Get To Know the Staff at The Side-Out Foundation

Get to Know the Staff at Side-Out

August 17 is National Nonprofit Day and in the days leading up to this, Side-Out wants you to learn more about the people who help push the mission forward! Each day leading up to August 17, we will feature members of the Side-Out team. We will share their answers to what they do at Side-Out and some […]

Oakton High School Raises More Than $12,000 at Dig Pink® Rally

Oakton High School Raises Nearly $12,000 at Dig Pink® Rally Oakton Freshmen

FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 20, 2015 — The Oakton High School girls volleyball teams hosted their 10th Annual Dig Pink® Rally yesterday, raising more than $12,000 for The Side-Out Foundation, which supports metastatic breast cancer research. Side-Out has raised nearly $10 million in 10 years, with much of these funds coming from Dig Pink® events hosted […]

Side-Out Wins National 2015 PhRMA Research & Hope Award

Phrma Research & Hope Award

Washington, D.C., September 10, 2015 — Northern Virginia-based non-profit, The Side-Out Foundation, was honored by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA Research) with the Community Champion Research & Hope Award at a celebration in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday evening, the foundation announced. The award recognizes Side-Out for its outstanding achievements in the fight […]

Those Special Gingerbread Cookies

gingerbread cookies

When I think of the holidays I think of 2 things; CBS Christmas Specials…   Play Play Previous Next and Christmas at the Boyer’s House. This story is about neither of these things but rather the cookie that made these things even more special. When I was a young kid, my family would drive out […]

Meet Your 2013 SOAP Review Board!

Tim Anderson Midwest Region Liaison, The Side-Out Foundation Tim joined the Side-Out Foundation in March of 2011. Although a Nebraska native, he relocated to Southern California in 1998 for educational and professional opportunities. He obtained his graduate degree in sports management from Long Beach State and subsequently spent two and a half years in development […]

Ambassador Program Awards Review Board

Scholarship Awards Rick Dunetz, Executive Director, The Side-Out Foundation Janice Kruger, Former Head Women’s Volleyball Coach, University of Maryland Director of Strategic Initiatives and Programs, The Side-Out Foundation Lisa Marston, Former Head Women’s Volleyball Coach, UNC Charlotte Dr. Cecile Reynaud, Former Head Women’s Volleyball Coach, Florida State University Member, Board of Directors, The Side-Out Foundation […]

Advocating for the Breast Cancer Deadline!

About three weeks ago, several of us at Side-Out attended The National Breast Cancer Coalition’s (NBCC) Annual Advocacy Training Conference in Washington, DC (Saturday, April 30th through Tuesday, May 3rd). If you haven’t heard about it yet, NBCC set a deadline for the end of breast cancer. In a document explaining the deadline, the organization […]

The Strength of Teams

2004 West Springfield Spartans

When Matt Mullikin (IMG College) and Robin Bordleon (Sun Belt Conference) asked me to be the keynote speaker at their 2010 Sun Belt Conference banquet I must say I was hesitant. In fact, I was terrified. I thought to myself, “what message can I give them that will have impact and who am I to […]

Support Your Local Farmers Market

So I was shopping at Wegman’s with my wife the other day trying to pull together a father’s day brunch and as I approached the cucumbers I noticed something insane.  The organic Cucumbers were $1.99 each. EACH! The “GENETICALLY ENGINEERED” cucumbers were about 69 cents each.  Shocking to say the least. We have no definitive […]