Team Captain Meeting #1

• Discuss team members’ responsibilities• Communicate, communicate,

communicate!• Motivate, excite, and enthuse your team• Motivate teammates to pay $10 fee • Raise $100 to get t-shirt• Plan fundraising events• Lead by example

How to be a Fantastic Team Captain

• Gives chance to fight back• Teams of people camp out in the Armory• 5pm to 5am on April 24• Raise awareness of cancer prevention

and treatment• Food, entertainment,

and fun!

What is Relay for Life?

Where does the money go?

• Cancer Research

• Cancer Information and Service

• Advocacy and Public Policy

• Patient Support Programs and Service

• Prevention and Early Detection

Programs

Fundraising Tips- Online site- send emails!- Talk to family, friends, family

friends, coaches, professors, etc- Night of the event- mandatory on-

site fundraiser- Come up with a lap idea (i.e. Alpha

Phi & Bead lap)- Sell food or warm drinks- Sell other merchandise as fundraiser

Team Mentoring

• We will be acting as team mentors

• We’ll be in contact with important info and dates

• Feel free to ask questions or voice ideas to us

Things to Look for

• Paint the campus purple: March 12th

• 2nd team captain meeting: March 18th

• Bank night/3rd team captain meeting: April 8th

• Paint the campus purpler: April 21st

Stats

• Alpha Phi and The Committee are in the lead!

• 35 teams• 274 participants• $10,212 raised so far

New Points System!

Prize Ideas?

Registration Challenge

• 5 more people on your team by next team captain meeting- get to theme a lap

• For every 5 people on your team, you get entered to win first to eat at relay

Help us Reach our Goal

• We need $106,415 raised this year to reach 1 million dollars raised in 10 years!

• Less than 60 days to go!• “All you need is faith, trust, and a

little pixie dust”

Why I Relay

• Team members can take a picture holding a sign that says “I Relay for ____”

• They can send the pictures to reason2relay@gmail.com

• They will be compiled in a video to be played at Relay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iqliiXYzXs

Questions?