American Cancer Society Relay for Life Upcoming Events
The American Cancer Society is proud to announce that community led Relay For Life events are planned across Connecticut in 2018. Residents can join together with the American Cancer Society to raise funds and awareness in an effort to free the world from the pain and suffering of cancer by participating, volunteering, fundraising or sponsoring Relay For Life.
Founded by Dr. Gordy Klatt in Washington in 1985, the Relay For Life movement is the world’s largest fundraising event to save lives from cancer. Uniting communities across the globe, Relay For Life participants celebrate people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and take action for lifesaving change. During Relay For Life events, members of each team take turns walking around the track or path to signify the ongoing fight against cancer. Teams participate in fundraising in the months leading up to the event to support the mission of the American Cancer Society.
Last year, 2.7 million participants in the U.S. raised more than $279 million at more than 3,500 events to help the American Cancer Society attack cancer in dozens of ways, each of them critical to achieving a world without cancer – from developing breakthrough therapies to building supportive communities, from providing empowering resources to deploying activists to raise awareness. Join or donate to the Relay For Life movement in our community. For more information on an event near you, visit www.RelayForLife.org or call 800.227.2345.