Herberger's stores are holding their annual "Charge Against Breast Cancer" fund-raising initiative in October. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and throughout the month, a portion of the proceeds from "Passion for Pink" items as well as from all customer purchases made on a store credit card in Minnesota will be donated to the Masonic Cancer Center for breast cancer research. Since the program began, $324,233 has been raised for breast cancer research at the University of Minnesota.

"We at the Masonic Cancer Center are grateful to Herberger's for partnering with us to find more answers about the causes of breast cancer," said John Kersey, M.D., director of the Masonic Cancer Center. "This generous donation will help support the work of many Masonic Cancer Center doctors and scientists whose focus is breast cancer research. We believe their innovative research will further advance the scientific knowledge about breast cancer and lead to even better methods for beating this disease."