Dancing Deer Baking Company supports cancer care and research for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

BOSTON – Dancing Deer Baking Company is offering a gift designed to give back this season as part of Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund’s Holiday Collection presented by Amica Insurance. The Collection offers an array of New England-made products, including 13 original cards designed by area artists, photographers, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute patients, as well as candles, ornaments, chocolates and locally-made gift sets. All proceeds from the sale of the collection go to adult and pediatric patient care and cancer research at Dana-Farber.

This year Dancing Deer will offer two products: the Dancing Deer Gingerbread Cookie House Kit and the Dancing Deer Vanilla Snowflake & Chocolate Sea Salt Star Cookies in a Shaker Box. This is the second year that Dancing Deer has participated in the Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund’s Holiday Collection.

Other New England companies in the Holiday Collection include:

• An exclusive ALEX AND ANI Gingerbread Man Bangle offered in silver and gold, made in Rhode Island
• Aunt Sadie’s Candles, of Vermont
• ChemArt holiday ornaments, made in Rhode Island
• Only in Rhode Island gift baskets: Breakfast in New England, Wicked Tasty, The New Englander
• Fuller’s Sugar House maple syrup gift set, which includes an 8.45-ounce bottle of pure maple syrup and a 16-ounce bag of maple buttermilk pancake mix, made in New Hampshire
• “Bucket Bag” by Sea Bags, handcrafted in Maine from recycled sails and customized with Jimmy Fund Clinic patient handprints
• Mapled Nut Company gift box, which includes four, 4-ounce bags of almonds, walnuts, cashews, and pecans, made in Vermont
• Dark chocolate or white chocolate peppermint bark box by Serenade Chocolatier in Brookline, Mass.

Several New England retailers are selling Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund’s holiday cards and gifts in-store, including The Paper Store, Stop & Shop, The Crafty Yankee, Cooper Jewelers, Terrazza, and photo cards by LookLoveSend. The products can also be purchased at Dana-Farber’s Friends’ Corner Gift Shop in Boston.

For more information, or to view the entire collection, please visit: www.dana-farberholiday.org.

About Amica Insurance

Amica Mutual Insurance Co., the nation’s oldest mutual insurer of automobiles, was founded in 1907. The company, based in Lincoln, Rhode Island, is a national writer of auto, home, marine and umbrella insurance. Life coverage is available through Amica Life Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary. Amica employs more than 3,400 people in 44 offices across the country. For more information, visit Amica.com.

About Dancing Deer Baking Company

Since 1994, Dancing Deer Baking Company, a leading national provider of gourmet food gifts and baked goods for businesses and consumers alike, has been known for its delicious, scratch-baked brownies, cookies, cakes, baking mixes and gourmet gift arrangements. Dancing Deer is renowned for its superb quality, innovative products, socially responsible business practices and world class customer service. Its brownies have twice been recognized as “Best Brownies in America,” and Dancing Deer has won many other national awards and accolades for its distinctive products. In 2009, the Company was one of the first 25 Massachusetts companies to become certified as a Sustainable Business Leader. Dancing Deer baked goods can be found in gourmet gift arrangements for consumers and corporations that are sold on its website, and in specialty, natural food and grocery stores nationwide, as well as on leading global airline carriers. For more information, please visit www.DancingDeer.com.

About the Jimmy Fund
The Jimmy Fund (www.JimmyFund.org) solely supports Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, raising funds for adult and pediatric cancer care and research to improve the chances of survival for cancer patients around the world. It is an official charity of the Boston Red Sox, as well as the official charity of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, the Pan-Mass Challenge, and the Variety Children’s Charity of New England. Since 1948, the generosity of millions of people has helped the Jimmy Fund save countless lives and reduce the burden of cancer for patients and families worldwide. Follow the Jimmy Fund on Facebook: www.facebook.com/thejimmyfund and on Twitter: @TheJimmyFund.

About Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
From achieving the first remissions in cancer with chemotherapy in 1948, to developing the very latest new therapies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is one of the world’s leading centers of cancer research and treatment. It is the only center ranked in the top 4 of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Hospitals for both adult and pediatric cancer care.

Dana-Farber sits at the center of a wide range of collaborative efforts to reduce the burden of cancer through scientific inquiry, clinical care, education, community engagement, and advocacy. Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center provides the latest in cancer care for adults; Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center for children. The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center unites the cancer research efforts of five Harvard academic medical centers and two graduate schools, while Dana-Farber Community Cancer Care provides high quality cancer treatment in communities outside Boston’s Longwood Medical Area.

Dana-Farber is dedicated to a unique 50/50 balance between cancer research and care, and much of the Institute’s work is dedicated to translating the results of its discovery into new treatments for patients locally, and around the world.