SPAIN - 28 teams, 324 participants and $38,639.47. YES, you are reading those number's properly. A while back, Dan Thorpe followed up with a phone call that came into the American Cancer Society's 1-800-ACS-2345. Dan accepted the challenge and worked with Wendy Perdue to ensure that everything was ordered and given to the event chair, BJ Armel before her event. One time, Wendy had called Spain to talk to this person (BJ) that was serious about having a relay. "It's quite the challenge to help someone overseas and on a totally different time frame," says Wendy.
"These volunteers have worked so hard to have an event and honor cancer survivors battling the disease, raising money to find a cure and just the overall feeling of helping the American Cancer Society," she added.
The American Cancer Society is looking for people with a strong personal interest in the battle against cancer to help decide which grants should be funded by the organization’s research and training program. These “stakeholders,” who have been part the Society’s grant review process since 1999, have a personal connection to the disease, such as having had a family member with cancer, having acted as a caregiver, or even having had a personal battle with the disease, but are without formal science training.