Volunteer Corner

Your source for stories and information about current BCAN volunteers.   You might be inspired!

Bladder Cancer Awareness Day – July 17, 2010

BCAN is hosting the first annual Bladder Cancer Awareness Day this July!  Local volunteers will be hosting events around the country on and around Saturday, July 17, 2010. More information about events near you will be available here soon.  Events will include candle lighting ceremonies, dinners, walks, and races.  If you are interested in volunteering to help with a local event, please contact Janet McIver at jemciver@bcan.org.

Volunteer Leadership Team

Find out about the members of BCAN’s Volunteer Leadership Team (VLT), who help coordinate our volunteer activities.

Volunteer Stories

Writing for the Cure

And after sharing her inspirational story on our website, Jacqueline Nalls continued to help BCAN by sending a “Write for the Cure” campaign to thirty eight family members and friends. She raised over $1,000!  Read more about Jacqueline’s experience.

Randy’s Run

In December, BCAN supporter Randy Van Dusen ran the California International Marathon to raise awareness of bladder cancer.  Click here to read Randy’s story.

North Carolina Survivors Picnic

Last July, almost 40 bladder cancer survivors and loved ones met in North Carolina at a local event organized by BCAN supporters.  Some had met online, through the online support community, and some only knew about the event because of local media coverage, but they all found a community in which they could talk freely about what they had been through.  One of the organizers, Veronica Tompkins, wrote about the event and her personal experiences there for her local paper.  An abridged version of that story is available here. Veronica’s story shows that small, local events can bring people together from across the country.  News stories about the event were also published by papers in New Jersey and Florida, when other volunteers adapted sample press releases from BCAN to raise awareness of bladder cancer by talking about their survivorship stories.