Relay For Life of Marin County

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Apple Pay/Venmo now available! - American Cancer Society Resources For our Peer-to-peer fundraising events, donors can now pay via Apple Pay and Venmo when donating on someone’s personal or team fundraising website pages. Coming in early August, the FUNdraising app will allow a participant to request a Venmo payment. These new features will continue to enhance th...

Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers, donors, caregivers and partners for all you do.....................

The American Cancer Society | Thank You for All You Do Thanks to you, no one has to walk their cancer journey alone. With your help, we are improving the lives of people with cancer and their families through adv...

Here is a peek at what is happening at Relay For Life of Marin County - July 20 & 21 (noon to 10 AM) Olive School, 620 Olive Avenue, Novato, CA. Updates will be posted as the schedule is finalized......so much good stuff happening!!

Although each Relay For Life event embraces the uniqueness of the home community, every event does have the same four signature elements: a celebration of cancer survivors, a celebration of caregivers, a luminaria ceremony to honor and remember loved ones, and the opportunity to fight back against cancer.

Relay For Life 2024: Let's Rally

We have a wonderful area for crafters and vendors to set up, display and sell their items at our Relay. Selling will be on July 20, beginning at 1:00 pm. Sales can last as far into the afternoon as you would like. The cost is $50 for a space, please bring your own table(s) and easy --up. Sell your good and have a great time supporting Relay at the same time. Yoiu are invited to participate in any and all activities that are happening. To sign up or for more information, please contact Michelle Lewis at [email protected].

Relay 2024 - Join us for our Olympic themed Relay July 20 & 21, noon to 10 AM, Olive School in Novato, CA. Watch this page for more info.

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February is the time of year to celebrate your loved ones. Put your love into action. Make cancer screening a regular part of your life. Screening tests are used before a person has any symptoms to help find cancer early, when it may be easier to treat. cancer.org/getscreened
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Today is World Cancer Research Day! No single nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization in the US has invested more to find the causes and cures of cancer than the American Cancer Society, funding more than $5 ​billion in cancer research since 1946.
Learn more about how our research impacts every cancer and every life as we celebrate World Cancer Research Day. https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-highlights.html

Hey Marin Cpunty Relayers….you can participate in this challenge, too! Even with our event just wrapping up, there is still time to fundraise!

☀️😎Summer Fundraising Challenge! The heat is on!! 🔥
$110 Fundraising Challenge for "Our Hope for a Bright Future", raise a minimum of $110 between August 8th- August 18th and receive a limited pair of sunglasses 😎. GET READY & LET'S GO!!!

Per our Mission Moment last night….check this out!

A beautiful open letter from Road To Recovery volunteer driver, Sal:

To Future Road To Recovery Drivers:

If you are looking for an opportunity to help others with a real purpose, Road To Recovery is the answer. I have volunteered for many worthwhile organizations but to be honest, if I wasn’t present on the day of volunteering, the "show would go on without me." This is where Road To Recover is unique and so worthwhile. You, the driver, are so instrumental in helping a patient get to an important appointment and back home. The patient is on a rigorous schedule with few exceptions. You, the driver, are an important piece of the puzzle to assist the patient in their battle to recovery.

I met Karen, a cancer patient, in the summer of 2022. She and I quickly became riding buddies during her many hospital visits. We talked about everything and nothing. Being part of Karen’s journey was so important to me. On December 22, 2022, I received an awesome Christmas gift. Karen told my wife and me the beautiful and joyful news that her doctor told her yesterday: she was now cancer free. Karen thanked me for my part in her difficult recovery. I thanked Karen for being such an inspiration to me. I call my rides with my patients going to church: if you want to feel good, "Go to Church!"

Sincerely,
Sal Montuori

Sign up to buckle in as a Road To Recovery driver today: https://www.cancer.org/.../volunteer/road-to-recovery.html See less

Announcing a new ACS program, Pups Assisting With Support (PAWS), aiming to increase access to animal-assisted therapy for hospitalized children with cancer. 🐾 Applications are open to hospitals with facility dogs and a pediatric oncology department at https://redcap.link/acspaws

Our fundraising dollars at work!

What causes cancer disparities between people of different racial and income groups? How can we decrease these gaps? We’re determined to answer these questions and more by funding 65 grants totaling $62M to support research into health disparities.

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Junior and his legacy of championing justice and equality.

As part of our efforts to achieve health equity, the American Cancer Society has invested $16 million in grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities as well as Minority-serving institutions to impact future workplace diversity, and we have trained more than 2000 health equity ambassadors that have reached more than 485K people in Black communities with cancer prevention and early detection education. Our new IMPACT initiative will address the challenges we see with prostate cancer, and specifically the disparities that exist for Black men.

The American Cancer Society believes that all people should have a fair and just opportunity to prevent, find, treat, and survive cancer.

Come join Relayers from Marin and Sonoma counties to celebrate HOPE and launch our 2023 Relay Season! Everyone is welcome.

ANother reason of why we Relay and fundraise!!

Ovarian Cancer Research Highlights | Ovarian Cancer News See our latest findings from the ovarian cancer research conducted by our staff researchers & funded through research grants.

1️⃣ HPV is a common virus that can cause 6 types of cancer.

2️⃣ Prevention matters! HPV cannot be treated, but there is a vaccine that can prevent it.

3️⃣ The HPV vaccine works best when given between ages 9 and 12, for boys and girls.

4️⃣ The HPV vaccine is safe, effective, and long-lasting.

There is a Discovery Shop opening in a few months in Novato! This is a great way to support ACS - volunteer opportunities in the store and/or donating gently used items. Proceeds from the sale of merchandise goes to ACS to help fund all our programs, services and research.

We're looking for American Cancer Society Discovery Shop Enterprise volunteers! https://bddy.me/3ODLpae There are opportunities at many stores within the state. With shops staffed largely by volunteers, funds raised go even further to help American Cancer Society improve the lives of cancer patients and their loved ones. https://volunteercommunity.cancer.org/s/global-search/discovery%20shop?language=en_US

Relayers - bring a survivor so we can celebrate them (you) and enjoy a float on us!

Have you raised your $200?
It's the bottom of the ninth! Relayers! For it's one, two, three strikes! Cancer is out at the old ballgame! Game will be over at 11:59pm Central Time (9:59pm Pacific Time) to earn your baseball shirt! We can still do this!!

Our fundraiser is still going on through the end of June.
See's Candy makes a great teacher thank you gift, grads and dads will love this treat...heck, you can even treat yourself - all while supporting Relay For Life. Between 30 and 50 % of the sale goes to our event (depending on the item). You can even ship directly to someone! Can't decide? Order a gift card!

See's Candies Yum-Raising - American Cancer Society Relay For Life Marin County - RFL Marin County Thank you for supporting the RFL Marin County! We'll receive all profits from any items you purchase below. Order more to help us reach our fundraising goal!

Mark your calendars! On May 24, Giving Day, your donation could be doubled, up to $50,000, thanks to Outback Steakhouse - National! That could lead to: ​

✅ 2X the research that reaches people ​

✅ 2X the advocacy so change becomes reality ​

✅ 2X the services that support those in need