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167:. The PMC was the first athletic fundraiser to require participants to guarantee their pledges with a personal credit card, a change that caused riders' delinquency rate to fall from 17 percent to 3 percent. The 2023 Pan-Mass Challenge, its 44th annual event, featured 6,500 participants and raised $ 72 million, the single largest donation in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's history.
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