Our team began as Team Takacs at Boston’s inaugural PurpleStride in 2011. We changed our name to Imagineers United in 2013 as we had so many team members who also were walking for loved ones and who raised a lot of money for the team. Our new name reflected not only how our team was united in this mission, but it was also an acknowledgement to another pioneer in this movement, Randy Pausch (author of The Last Lecture).

As the Takacs family has moved around, we’ve had Imagineers United teams walk in Boston, Raleigh, Nashville, and, for the first time in 2025, NYC!

Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers, with a five-year survival rate of just 13%. Research for pancreatic cancer has always been underfunded, but now the only program exclusively funding pancreatic cancer research was slashed with the recent passing of the FY25 budget bill by Congress. We need your support now more than ever!

Want to help? We’d love for you to join our team! Just click the 'JOIN THIS TEAM' button at the top of this page to get started. Register for free, raise $50 and you’ll receive an official PanCAN PurpleStride 2025 T-shirt!

OR, make a gift of any size to get us one step closer to our fundraising goal and improving more patients’ lives. NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL!