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Help Fight Cancer and Share your Voice!
ORGANIZATION: American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
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95 people are interested
PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU LIVE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY!
California Volunteer Legislative AmbassadorBeing an American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) California Volunteer Legislative Ambassador will require time and energy, but it can be an incredibly rewarding experience.
You can make a tremendous difference by becoming a Legislative Ambassador and demanding that your elected officials get involved in the fight against cancer.
A volunteer Legislative Ambassador is an American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network volunteer that works with, and provides support to, legislative advocacy staff and leadership as well as providing support for local, state and federal advocacy activities in California. Volunteer Legislative Ambassadors play an integral part in helping the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network's goal to make cancer a top national priority with elected officials.
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About American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
Location:
980 9th Street, Suite 2200, Sacramento, CA 95814, US
Mission Statement
ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate headquartered in Washington, D.C., supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people extraordinary power to fight cancer with the training and tools they need to make their voices heard.
Description
Defeating cancer is as much a matter of public policy as of scientific discovery. Law-makers play a critical role in determining how much progress we make as a country in defeating cancer. From ensuring that all Americans have access to adequate, afford- able health insurance, to enacting laws proven to reduce tobacco consumption, to increasing funding for cancer research and programs, interaction with local, state, and federal governments is constantly required. That’s why the Society and ACS CAN work together to make cancer a top national priority by communicating with elected officials across the country through a community-based grassroots network of cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers, as well as health care professionals, public health organiza- tions, and other partners.
The importance of advocacy is underscored by the fact that it serves, along with the elimination of disparities, as a pillar supporting each of the high-impact areas iden- tified by the Society: supporting cancer research; preventing cancer and detecting it in its earliest stages; fostering better decision making through information; and improving quality of life for cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. Despite notable progress, the uninsured, minorities, and other medically underserved populations still are not benefiting fully from advances in cancer prevention, screening, and treatment. Both the Society and ACS CAN strive to help create, change, and influence public policies that significantly reduce disparities and promote outreach to diverse communi- ties. Advocacy efforts, including those funded through Society grants to ACS CAN, are targeted within all of these areas to achieve maximum results.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1029 J Street, Suite 450Sacramento, CA 95814
DATE POSTED
October 18, 2017
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- On average, a couple hours a month
- Have access to: internet, valid email address and phone.