A local television station, KGET 17, in Bakersfield, California, broadcast a news report on May 5 on the Bakersfield American Cancer Society Relay For Life® event, highlighting how it demonstrated the global reach of Relay, the Society’s signature activity. Staff and volunteers from Cancer Research UK, a cancer control organization in the United Kingdom, came to this year's Relay For Life in Bakersfield to learn how American Cancer Society staff and volunteers organize and manage their Relay programs. The four Cancer Research UK staff and volunteers, from England, Scotland, and Wales, took away many strategic Relay best practices they can use upon returning to the United Kingdom, from overall management at senior levels to working with volunteers at the community level. They learned how a Relay program can serve as a portal through which their organization can showcase everything they do at the community level in the fight against cancer, and how it can help them raise funds to save more lives. Staff and volunteers from Cancer Research UK and the American Cancer Society were featured in the news report, including Iris Pendergast, lead manager for International Relay For Life training in the Society’s Great West Division. Relay events are now held in more than 600 communities spanning 19 countries outside the United States. To see the news report video and read the related article, please click the following link:
http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=129bdec7-9f68-40b5-ba0a-137422be83ea
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