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Team Kick Cancer empowers people who want to help in the fight against cancer.
Knowledge is Power– by providing valuable cancer education information to your community you have the opportunity to save a life.
How do you define awareness? How can you help encourage others to be more aware about cancer and how it affects so many people? Be creative. Show us how you can make a statement and encourage people to listen. Team Kick Cancer will empower you with the financial resources to allow you to make a difference.
Apply for a Team Kick Cancer Grant: Please submit a 2-5 minute video or 200-500 word essay telling us how you want to help spread the Team Kick Cancer mission.
Request Application Today
Please fill out the information on the form provided and an application will be emailed to you.
All entries for the Spring 2008 Grant must be submitted by 4/15/2008.
Why is cancer awareness important?
MOST Americans are REACTIVE to cancer. We need to work together to educate and encourage individuals to be PROACTIVE.
Here are a few examples:
Jon age 50, Liddon, USA – Raising Prostate Cancer Awareness
Jon just celebrated his 50th birthday. He has a group of friends with whom he plays golf and who also have turned 50 over the past few years. A few weeks after Jon’s birthday his doctor encouraged him to get a prostate exam. His test results came back clear and he was relieved. Through the process of this screening Jon learned how common prostate cancer is at his age and decided to take action. He contacted the local chapter of the American Cancer Society to see if they could provide support materials to help him spread the word. Jon and his golf buddies decided to rent a van and travel to 50 regional golf clubs to disseminate this information and raise awareness for prostate cancer.
---Team Kick Cancer can make this possible.
Renee age 22, Penington, USA – Raising Breast Cancer Awareness
Renee wanted to help spread the Team Kick Cancer mission because she feared breast cancer would affect her and her friends in the future. Renee and her friends worked together to create a straightforward breast cancer self-exam hand-out that targeted college students. Renee worked with university officials at 10 major universities to gain permission to distribute the hand-outs on campus. Renee and her friends personally traveled to all 10 universities to execute the program and encourage young women to get in the habit of doing a breast self-examination once every month. ---Team Kick Cancer can make this possible.
Phil age 41, Jacumba, USA – Raising Colon Cancer Awareness
Phil recently lost his mother to colon cancer. Phil wanted to actively do something in honor of his mother that would also raise cancer awareness in his community. He decided to make a bold statement by building a mass of red butterflies (plastic) on a downtown building. The butterflies signified the number of people in his state that were diagnosed with colon cancer in the past year. Phil also built a website with colon cancer information, statistics, as well as locations in the community where individuals could be screened. After contacting the press, local and regional newspapers picked up the story and included a photograph of the butterfly-clad building in their papers. ---Team Kick Cancer can make this possible.
Catherine age 16, Pepering, USA – Raising Skin Cancer Awareness
Prior to the end of the school year, Catherine worked with her school’s student council to build a program that would provide skin cancer information, and facts to help educate the students about the dangers of the sun. Catherine worked with her school principal to get all of the other schools in their district involved. They also created an educational assembly at each of the schools to communicate the dangers of the sun and hand out sun screen samples to the entire student body.---Team Kick Cancer can make this possible.
Marie 31, Lead Heights, USA – Raising Cancer Screening Awareness (early detection tests)
Marie became more aware of cancer when a good friend was diagnosed with cervical cancer at an early age. Since the cancer was detected early at a routine exam the doctors said that she had an excellent chance of completely eliminating the disease. Marie was surprised when she learned that there are recommended screening tests for specific types of cancers when people reach age 30, 40 and 50. Marie wanted to take action to encourage more people in her age group to learn about these early detection tests so she worked with a group of friends to develop a rest room poster/pamphlet program at local health clubs, coffee shops and concert venues to communicate this message to the 30-40 year old age group.---Team Kick Cancer can make this possible.
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