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Help end lung cancer! Start an event in your community!
ORGANIZATION: LUNGevity Foundation
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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9 people are interested
Lung cancer is the number one cancer killer. Nearly twice as many women die of lung cancer as breast cancer. Nearly three times as many men die of lung cancer as prostate cancer.
LUNGevity Foundation is changing this reality. LUNGevity is the leading private funder of lung cancer research, education, and support in the United States. Learn all about us at www.LUNGevity.org.
We work with people like YOU in communities across the country to produce events to raise awareness and funding for lung cancer. We partner with YOU to create an event that is perfect for you and your community. We provide resources to help you plan and execute your event, including personal guidance, marketing, and online tools.
Our community volunteers have hosted all kinds of events - bake sales, walks and runs, car washes, bowl-a-thons, dance parties - to benefit LUNGevity. We've had volunteers scale Mount Everest, walk across Europe, and host motorcycle rallies. Our volunteers range from students looking for service learning experience to senior citizens looking to support a great cause... and everyone in between!
LUNGevity's mission is to increase the survivorship of lung cancer through research, eudcation, and support. And it's working! We've made enormous strides in our understanding, detection, and treatment of this disease... and all because people like YOU got involved! Come join our growing family of volunteers!
Interested in learning more about planning a LUNGevity event? Answer this ad or e-mail our VP of Breathe Deep Events, Diana Aldecoa, at daldecoa@lungevity.org. Diana will answer any questions you have, provide information about our programs and resources, and discuss next steps. It's super-easy and painless... we promise!
We look forward to partnering with you for this critical cause and this amazing organization. Here's to creating a world in which no one dies of lung cancer... one community at a time.
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About LUNGevity Foundation
Location:
228 S WABASH AVE STE 700, CHICAGO, IL 60604, US
Mission Statement
LUNGevity Foundation is firmly committed to making an immediate impact on increasing quality of life and survivorship of people with lung cancer by accelerating research into early detection and more effective treatments, as well as providing community, support, and education for all those affected by the disease.
Description
We focus on research because the link between research spending and improved survival is clear. Survival rates have dramatically improved for colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers over the last several decades in step with the exponential growth in their research spending. Our goal is to accelerate progress for lung cancer in the same way, in order to dramatically improve on the current 17% five-year survival rate.
To date, LUNGevity has funded 115 research projects at 58 institutions in 23 states. LUNGevity research investments focus on early detection, because survival rates rise when lung cancer is detected while still localized. We also focus on more effective treatment approaches-getting the right treatment to the right patient at the right time to help people with lung cancer live longer and better.
LUNGevity also provides a community of empowerment, support, and hope for everyone affected by lung cancer through our extensive educational resources, online peer-to-peer support, and in-person survivorship programs, as well as more than 80 grassroots awareness and fundraising events held from coast to coast each year.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Opportunities Available Nationwide!Anywhere in the U.S., CA 91950
DATE POSTED
March 7, 2017
SKILLS
- Organization
- Event Design & Planning
- Fundraising
- Marketing & Communications (Mar/Com)
- Community Outreach
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Generally one hour per week.