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Relay for Life | This is the BIG one!

 

Welcome to my Relay for Life lens! I hope you will find this handcrafted lens a unique and useful resource for your 2008 Relay for Life | fundraising experience. I have two goals with this Squidoo lens.

First, Provide YOU with unique, useful and updated information on the amazing Relay for Life organization, the 24 hour walk events, information on what other walkers are doing and unique ways to energize your fundraising, motivate your team & inspire yourself! Re: Custom Buttons | Buttons of Hope - Putting a face on fundraising | North Carolina

Second, I'd like to introduce my
new company Buttons of Hope for your consideration. I started Buttons of Hope to give people like you a way to put a face on your cause rather than just scribbling a name on the back of your t-shirt -- making it easy to create your own custom photo button to honor a loved one. What if all the 3 Day Walkers wore a button with a smiling face!? [More on Buttons of Hope below]

So grab a cup of coffee & take a look around and while you're here check out Buttons of Hope and consider making a custom photo button to wear in support of a loved one during your 2008 Relay for Life!

Official Relay for Life website 

The American cancer Society's Relay For Life is a fun-filled overnight event designed to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research and programs of your American cancer Society.

Here are some handy links to important info...

Cancer: We Object! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Sign up for your Relay for Life here

Relay for Life - 19 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Check out some inspiring photos here

Relay for Life on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Captain your own Relay Team!

Inspire More | Scribble Less with Buttons of Hope! 

You know how it is, the morning of the walk ten minutes before the start and you're hurriedly scribbling the names of loved ones on your back!

At Buttons of Hope we make is super easy for you to make custom photo buttons of all your loved ones before the walk. You know why you're walking ~ now you can proudly show them for WHO!

Less Scribbling....

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More Inspiring....

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Buttons of Hope in Southpark Magazine! 

His Photo Buttons Serve Many Causes...like Relay For Life!

I am honored to be chosen as South Park (Charlotte NC) magazine's Snapshot for March 2008! Buttons of Hope is my passion & I hope this helps everyone understand just how powerful custom photo buttons & putting a face on your cause can be!
read the article here | Photo Buttons Focus on People
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Honor a loved one, Make your own Custom Photo Button to wear in Relay for Life @ BUTTONS of HOPE. 

To the world it may be just a button, but to one person that button may be the world!

Try something new this year! Honor a loved one or support a friend by wearing a custom photo button with their picture at your 2008 Relay for Life walk.

Buttons of Hope


  1. No Minimum - make one button if you like

  2. Upload a photo and add custom curved text

  3. $1 from each button donated to the charity of your choice

Energize your fundraising...Motivate your Relay team... and Inspire yourself! Show everyone WHY you walk!

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Great "Finds" about Relay for Life 

Ideas, resources and links about fundraising & Relay for Life

Relay for Life
Relay For Life is a fun-filled overnight event designed to celebrate survivorship and raise money for research and programs of your American Cancer Society. During the event, teams of people gather at schools, fairgrounds, or parks and take turns walking or running laps. Each team tries to keep at least one team member on the track at all times.
Gmaps Pedometer
Use Google maps to map out your fitness and walkings routes. Design a route for charity events or training. Save the routes or email to friends and teammates! It is FUN and literally as easy as a few double clicks
Stories of Hope!
Find inspiration, hope, and support in these stories about other people whose lives have been touched by cancer.
Second Life Relay For Life
Second Life Relay For Life - Virtually bringing the fight to cancer's doorstep.
I Relay For Life In Medford, NJ!
A blog about the Relay For Life of Medford, NJ, fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. Follow along with Mary, breast cancer survivor, team captain and planning committee member...read more and make sue you check out Mary's History of Medford relay for Life -- good idea for your blog too!
YouTube - Relay For Life 2007 North Raleigh Wake Forest
The 2007 North Raleigh/Wake Forest Relay For Life was held on Friday May 18 and Saturday May 19, 2007 at Wakefield High School's Wolverine Stadium in Raleigh...
SING IT TIM!!!!!!!!!!
Why We Relay For Life Video
Relay For Life is a 24 hour event to help raise awareness around cancer.Join www.relayforlife.org and fight cancer!
Custom Buttons | Buttons of Hope - Putting a face on fundraising | North Carolina
Buttons of Hope is changing the face of fundraising, making it easier, more fun and more rewarding for charities One photo button at a time!

Absolutely everything you need to know about walking from Wendy Bumgardner! 

Whether it's your first charity walk or you are a fundraising champ - Wendy's posts at About.com are interesting and informative. This is really good stuff!

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I'm curious about You & the Relay for Life 

What is your experience with the Relay for Life Walk

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About.com's Lisa Fayed on cancer 

Helpful source for info & resource links about cancer.

Lisa Fayed is a freelance medical writer, cancer educator and patient advocate. In her free time, she likes to volunteer, go antiquing, and of course, spend time with family and friends. Lisa currently divides her time between Washington state and Florida.

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What am I thinking? My Behind the Button blog 

Inspired stories about the people behind the photo buttons we make and some thoughts and ideas on fundraising from Buttons of Hope founder Michael Gibbons.

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Thanks for visiting -- I would love your feedback! 

Was this a useful, unique and fresh source for Relay for Life info?

thomasz

Nice lens. Great info.

Posted February 13, 2008
freelief

Added this to my LENSROLL for my own Relay cancer fighting lens ... good job!

Posted February 04, 2008

Walk in the 2008 Relay for Life to end cancer & Put a Face on your cause!

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"A year ago Mike Gibbons had never done any fund-raising. Now he hopes
to change the world" Regan White in "Message in a Button", Charlotte Weekly November 2006.

Upon reading that I was at first taken aback -- not exactly the kind of thing you want to lead with especially if your stated goal is to "change the face of fundraising". But as I thought about it IT IS PRECISELY what I want people to know and now I open all of my fundraising seminars with that line.

Fundraising is not easy nor is it as hard as you might think. I am proof of that and I am out to help ordinary people do extraordinary things -- the task is not easy but the answer is inside of each of us!

I kinda wish Regan had use this opening line instead.. 

"Here's to the crazy ones...because the people who are crazy enough to THINK they can change the world, are the ones who do."

Maybe the combination of the two sums it up -- I have been lucky enough to find a group of remarkable people, my cycling team MojoRiding and together we have become somewhat of a fund raising phenomenon (often in spite of ourselves I might add!) --we raised over $110,000 in 2007 for cancer and multiple sclerosis causes.

So how did we do it? We personalized our cause, we told a story, many stories! And then we took it a step further we made it tangible -- many of us made photo buttons of our loved ones to wear while fundraising -- can't fully explain it but there is just something powerful about these little buttons  --I have seen it make a difference and in some cases all the difference!

I hope you will take a look around (grab a cup of coffee) at what I am building here on Squidoo. I have tried to make unique, useful and updated lenses on active charity events. If you like the lenses then please visit my blog Behind the Button and of course my website Buttons of Hope -- where you too can go on make a custom photo button to wear in YOUR charity event 

The title of the full quote above is THINK DIFFERENT. Regan was right I am out to Change the World by helping people to not only think different but to be different -- it will change you and together we will be the change we wish to see...I hope one button at a time!

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