Guide on How to Raise More Money and Drive More Participants to your Relay using Social Media tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

All of your go-to resources to make your event a success.

The Mega Event Resource page contains resources for the Great West Relay For Life Mega Events ($200,000 and higher).
For the PowerPoint slides, the notes/scripting (if available) is included in the "notes" section of each slide.

The American Cancer Society's Great West Division is excited to launch the Relay Rumblings Newsletter! Relay Rumblings has three main purposes: recognize and thank volunteers and supporters for their outstanding efforts in the fight against cancer, share information about what’s happening with ACS in the Great West Division, and offer ideas and information to support the fundraising efforts of Relay For Life. Enjoy!

The American Cancer Society is committed to protecting the privacy of all our customers, including event participants, cancer patients, Society volunteers, donors and Society staff. As key volunteers, you often encounter information about our customers that is sensitive and private so we want you to be familiar with the guidelines and to support them. For our customers, privacy is important. Unnecessary exposure of sensitive personal information can create embarrassment or opens an invitation for identity thefts.

The following documents describe how to purchase then forward a domain name using GoDaddy.com. When forwarding your domain name you must create the forward directly to your Relay website on Convio. Creating custom website, landing pages or splash pages is not permitted.

Resources and tools for Relay Sponsorship

These resources are for Relay For Life committees, sub-committees and staff. Partnership Agreements are for negotiating a mutually beneficial and satisfactory understanding between two or more parties. This will help Relay events to reach an agreement in such a way that each person positive about the agreement and motivated to do his/her best.

For up-to-date Advocacy Chair resources click the button below.

Companies with 5 or more employees per state.

These are the Relay For Life Entertainment and Activities resources.

This resource includes samples and examples of forms and other documents for the Entertainment and Activities Chair.

This section includes the Relay For Life Guidebook for Event Chairs and Co-Chairs.

Understanding your Relay Planning Committee is a vital element in being a strong and successful leader. These resources provide tips on coaching, basic needs of individuals and how to best recognize and praise volunteers. You will be able to help nurture and grow your committee into a dynamic group of volunteers!

Conducting effective and productive committee meetings is an important step in planning a great Relay event. This section of the Event Chair Tool Kit contains all the tools you need to run a great meeting, motivate your committee and move forward in the right direction.

This section of the tool kit guides you through making the ask, how to prioritize tasks, organizations useful for networking and tips you can use to network in your own community.

These are the Relay For Life Food & Hospitality resources.

These are the Relay For Life Logistics resources.

This is the electronic version of Momentum Magazine, written by Relay fundraisers for Relay fundraisers. It is produced by the Awards & Recognition Task Force as a result of the Top Fundraiser focus group at the 2008 Leadership Summit. The full printed magazine is available for staff to order for $0.37 each through the Shared Services warehouse on Ariba.

These are the Relay For Life Luminaria resources.

This resource includes samples and examples of forms and other documents for the Logistics Chair.

These are the Relay For Life Mission Delivery Chair Resources.

These are samples and examples of monthly activities for ACS awareness campaigns.

These are the Relay For Life Publicity & Marketing resources.

These are the Relay For Life Registration and Accounting resources.

Relay Ads and document explaining how to use them.

This section contains PowerPoint program & script for your local Relay U. Also included are ceremony scripts from the GW Leadership Summit, map of Relay U locations in the GW and other Relay U resources to enhance Relay U for 2009.

These are the Relay For Life Survivor chair committee guidebook and other resources.

These resources includes samples and examples of forms and other documents for the Survivor Chair.

These are the Relay For Life Team Development Resources for the Team Development Committee & Subcommittee. Remember, you want to have one Team Recruitment subcommittee member for every 5 new teams you want to recruit, and one Team Development subcommittee member for every 7-10 teams you want to retain.

These sample forms are optional resources for the Team Development Committee.

This is a collection of strategy tip lists and team recruitment flyer text by specific community segment to support your team blitz efforts.

These are the Relay For Life Youth Involvement resources.

These resources include the Monthly ACS Awareness Campaigns and other resource documents for the Youth Involvement Chair.

The Relay Committee Retreat provides background training for the entire Relay committee, encourage bonding together as a team and activities on how to plan and strategize to make the Relay a success. It is also a time to relax and have fun!! The Planning Guide focuses on logistics, the invitation process, handouts needed, agenda and meeting materials for conducting the Retreat. The Facilitator Guide provides the training information for the presenter, including all handouts, exercises and activities (mini workshops) to educate and motivate the Relay committee - something for each committee member to grow and learn!!

Here are all the documents you need to put on a Team Captain University in your area. There are several versions of TCU available, including a brand new TCU IV version and a new Build-Your-Own TCU menu for those Councils who want to create their own TCU agenda.

Here are the files that are hyperlinked in the Build-Your-Own TCU menu. Please do not remove.