Welcome To Meeting #1 Relay For Life

Who We Are: Colleges Against Cancer Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) is a nationwide collaboration of students, faculty and staff dedicated to eliminating cancer by working to implement the programs and mission of the American Cancer Society. With hundreds of chapters nationwide, CAC is showing the world that young people care and want to make a difference. In other words… We want to help rid the world from cancer We get help from the American Cancer Society We’re in universities all over the country!

What does CAC do? Advocacy Work with elected officials and campus admins to influence policies related to cancer Help make students’ voices heard Advocacy Work with elected officials and campus admins to influence policies related to cancer Help make students’ voices heard Cancer Education Help educate everyone on campus about how to prevent and detect cancer Spread awareness throughout campus about cancer Cancer Education Help educate everyone on campus about how to prevent and detect cancer Spread awareness throughout campus about cancer Relay For Life! Our main event- CAC typically plans and hosts this event Why we’re here today! Relay For Life! Our main event- CAC typically plans and hosts this event Why we’re here today! Survivorship Honor and support survivors and their struggle Hold events with survivors in our community Survivorship Honor and support survivors and their struggle Hold events with survivors in our community

Quick Run Through of RELAY Registration begins at 4pm Opening ceremony at 6pm Walk around the track, participate in themed laps, fundraisers, games, and other activities HAVE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF FUN Clean up, leave at 6 am

ACS Mission Statement The American Cancer Society! – The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service. – Stay Well. Get Well. Find Cures. Fight Back.

Where Does Your Money Go? 79 cents of every dollar raised goes to: – Research – Education – Advocacy – Patient Services

Important Dates: Team Captains Meeting #2 – March 8, 2012 Team Captains Meeting #3 and Bank Night – April 12, 2012 RELAY FOR LIFE OF BU – April 14, 2012

OUR GOALS FOR participants 196 teams – 1 team per country $125,000

Where are we now? 298 Participants 65 teams $6,787 raised

Top Teams Mission: Possible: $1,355 Alpha Phi Omega: $930 Sigma Kappa Sorority: $790

Top Participants Rachel Podber: $1,030 Ali Lifton: $585 Kimberly Weston: $500

Roles of a Team Captain Attend all Team Captains meetings Encourage friends and family to sign up! FUNDRAISE! Utilize the website Pass information on to your team Organize and delegate

Let’s Start With… Attending Team Captains Meetings! – ATTEND ALL TEAM CAPTAINS MEETINGS – They are mandatory, and necessary for us to provide you with some vital information to make your team’s Relay experience the best it can be! – Dates: March 8, 2012: Team Captains Meeting #2 April 12, 2012: Team Captains Meeting #3 and Bank Night

Let’s Continue With… HOW TO GET PEOPLE TO JOIN YOUR TEAM. Ask: – Friends – Classmates Sheets with info. Write on the board. – Teammates – Floor-mates, suite-mates, house-mates Floor event? – Fraternity/Sorority brothers/sisters – Professors, TAs

But how do I ask them?? Tell them why you Relay! – Sharing a story will help you connect with people Let them know about Relay and what CAC’s mission is – The more info they have, the more likely they are to join the cause

Set Goals Set goals for yourself. – Raising $100 gets you an American Cancer Society T-shirt! Set goals for your team – Create small incentives for your team to fundraise – If you reach it, set the goal higher!

Individual Fundraising Ask family members and friends – A kind, personalized or letter goes a long way. Ask your own and your parents’ co-workers – Parents may have coworkers that have been affected by cancer and want to donate. Social Networking-Facebook, Twitter, etc. – Post the website for people to donate or at least advertise Relay. You never know when someone may donate!

Team Fundraising Off-site fundraising: before Relay – If any teams have ideas them to and we can help organize it and plan – Some events will be organized for teams to run On-site fundraising: at Relay

Website Resources

Fundraising Tools

Your Personal Page

Your Team Page

Announcements The theme of Relay is THE OLYMPICS. – Please sign up to represent a country! – If you have not, see me after the meeting or us at Later this semester, we will be auctioning off a class from KAPLAN. Stay tuned for more info!

Questions?