The North Disease Awareness Club raised over $3,000 for cancer research for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through a mini-golfing event in partnership with the Jimmy Fund Saturday, Oct. 7, according to senior Nathan Riesenburger, the club president.

“It was a fun idea for a really good cause,” said senior Dennis Rodrick.

The Disease Club has held various types of fundraisers in recent years, but mini-golfing is a new format, according to senior Alex Gleason, a club member.

“We had done car washes in the past, bake sales, boba tea sales,” said Gleason. “But those just really weren’t impactful in the grand scheme of things because it would be a couple of hundred dollars here and there, but we’re looking to do even more.”

According to Gleason, the members saw other schools that had worked with the Jimmy Fund before and saw the organization as an opportunity to make a bigger impact.

“I saw the flyers for a ‘Putting4Patients’ event, and, even though the date had passed, I thought the event sounded super fun,” Reisenburger added. “So, I looked it up and saw from Dana-Farber’s Putting4Patients webpage that high schools around Massachusetts do this all the time. That inspired me to run my own later on at North.”

The opportunity for the Disease Awareness Club to work with the Jimmy Fund has been rare for North in the past, according to Jimmy Fund representative Mark Levine.

“We did an event two years ago on this field, but it ended up raining, so we didn’t get the turnout that we expected,” said Levine. “This is only our second one here, but we’ve done this event at a lot of different high schools and we’ve been successful there.”

The fundraiser’s participants had positive responses as well.

“It’s really nice out and we spent some time with friends,” added senior Parker Ferguson.