National Volunteer Week

During National Volunteer Week, we want to personally thank you for helping lead the fight against cancer. Because of your volunteer efforts, the American Cancer Society saves lives and creates a world with less cancer and more birthdays. Together, we are making a difference. 

Volunteers have always been the cornerstone of the American Cancer Society. As the world’s largest voluntary health organization, the Society simply would not exist without dedicated and talented people working together in communities throughout the United States. Since it was created in 1913, the Society has depended on volunteers to advance progress in the fight against cancer, and today that is no different. The Society is able to continue its great work to eliminate cancer as a major health problem only because of the service and leadership of committed volunteers like yourself who passionately believe in the hope for a cancer-free future.

 Without our cadre of volunteers, cancer might still be a mysterious killer and cancer patients might still be facing impossible odds. Instead, there is more hope today than ever before for people facing cancer and their families. And it is the collective power of more than three million friends and volunteers working to fight cancer on all fronts that keeps that hope alive and growing.

From holding Relay For Life^® events in over 5,000 communities, to providing free transportation to cancer patients in treatment, to working with lawmakers to make cancer a national and local priority, Society volunteers are fundamental to the progress we are making to reach our 2015 goals of reducing cancer incidence and death, as well as eliminating suffering and improving quality of life. And it is your support that enables the Society to offer information, day-to-day help, and emotional support to people facing cancer and their families, when and where they need it.

So, thank you for all that you do and we hope that you remember how special a simple thing like a birthday can be.  It’s a celebration of life, a marker of progress toward our goal that is made possible by YOU!