Welcome To
Relay For Life
Meeting #1
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
Cancer Education
•Help educate everyone on campus
about how to prevent and detect cancer
•Spread awareness throughout campus
about cancer
Survivorship
Relay For Life!
• Honor and support survivors and their
struggle
• Our main event- CAC typically plans and
hosts this event
• Hold events with survivors in our
community
• Why we’re here today!
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 2012
• 1600 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
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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 email 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 email them
to relaybufundraising@gmail.com
and we can help organize it and
plan it
– 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 email
us at teamd.relaybu@gmail.com
• Later this semester, we will be auctioning off a
class from KAPLAN. Stay tuned for more info!
Questions?