Relay For Life of James Madison University What’s Up With Relay? Relay For Life of James Madison University

Stand Up, Sit Down

MISSION MOMENT Amanda Darling-Thompson Senior Manager, Relay For Life

$325k will allow 3,250 women to attend a Look Good Feel Better to help them feel more empowered and confident in dealing with appearance-related side effects from treatment Post your dashboard link on social media!!!

Alpha Omega ALONE has raised $19,115 which would provide... 384 FREE nights at the Hope Lodge 960 people FREE information, support, and access to resources through our 24-hour hotline 1,280 FREE rides to treatment Get from whitney that afternoon

Top 10 Individual Fundraisers Ned Sieverts - $3260.44 Suzi Windland - $2294 Stephen Pease - $1980 Kaitlin Pomerleau - $1500 Julia Brennan - $1480 Hayley Riker - $1465 Kelly Updike - $1460 Cecilia Blowe - $1435 Becca Stopky - $1430 Jake Singer - $1403

325k will provide 6,500 nights of free lodging at one of the American Cancer Society’s “Hope Lodges” throughout the country for people traveling for cancer treatment Send an email to 2 people to ask them to donate through your dashboard

Programs and Services - Hope Lodge Pick some (maybe 2) of the videos from KP’s email

How do we rank Nationally? we were #6 in 2015... #4 in 2016… What about this year?!?! Ask KP

How to Fundraise

FUNdraising App

Incentive Gifts

Incentives

More incentives!

And More!

$325k will provide 21,660+ free rides to treatment or to a follow-up appointment Venmo 5 people requesting 2 dollars

On-Site Fundraisers Here are some examples of what has been done in the past! -Bake sale -Selling Bracelets and beads -Hand warmers maybe get shout outs of examples or what people are doing?

More Fundraising Ideas! Who to look for: ANYONE (jk kind of) Your parent’s friends High School friends People you’ve had multiple classes with People who are/were involved in other Relay for Life events People who are/were involved in other charities People who just got a job or promotion (they got that extra cash flow)

Where to start - BE SHAMELESS!! Phone Contacts Facebook Look at recent messages for Messenger Go to your high school class page Go to “American Cancer Society Relay For Life” and see who of your friends from other schools like it Go to “American Cancer Society” and do the same thing Look at which of your friends are Nursing, or Pre-Med majors who are specifically going to work with patients → if they just graduated and started their jobs Look at your parent’s mutual friends Insta/Twitter See if any of your friends follow Relay for Life or American Cancer Society Canvas Go through your class rosters

116 people visit cancer.org every minute which means by the end of this meeting 6,960 people will have gone to cancer.org Send 3 text messages to people encouraging them to sign up for Relay For Life of JMU

Numbers Update 2017 GOAL: 4,500!!! Fundraising! 2676 $0 participants Recruitment: Current Numbers: 3595 2016 total: 3,900 2017 GOAL: 4,500!!! Fundraising! 2676 $0 participants 475 have fundraised but raised less than $100 191 have fundraised between $100-$200 24 have raised >$1000 Get the numbers from Whitney about ratios of $0/$100/$200/$1000 Have people stand up to give visual representation

Event Overview Ned

$325k will provide 16,250 calls to the American Cancer Society’s 24-hour helpline at 1-800-227-2345

Night of Logistics Check in begins at 4:00 PM EVERY single team member has to check in individually Each team member has to be registered (there is registration onsite) Each team is assigned a zone and campsites are first-come first- serve within each zone Utilize your team captain packet Anonymous Question and Answer with Brigid

Survivor Story: Molly

Exec Board Info Session If you are interested in applying for the JMU Relay 2017-2018 Exec Board, please stay from 9-10 for our info session! Info Sessions: April 19th, 9-10 pm; April 23rd, 2:30-3:30 pm Interviews: April 24th-26th and will be notified on April 28th Application can be found on the JMU Relay FaceBook page *Must attend 1 of the 2 info sessions in order to apply* Questions? Contact Megan Zook at zookmk@dukes.jmu.edu

GET PUMPED AND WE WILL SEE YOU FRIDAY ON HILLSIDE FIELD

All Committee Members stay after the meeting to get a surprise prize!