Pan-Mass Challenge – Compliance Building

I’m Looking for Donations

Compliance Building is a resource I publish for me, and share with you, to help the compliance profession. It’s free. I’m not looking for any of your compliance budget.

But I am hoping you will consider allocating a piece of your charitable donation budget to one of the charities I support: the Pan Mass Challenge.

The Pan Mass Challenge is a charity bike ride across Massachusetts to raise money for cancer research. 100% of your donation to my PMC ride will go the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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Your donations create success. My Pan Mass Challenge team gets matched up each year with a kid suffering cancer to help provide support. Last year and this year, our Pedal Partner is Maya. The picture below is inspiring proof.

In January 2017, Maya turned five years old. A month later, doctors found a large mass on one of her kidneys. The diagnosis was Clear Cell Sarcoma, a very rare renal cancer. Maya went through surgery to remove the mass, completed six days of radiation and seven months of chemotherapy to fight her cancer.

Look at that smile and look at that success.

I ride the Pan-Mass Challenge because I believe the money it raises makes a difference in the fight against cancer. It’s making a difference for Maya.

If you’ve read this far, you are either a very dedicated reader of Compliance Building or have also been touched by cancer. Unfortunately, most people have been touched by this terrible disease.

Compliance Building readers have already been very generous. So many of you have donated in the past and have already contributed this year to help me achieve my fundraising goal. (I apologize for this additional request.)

If everyone who reads Compliance Building donated a few dollars I would exceed my fundraising goals. If you think Compliance Building worth $1 a week. Then, please contribute $50…(Or More)

My Pan Mass Challenge ride will start in less than a month and will be 192 miles over two days from Sturbridge to Provincetown. If I hit my fundraising goal, I will add another day of riding to Sturbridge on the day before the official start.

Donations can be made by clicking on any of the links below, or sending a check to my mailing address:

Doug Cornelius
15 Lockwood Rd
West Newton MA 02465

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Thank you,
Doug

I’m Once Again Asking You For Your Hard-Earned Money

Compliance Building is a free resource I publish for me, and share with you, to help the compliance profession.

Now I need some of your hard-earned money. I should point out that the money is not for me; It’s for charity. Help me fight cancer, by raising money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

I’m riding the Pan Mass Challenge in 2017 and hope you will consider supporting me this year. [Click here to make a donation]

Your money will go to help kids like Maya. She is my PMC team’s pedal partner this year.

In January, Maya turned five years old. A month later, doctors found a large mass on one of her kidneys. Maya has Clear Cell Sarcoma, a very rare renal cancer. Maya went through surgery to remove the mass and has completed six days of radiation. The next step is seven months of chemotherapy to beat her cancer. Maya’s mom reported that Maya is taking her treatments in stride as only a five year old who loves unicorns can. They are seeing to positive results!

I ride the Pan-Mass Challenge because I believe the money it raises makes a difference in the fight against cancer. It’s making a difference for Maya.

If you’ve read this far, you are either a very dedicated reader of Compliance Building or have also been touched by cancer. Unfortunately, most people have been touched by this terrible disease.

Last year, I lost my best friend to cancer. Jeff was diagnosed with cancer just before Thanksgiving 2015. This terrible disease killed him just two months later. Jeff and I grew up with Dave. After Dave’s mom died of cancer, Dave formed Team Kinetic Karma and I first rode my first Pan-Mass Challenge.

I came back to ride again when Dave was diagnosed with cancer. He fought back and won. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute helped him beat back the disease.

Then my dad was diagnosed with cancer. He fought back and won. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute helped him beat back the disease. But his sister, brother, and mother (my aunt, uncle and Nana) did not win and lost their battles with cancer.

We are hoping that Maya will win her battle. Your donations will help.

100% of your donation to my PMC ride will go the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Pan- Mass Challenge is the biggest source of income for Dana-Farber.

Compliance Building readers have been very generous. So many of you have donated in the past and helped me to achieve my fundraising goal. (Many you have already donated this year and I apologize for this additional request.)

If everyone who reads Compliance Building donated a few dollars I would exceed my fundraising goals. If you think Compliance Building worth $1 a week. Then, please contribute $50…(Or More)

The Pan Mass Challenge ride is 192 miles over two days from Sturbridge to Provincetown. If I hit my fundraising goal, I will add another 100 miles on a third day of riding from the New York border over the Berkshires to Sturbridge.

Donations can be made by clicking on any of the links below, or sending a check to my mailing address:

Doug Cornelius
15 Lockwood Rd
West Newton MA 02465

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On the Road, On My Bike

I’m not thinking about compliance today. When this story gets posted I’ll be somewhere on the road between Hillsdale, New York and Sturbridge, Massachusetts. I’m with a dozen members of my Pan-Mass Challenge team and a few dozen other hearty souls who have added on a pre-ride we call Day Zero. The first official day of the my Pan-Mass Challenge ride starts Saturday morning in Sturbridge and the second day starts in Bourne, just beside the Cape Cod Canal, as we head toward Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod.

In all, it will be about 300 miles over those three days. Those are days remembering those we have lost to cancer, cheering those who are fighting cancer and celebrating those who have beaten cancer. I’m sure you or someone you love has been affected by cancer.

The Pan-Mass Challenge is the biggest fund raiser for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. 100% of the rider generated donations go to Dana Farber.

I’m so grateful at the outpouring of Compliance Building readers who have supported me. I’ve got your names tucked into my jersey pocket and I’m bringing you all the way across Massachusetts.

If you are interested in supporting my ride there is still time donate, just follow this link: http://profile.pmc.org/DC0176

Compliance Bricks and Mortar for August 4

It’s early round up this week. I’m taking Friday off to ride additional day before the Pan-Mass Challenge.http://profile.pmc.org/DC0176

In the meantime, these are some of the compliance-related stories that recently caught my attention.

People, please stop making these two insider trading-related mistakes! by Bruce Carton in Compliance Week

There are two insider trading-related “mistakes” that I have repeatedly warned against in this blog through the years.

Mistake 1. People whose firms are directly involved in merger transactions (e.g., public company employees, investor relations executives, lawyers, accountants, etc.) foolishly believe that they can engage in insider trading without being caught. Seriously, just don’t do it!

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Drinker Biddle analyzes the First 50 Crowdfunding Offerings by Marc A. Leaf, Robert T. Esposito and Abigail Luhn in the CLS Blue Sky Blog

As of June 30, 2016, 50 companies have filed a Form C with the SEC to offer securities under the Regulation Crowdfunding exemption. Minimum target offering amounts range from $20,000 to $500,000 per offering, with a median of $55,000. All but one of these issuers, however, have disclosed that they will accept offers in excess of the target amount, including 27 issuers that say they will accept investments at or near the maximum permitted offering amount of $1,000,000. In contrast, 18 of the first 50 issuers elected to cap their offering at just $100,000, with the remainder setting an offering cap of between $200,000 and $500,000. In the aggregate, if this first wave of retail crowdfundings is successful, 50 small companies will raise an aggregate of $6 to $30 million in new capital to fund their businesses. [More…]

John Hancock and Cultural Transformation by Tom Fox in the FCPA Compliance & Ethics Report

As a CCO or compliance practitioner, you need to be seen as leading this type of behavior. Heffernan ended with these propitious comments from Van der Bel, “It starts with you. You must always show up energised and open. Annual surveys are a thing of the past; you have to get a sense of pulse on a weekly basis. I’m much more thoughtful about which meetings I attend, how I add value. You have to get out more and listen more.” [More…]

China Clamps Down on Fund-Management Firms by Shen Hong in the Wall Street Journal

The move, which has eliminated close to 40% of the country’s privately-offered funds, is the latest signal of a policy shift by the Chinese leadership toward boosting regulatory oversight and away from financial liberalization and reform, especially after thedramatic stock market meltdown over a year ago. [More…]

Saying Goodbye To An Old Friend

The world got a little less interesting now that this big, bold, brash guy has left it.

I have not posted in Compliance Building while I’ve been trying to deal with this loss.

My best friend, Jeff Levine, was diagnosed with cancer just before Thanksgiving. He lost his battle against the disease last week.

Jeff and I had been friends since high school. We grew up on the same street. Went to high school together. Went to college together. Snowboarded together. Biked together. Laughed together. Cried together.

I’ve been in Los Angeles this week saying goodbye to him, surrounded by his family and friends. There are many stories to tell and remember. His legacy will live on.

I had registered for this summer’s Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money for cancer research last week. I got the call from Jeff’s sister two days later that Jeff had taken a turn for the worse and was not going make it through the day.

One of Jeff’s legacy’s will be me riding my bike in his memory. If you are interested in supporting me you can make a donation using the links below. 100% of the donation goes to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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Weekend Riding: Midnight Boston Marathon Bike Ride

While marathon runners were sleeping in anticipation of the race on Patriots Day, I joined hundreds of cyclists to bike the 26.2 miles in the middle of the night. The Midnight Marathon Bike Ride was back for its seventh year in a row. Short of actually running, I thought it was a great way to honor the marathon tradition.

Plus, I signed up to ride the Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money for cancer research. So, I need to spend a lot of time in my bike saddle to prepare for that two-day ride across the state

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The roads were still open to vehicular traffic at midnight before the marathon, but there are few cars on the road that time of the day. The road were mostly recovered from the winter stress and were spruced up for the marathon’s start several hours later.

The ride actually starts in South Station. You can jump on the commuter rail and load your bike in a truck to re-join you at the Southborough station at midnight. I convinced Mrs. Doug to drive me and two fellow riders out to Southborough instead.

There were dozens and dozens of riders at the train station who had also been dropped off. That’s lots of riders with an assortment of lights, bikes, skill levels and motivations.

It was cold. We were dressed to ride, not stand around in the cold. So we jumped on our saddles and rode off just before midnight and before the train arrived. As we left the the parking a lot, a half-dozen moving trucks full of the train riders’ bikes pulled into the parking lot.

midnight marathon route

It was a few miles from the train station to the Marathon’s starting line in Hopkinton. A few miles that went mostly uphill, with a nasty half-mile stretch in excess of a 5% grade. It’s a tough enough hill that there is a plan B route that goes around the hill.

At the start line we found several hundred more cyclists already in place waiting for midnight or the train riders to come. We kept pedaling.

And pedaling and pedaling.

It was a continuous stream of bikes from start to finish.

Marathon security was nice enough to leave the finish line open for us to take pictures.

Boston Common Coffee Company hosted a charity pancake breakfast after the ride. Pancakes taste great after 30 miles in the saddle.

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Weekend Riding – Facing the Cold

That’s me, bundled up for my first bike ride of 2015 on Saturday. I was going to ride first thing in the morning, but shied away when I saw a 9 degree reading on the thermometer. I waited for the balmy afternoon temperature of 22 degrees before enduring a 15 mile ride.

Why ride?

first ride of 2015

I’m riding the 2015 Pan-Mass Challenge this summer to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. (Click here to make a donation of any amount.) I would appreciate your financial support.