09-02-2025
$100K raised during 2025 Teddi Dance for Love marathon
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – Folks danced and grooved for 24 hours straight in honor St. John Fisher University's annual Teddi Dance for Love, a dance-a-thon that supports Camp Good Days and Special Times.
Since its inception in 1982, the annual endeavor raised more than $2 million to support the organization, which offers a variety of programs, retreats and camps to families impacted by cancer and sickle cell anemia.
Specifically, the dance marathon helps what's called the 'Teddi Project,' a program that sends a group of children on a week-long trip to amusement parks in Orlando, Florida.
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'To bring so many smiles to so many peoples' faces is indescribable. I remember seeing her face in Disney when we were there and she [a camper] never stopped smiling, and it was something that just means so much to me, and I will hold forever in my heart. It's an indescribably feeling and you just have to be there to experience it. It's just – love is everywhere when you get to experience something like that,' Gayle Trimboli, chair of the Teddi Dance for Love, and a senior at SJFU.
The goal Saturday night was to reach $100,000. This year the group just surpassed that goal, raising $100,255!
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