Lee Company to Fight Breast Cancer Through National Denim Day What can you do with $5? Can you save a life? Can you make a difference? Could the cure to breast cancer really be in your jeans? Local businesses will find out this October when the Lee Company sponsors Lee National Denim Day on Friday October 8 to raise money for breast cancer awareness, education and research. This year's national goal is $6 million. And it will come from the pockets of jeans and denim shirts and denim jackets all over the country and the Bayou Region! Once again, the Lee Company is inviting businesses and corporations to participate in Lee National Denim Day by allowing their employees to wear denim to work on October 8. All they ask is for an individual $5 donation per participating employee to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Last year, Lee National Denim Day exceeded its goal of $4 million, raising more than $5.5 million and making it the nation's largest single-day fundraiser for breast cancer. In three years, Lee National Denim Day has raised more than $10 million for the Komen Foundation. Donations from Lee National Denim Day have funded everything from research grants at the nation's most prestigious universities and teaching hospitals to local screening and education programs in medically underserved areas of the country. In fact, contributions to Lee National Denim Day funded more than 30 percent of the research grants and fellowships awarded by the Komen Foundation last year. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was established in 1982 by Nancy Brinker to honor the memory of her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died from breast cancer at the age of 36. The Foundation is the nation's leading private funder of breast cancer research and community programs. In addition to funding research, Komen Affiliates fund innovative and collaborative breast cancer education, screening and treatment projects for the medically underserved in communities across the country. For more information, please call 1-800-688-8508 ext. 401 or visit the Lee National Denim Day web site at www.denimday.com/den. return to list of archived press releases