April 25-26 2008- "Let's Make Cancer History"

IHey--

 I'm working on youth recruitment and such this year and I am looking for anyone who has creative ideas for youth fundraising!  Any ideas other than the traditional car wash???

PLEASE HELP ME!

(and thank you!)

I didn't know where else to post this, so here goes. I am a "cancer mom" and am happy to say our son (Hodgkin Lymphoma State 3) is wonderfully healthy, a husband and father at age 31. (He was 18 at the time of his diagnosis.)

My insanity as a mom was assuaged by writing a realistic, funny, accurate book about a teen going back to high school after having been successfully treated for Hodgkins. The profits go to HUGS in Hawaii and the Lymphoma Society. The publisher let it go out of print, and it is now rerealesed. (STARING DOWN THE DRAGON was an American Library Association selection as Best Books for Young Adults in 2004). OK, so that is one way I "give back" to the community.

Now, here's the info I don't know where to post. I am a librarian and author. I just did a community cookbook that's more of an oral history/history/photos cookbook. I know that cookbooks are a great fundraiser. I also know that if you do the self-publish route, the learning curve is steep. If anyone is doing a cookbook, email me because I'm putting up a free "how to do a community cookbook" blog. I'm hoping to save people from making the same mistakes I made and benefitng by what I learned.

This is my first time doing this.  I am looking for some good and easy fundraising ideas.  Any help would be mych appreciated.  Thank you!:)

1. Are you sure you registered on RelayForLife.org AND your local event website?

Perhaps you registered for your local Relay For Life event. Each Relay For Life event has its own website that looks similar to RelayForLife.org. It can be easy to confuse the two sites.

A good way to tell which site you're on is that your local event's website has fundraising totals, your own "participant center," team pages, and information specific to your event.

RelayForLife.org is an online community for volunteers from around the world to share stories, ideas, and information. It's a place for you to access valuable resources to help improve your Relay For Life event.

If you're trying to log on to your local event's website (for fundraising, team registration, donations, etc.) - click here to find your event.

Sometimes I think I am crazy.  I participated in relay last year as the captain of our team and have signed up to chair the event this year.  Have I totally lost my mind?? 

 

No I think that I can do this as long as I keep in mind the reason that we are doing this to begin with.  I have never had cancer but my father has.  I feel like he dodged a major bullet simply because they caught it early, operated and got it all without any further treatment.  We were so blessed.  But I want to be one less.  One less person diagnosed with it. 

One less.  One less!!  If we keep raising money then it will be 2 less, then 3 less, etc. etc..

I want my grandaughter to be able to say, "Cancer?  What's that?".  And I want to be able to answer her with, "Don't worry about it baby, it's just something people used to get sick from, but not anymore".  Wouldn't that be wonderful?

 

In the mean time, I will keep raising money and celebrating, remembering, and fighting back!!!