Your Dollars at Work

The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service. The dollars rasied through this event are applied in the following wasy to help fight cancer:

Prevention Education
Two-thirds of all cancer cases can be prevented by the individual choices people make. We share knowledge, especially with those who are most at risk, through American Cancer Society programs that teach people about specific cancers and prevention measures they can take.

Early Detection Education
The earlier cancer is found, the easier it is cured. American Cancer Society programs focus on available cancer screenings for a broad spectrum of cancers. The American Cancer Society also partners with health care providers to offer free or low-cost screenings for under or uninsured people who often receive a cancer diagnosis at a later, less treatable stage.

Patient Services and Support
No organization is better positioned than the American Cancer Society to help patients and their families work through the multi-faceted issues that make a cancer journey so challenging. We help cancer patients an average of 50 times daily with a full complement of services aimed at improving their quality of life.

Research
The American Cancer Society continues to be the largest non-governmental source of research funding with astounding results—virtually every major cancer breakthrough in the past 60 years can be traced to Society funding, and 38 of the investigators funded early in their careers have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.

Fundraising
When asked to name a health charity that raises money to address health problems, people name the American Cancer Society far more often than any other organization. Many people who have lost loved ones to cancer find comfort and a new sense of purpose in supporting the Society’s mission to eliminate cancer as a major health threat.

Management and General
Stewardship is a core value that guides administration of all American Cancer Society programs and services. Expenditures in support of our mission meet or exceed standards of charity watchdog groups such as the better Business Bureau, Charity Navigator and Non-Profit Times.