Salon owner brings small businesses together to battle breast cancer

Dawn Panfil, owner of Hair and Body Solutions Salon and Spa in New Berlin, is a small business owner with a big dream: a world without breast cancer.

Dawn Panfil presents this year’s $12,300 donation to Pink Possible with her staff at Hair and Body Solutions. Dawn’s salon was the first of now more than 20 salons that have joined the Pink Possible campaign. To see the list of salons, go tohttp://www.aurora.org/pinkpossible.

Now six years cancer-free, Dawn remembers what it was like to be out of the salon for a year during her breast cancer treatments. “After I completed my treatment at Aurora West Allis Medical Center I knew I wanted to use my salon to help others” Dawn said.  And that is exactly what she did.

Hair and Body Solutions became the first salon to partner with Aurora Health Care Foundation’s Pink Possible campaign, which supports local breast cancer research efforts, education, prevention, patient experience and survivorship programs.  The salon raised $2,790 their first year, and raised $12,300 this year! 

Then, Dawn hit the streets to encourage other small businesses to join her. Read more at http://ahcfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/pink-possible-salon-owner-brings-small-businesses-together-to-battle-breast-cancer/