BELLINGHAM, Mass. — New England-area Dunkin' Donuts store owners on Aug. 11, 2008, raised just over $800,000 for a regional charity.
The owners participated in the 11th Annual Dunkin' Donuts George Mandell Memorial Golf Tournament and Auction, proceeds of which went to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Jimmy Fund. The event, organized by Dunkin' Donuts Northeast Distribution Center, is consistently the Jimmy Fund's highest-grossing fund-raising tournament nationwide.
Dunkin' Donuts franchisees and vendors in the Northeast have donated more than $7 million to fund the work of "Rising Stars" physicians at the Cancer Institute since the program's inception in 1998. Selected annually by DFCI, "Rising Stars" are doctors leading breakthrough cancer research as yet not backed by federal funding.
More than 200 golfers participated in the tournament and approximately 300 people attended the dinner/auction.
The Dunkin' Donuts George Mandell Memorial Golf Tournament began in 1998 in honor of George Mandell, a Dunkin' Donuts franchisee who died of cancer.
