relay for life: where the money goes
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Each Lap Gets Us Closer To A World With More Birthdays!
Team Captain University
West Middle 2011
COMMUNITY INVESTMENTKaren Woldahl Mid-South Relay Advisory Team ChairKathy Farley Volunteer Mid-South Division Training Team
WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?
WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY MISSION:
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.
WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY MISSION:
SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES:????
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
WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY MISSION:
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SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES:Stay WellGet WellFinding CuresFighting Back
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
Finding Cures: Research
ACS: LARGEST PRIVATE, NON-PROFIT SOURCE–2012 GRANTS TO TENNESSEE INVESTIGATORS
•23 GRANTS • $10 M
ACS: PROVEN HISTORY– 46 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS– CANCER DISCOVERIES– CANCER.ORG/RESEARCH
Helping People Stay Well
Society confirmed the link between smoking and lung cancer and has been working ever since to educate people about the dangers of tobacco de-normalizing its use with increased taxes and smoke-free
Helping People Stay Well
Lifesaving cancer screenings like the mammogram and the Pap test are common practice today due to the Society’s promotion. As a result, cervical cancer moved from the second leading cause of cancer death in women to the 13th and death rates from breast cancer are declining.
Helping People Stay Well
The Society builds public awareness about preventing cancer and detecting it early. Take the Health check, a five-minute online test, to find out which cancer screening tests are right for you based on your age, gender and family history
Helping People Get Well
• The Society’s call center fields about 3,000 calls per day, or 1 million calls each year from people across the country facing cancer. Online, 180 people visit the Society via cancer.org every 5 minutes.
HOPE LODGES
Helping People Get Well
• Patients seeking treatment away from home were helped by the Society. More than 6,200 patients received transportation assistance and 128,000 transportation services were provided in the Mid-South this past year
Helping People Get Well
• The Society helps women Look Good…Feel Better about themselves when going through treatment. 4,500 women this year were helped through our Look Good…Feel Better program in the Mid-South!
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
• CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVORS
• 2011AWARDS– 27 TENNESSEANS @ $1000
Nashville and surrounding area
had 8college Scholarships
recipient in 2011
Fighting Back: ADVOCACY
FightingBack: ADVOCACY
• COMMUNITY IMPACTS– PLATFORM TO BE HEARD– PAST ADVOCACY SUCCESSES
• SMOKE FREE TENNESSEE• FDA REGULATION OF TOBACCO• INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MAMMOGRAMS
AND OTHER SCREENINGS• BREAST AND CERVICAL CANCER EARLY
DETECTION• CANCER RESEARCH FUNDING
Empowering People to Fight Back
• More than 31,700 cancer survivors, 14,400 teams, and 160,640 participants in the Mid-South took up the fight against cancer through Relay For Life last year.
In the past century, the Society has helped save lives by helping people stay well, get well, find cures, and fight back against cancer. We have made more birthdays – more milestones with loved ones – possible.
In total, we’ve helped avert more than 650,000 cancer deaths just since the early 1990s – creating about 300 more birthdays each and every day.
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