Today is the last day of the "America's Giving Challenge" on Facebook.  Simply put, the charity with the most number of donations (not donation amount) by 3pm ET today will win $50,000. 

So, Relayers, what are you waiting for?  Go to http://www.causes.com/americancancersociety and make a donation (any amount will do).

At the moment I'm posting this blog, we are number 49 on the list (and need at least 14,000 more donations within the next 2.5 hours).  The great thing about Relay is that we have such a vast network of volunteers that 14,000 is actually a simple number, if every Relayer just made a $1 donation.  All it really takes is 3 minutes of your time.

Get the word out to all of your Relay communities...the clock is ticking!!

My husbands grandmother recently died of cancer, while it was not breast cancer it was still cancer.  She was diagnosed with small cell carcinoma and lived for 3 years after her diagnosis.  During that time she endured many rounds of chemo and radiation therapy.  In her 2nd year she was diagnosed with brain mets, she woke up one day and was completely confused, we brought her to the ER and they immediately consulted her oncologist, we were told the devastating news.  They warned us it would not be long now and yet it was longer than was expected.  For this we were grateful and we were able to enjoy her presence for yet another year.  We were able to have a full 3 years with her after her initial diagnosis, cancer treatment has come a long way over the past decade and with my help and your help it will continue to submit to technology and medicine.

 : It says 2500 but I do not how to change it to make it lower.

Over the summer, we have added lots of great material to RelayForLife.org, and plan to offer lots more by the time you start getting in the thick-of-things with your 2010 events.  Our latest additions to the site include the Summit materials, the official implementation of Relay TV (where you can watch Relay videos as they run, or you can watch most of them "on-demand."

We have also updated the Team Captain Toolkit and added a new resource page for Bark For Life.  We've updated the navigation at the top of the page by adding an "outside the track" section, where you can access pages related to Relay, indirectly. 

Over the holiday season, we'll be working on an upgrade to RelayForLife.org to the most stable version of our platform, which should add some new functionality and usability to the site.  Stay tuned!

I've never done thid before where do I begin?

i was reading somewhere on here of a group that gave each survivor a seedling and a poem attached. i can not remember what type of seedling it was. what would be a good seedling tree to present to our survivors?

Today I was informed that my nephew, Jonathan, better known as Jonavark, had passed away last night at 11:36pm of liver cancer. It is a sad day but my heart is blessed knowing that he is now with our Heavenly Father and that we will, one day, be able to laugh again TOGETHER in Heavenly Father's presence!

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More to come!

I guess the best way to start is….Why do I Relay? What is my story?

I find cancer to be one of the scariest words in the English language.  If you have not had cancer personally, then you’ve probably had a family member who has, or know someone that has been affected by it.  Cancer seems to be everywhere I go.  I’ve gotten to the point where everyday someone new that I’ve personally known is either diagnosed or has passed on.