Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center Champion the Cure Challenge

Bring your family, bring your friends, and bring your friends’ friends to the 2025 Champion the Cure Challenge!

This group of family-friendly events includes a Walk, Cycle, or Run day, a Trail Ride day, and a Paddle day featuring delicious food, vendor and sponsor booths, and much more.

Champion the Cure Challenge is Northern Light Health Foundation’s largest fundraiser of the year. Proceeds help us support clinical research and patient care for our EMMC Northern Light Cancer Care patients.

2025 CCTC Events:

08/16/25| Walk, Cycle or Run Event | Brewer, ME
09/13/25 | Paddle Event | Brewer Waterfront 
09/27/25 | Trail Event | Corinna, ME  

Each year, thousands of people in our community come together with a shared purpose. They are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, business owners, healthcare professionals, cancer survivors, students, and many others.

Participants take the Challenge to ensure that Maine people get the very best cancer care available as close to home as possible. It’s a bold vision, but we believe that by working together, cancer doesn’t stand a chance.

In 2024, nearly $680,000 was raised at the through the Challenge. In total, the event has raised more than $7.8 million to support cancer research and patient care at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center.

We’ve entered the era of less chemo and more cures. New treatments that are more precise with fewer side effects will extend lives. As treatments advance and collaborations that benefit patients continue to develop, the need for support becomes even greater.

Whether you run, walk, cycle, paddle, trail ride, or participate virtually for yourself or in honor or memory of someone close to you, know that every dollar you raise will stay local to help patients and families in our communities that are affected by cancer.