Team Information
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Team Fundraising Challenge
Victorian - raise over $30,000 Excalibur - raise between $25,000 - $29,999 Diamond - raise between $20,000 - $24,999 Ruby - raise between $15,000 - $19,999 Platinum - raise between $10,000 - $14,999 Gold - raise between $ 5,000 - $ 9,999 Silver - raise between $ 2,500 - $ 4,999
Your team will be recognized at the Relay by receiving a Team Fundraising sign to acknowledge your Teams achievement.
2013 Fundraising Team Money
Mail To: American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Cheshire c/o Dave Ryan 38 Richards Road Norwalk, CT 06854
Be sure to include Team#, Team Name & Captain Name
Then send us an e-mail of what you send so that we can be sure your team gets proper credit.
Do "NOT" Mail Cash Get a bank check or send a personal check for the cash amount.
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Tips for Recruiting a Team...
Here are few suggestions:
Organize a meeting.
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Invite everyone you know. Ask them to bring a friend.
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Serve refreshments.
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Show the Relay videotape.
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Ask another Relay volunteer to attend.
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Ask a cancer survivor to speak.
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Ask for completed registration forms at the end of the meeting.
Identify others who can help spread the word.
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Use flyers to help get the word out.
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Ask everyone face to face. It works!
Dedicate your team to someone.
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Tell the stories of cancer survivors and team members.
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Dedicate their efforts to a loved one who has passed away from cancer.
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Tell their story, and yours.
Create a team theme.
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Use a walking theme, such as Stride with Pride, or Walking for a Cure.
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Use a cancer related theme, such as Run for Life or Stamp out Cancer.
Coordinate Your Team.
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Set income goals for both individuals and your team.
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Encourage your team members to collect contributions for luminary.
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Include luminary sponsor forms with each contribution.
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Schedule your team members to walk at different times during the event.
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Keep at least one person on the track for the entire Relay.
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Try to collect all team member envelopes a few days before the Relay.
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Each team member's envelope should contain at least $100 in contributions, and should include the member's name, team name, and signature.
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Attend all team captain meetings.
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Attend bank night, when pledges are turned in.
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Ask team members to volunteer for jobs during the Relay: cooking, setting up campsites, taking pictures, and cleaning up at the end of the day.
[ Teams Rules ]
See Team Captain Tips Document on Forms page
The American Cancer Society has great on-line tools to make you even more successful with Relay For Life... Check out several new features that are up and running for Relay For Life that can make your life even more productive at:
The ability to discuss
- questions you have and see what others are talking/asking about
(discussion board)
- blog about Relay For Life.
- And a new feature - ideas for Relay - check it out!
- Training tools
- Cancer info
- Find Relay events
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Other Informational Links
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This is a site by Volunteers for Volunteers,
and is NOT maintained directly by the ACS...
Find ideas for many different
areas:
* Team recruitment ideas
* fundraising ideas
* basic information about Relay
* a list of events around the nation
* a Chairman's Checklist Manual
(with list of the basic things
your event can do)
* Darn Good Ideas (great ideas from around the country)
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Relay For Life of Cheshire, CT