at UMaine
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — As Breast Cancer Awareness Month approaches, a group of University of Maine students is at work raising funds to benefit support organizations by selling pink tulip bulbs. Members of the UMaine Women’s Symposium Committee are spreading the word about a statewide initiative, which benefits the Maine Cancer Foundation’s Women’s Cancer Fund.
Plans call for planting 15,000 tulip bulbs in public gardens throughout Maine this fall, including some on the UMaine campus in Orono. Organizers are asking donors to buy the bulbs for a dollar apiece. For each dollar raised at UMaine a tulip will be planted on campus. The UMaine organizers’ goal is to raise $1,000.
Those who are interested should visit www.mainecancer.org, or contact one of the organizers by email: Caitlin Sanborn (caitlin_sanborn@umit.maine.edu) or Michelle Morneault (michelle_morneault@umit.maine.edu). The website’s sponsorship page features a check-off box where UMaine donors can indicate that they would like the bulbs planted on campus.