I need ideas for planning a comunity benefit for cancer victim?
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a community 5k walk or run. \nfood sale, donation boxes, a few ideas.
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One day at a time. Just remember they want you to enjoy your life so get out there and have some fun. Go do some volunteer work in the name of your loved one. Take on a good cause in memory of that person. Plant some trees.\n\nHave a good life!
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Give her all the supports you can by encouraging and giving medical attention. You have not told what cancer she is having the stage and grade of the disease so that I could have suggested the possible medication and treatments. Any way act as per the advise of your Oncologist. The treatments generally are - surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The treatment side effects are more killing than the disease itself. What to do you have to fight the disease as -\n\nCANCER IS STILL AN ENIGMA.  Best wishes for speedy recovery of your friend.-
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Hi\nMy heart goes out to you. \nYou could go to her favourite place and release a balloon.\nYou could do something you know she would like you to do or she would have liked to do - like go up in a hot air balloon.\nYou could plant a plant in your garden.\nAs you go to church would the church have room in the grounds for you to plant a tree or bush in her memory?\nIf you are feeling rich you could ask the local council if you could donate a park bench with a plaque to her memory on it.\nIf you are feeling philanthropic you could donate something to a charity in her name - maybe a goat for a village in Africa or even a years school supplies for a child in the third world. They would not know but you would. If you are very rich you could pay for a well for a village.\nYou could get a vase and fill it with flowers each year on her special days.\nYou could get one of those composite photos of special events in her life. I don't know the details but they have advertisments for them at my shopping centre so they might have them at yours too.\nSometimes the best thing we can do for those we lose is to do something good for ourselves. They would want the best for us. As I walked up to graduate I told my son (who had been dead for two years) that this was for him. And I celebrated the start of the new millenium for my dad who had always wanted to live to the year 2000 but did not make it. Those two events will always live in my mind as special days for those I had lost.\nAnd don't forget there is always Griefline (you find the number in the business White Pages). It would be fine to phone them on her birthday and ask if you could just tell them a bit about your Mum and how special she was to you.\nI hope these ideas will help you find an idea somewhere.\nGod bless.
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I will be on the charity circuit.  I will help:\n\n1.  Make A Wish\n\n2.  AIDS organizations\n\n3.  Feed The Children\n\n4.  1 in 9 Breast Cancer
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Find a way to help someone in need.
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Get everyone involved call your friends and neighbors to help with the benefit. Give everyone something to do. Set a date. Make poster. You need to call your local business and ask for donation and tell them what you are doing. Have your local news paper to advertise for free.  Have a raffle on something that one of the stores give you. If you can get a florist to donate a plant you could raffle it off.  Me and two of my friends had a befit for a small boy in our home town and raised over $3000.00 We used a vacated lot  and had a huge yard sale and had all kind of activities for kids and adults to do. We even had a local band to preform and Pepsi donate a drink machine. Ask the fire department and police to get involved. Ask them to let the kids look at the trucks and cars.We even got our med helicopter to land and it was a big hit. Have a bake sale. Have someone to sell hamburgers and hot dogs. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Tell the business's you will advertise their name on what ever they donated. And have fun. Good Luck
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Local Hospital or Animal Shelter.  American Cancer Society or Soup Kitchens also.
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Hi, try contacting a Social Worker.  Also see if your hospital offers a Financial Assistance program.  Also I would check with the American Cancer Society to see if there is any information there too.  http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp or 1-800-ACS-2345.   My thoughts & prayers are with you.
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Marie is right.  If you didn't know her personally, a small gift in her honor to a charity is perfect.  Then give a card to your supervisor letting her know about the gift, and that you're very sorry for her loss.  Maybe you could arrange to have the department (if it's a large enough one) pitch in to send her a basket of fruit or cookies or something.  But whatever you do, do it in the next day or two.
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I participate in the Cancer Societies Relay for Life.  My sister and I are co-chairing the event this year... It really is an AMAZING experience (if you are interested in attending a relay go to the website and look for information on events in your area:  www.cancer.org )\n\nI also help to plant the flowers by the side of the road in a neighboring town.... it's lots of fun and helps make the community look pretty all summer.\n\nCurrently, I am looking into doing toxin workshops for child care providers... many of the cleaning products used in homes everyday contain harmful chemicals that are slowly affecting people's health... my goal is to show people how to find safer natural alternatives.
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Call your local chapter of the American Cancer Society. http://www.oncochat.org/ offers an on line support group in a chat like setting. They also welcome family members of cancer patients, so you might want to check it out.\n\nhttp://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/support/organizations   offers all kinds of cancer support resources.
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check out\n\nwww.americancancersociety.org
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There are many agencies/organizations that can help in different ways. Some are for specific cancer types and others are for cancer patients in general. The following site lists a lot of these and should lead you to one or more that can help you. http://cellscience.com/CANCharities.html\nAnother which has been helpful to me, but is not on the previous website, is http://www.cancercare.org/services.html
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put a rubber band on you wrist & hit it everytime you think about ciggerates. or another way would be to read the back of the label...or just go see a cancer patient & imagine what it would be like to be in their place.
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There are always the idea's of gatherings.....here is one that we have used.....ask your neighbors for donations of there old clothing and household things to have a sort of garage sale to raise money for SIDS or you can do a couple gift baskets and sale to the highest bidder.  There are so many cheap ways to put fun raisers together it is a matter to inform people so that you can provided a date and time of the fund raiser. Good luck to you and I am sorry for your lose...my the angels continue to watch over you and your family. \n\n\nSan Jose, CA
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It's always a good idea to find a charity that is near to your heart in some way shape or form.  Lets say you have a family member with cancer - then donating to a cancer charity might be a good idea.  I currently am partial to the American Heart Association due to the fact that heart disease is on the rise.