- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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1 person is interested
Relay For Life of Mountain View Needs an ACS CAN Lead!
ORGANIZATION: American Cancer Society
Please visit the new page to apply.
- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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1 person is interested
Lead role:
The ACS CAN Lead’s primary responsibility is to recruit ACS CAN members and engage Relay For Life participants in fighting back through advocacy. The ACS CAN (American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network120) Lead aims to educate Relay participants and the community about legislative efforts aimed to eradicate cancer and to recruit a grass-roots army of advocacy volunteers. Contact Leah Arceneaux for more information: 408.688.0088 or leah.arceneaux@cancer.org.
Specific tasks can include:
• Ask the Event Leadership Team, Team Captains, participants, volunteers, and community to take action on the Society’s legislative priorities and ACS CAN materials and resources.
• Ensure that Event Leadership Team includes and considers advocacy education and activation in their plans by including ACS CAN education, celebrations, and member recruitment in their agenda when Relay participants are gathered.
• Communicate and disseminate materials provided from ACS CAN to help raise awareness about cancer-related legislative priorities and to recruit ACS CAN members.
• Be willing to help mobilize Relay participants on ACS CAN’s legislative priorities, be able to articulate the benefits of becoming a member of ACS CAN, and be sure all Event Leadership Team and members and Team Captains can do the same.
• Collaborate with Registration Lead and Accounting Lead to track ACS CAN membership forms/fees.
• Recruit Event Leadership Team, Team captains, participants, and volunteers to join ACS CAN.
• Become an ACS CAN member.
• Promote ACS CAN Club and work with Recognition Lead to recognize members.
More opportunities with American Cancer Society
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About American Cancer Society
Location:
747 Camden Ave, Suite B, Campbell, CA 95008, US
Mission Statement
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.
Description
Relay For Life is a fun-filled event designed to celebrate cancer survivors and raise money to help the American Cancer Society save lives, help those who have been touched by cancer, and empower individuals to fight back against the disease.
During the Relay for Life, 10-20 people come together to form a team. The teams come from local businesses, churches, MOMs clubs, youth groups, etc and take turns walking/running laps around a high school track. The entrance fee per team is ONLY $150 and then each person fundraises at their own pace. Each team tries to keep at least one team member on the track at all times for a total of 24-hours.
WHY 24 HOURS??!
It iss crazy, but WonderfuL! The reason its 24 hours long is because cancer patients endure pain 24 hours a day and we can all give up 24 hours to celebrate them, their lives and the strides in finding a cure!! Cancer never sleeps.
There are Relay for Life events throughout CAlifornia, So go to www.relayforlife.org and find the one nearest YOU!! OH, don't forget to invite your favorite cancer survivors... we want to honor and pamper them at our events!
What do you think?!
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Entire Community, Mountain ViewMountain View, CA 94040
DATE POSTED
February 23, 2017
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 1-3 hours per week depending on time of year
- Plus up to 30 hours on event weekend