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  5. Medical Outreach National Telephone Volunteer. Help us reach patients and caregivers nationwide by contacting the offices of physicians who treat bladder cancer and ask them to distribute BCAN’s patient handbook, Bladder Cancer Basics for the Newly Diagnosed, to their patients and display BCAN’s brochure in their waiting areas.

    Requirements: Daytime availability, telephone with unlimited long-distance, have access to a computer and be able to do email and other basic computer skills, report back to BCAN

  6. Online Research Volunteer. Help us reach patients and caregivers nationwide by finding contact information for the offices of physicians who treat bladder cancer so that telephone volunteers can call to ask them to utilize BCAN’s printed materials. Also help us find web pages that should be asked to link to BCAN’s website and request that link.

    Requirements: Access to a computer, ability to do web searches

  7. Local Medical Outreach Volunteer. Help us reach patients and caregivers in your local area by distributing BCAN materials to local healthcare professionals and cancer organizations and/or participating in local health fairs.

    Requirements: transportation to deliver materials to offices and health fairs, report back to BCAN

  8. Local Fundraising Event Volunteer.Organize a fundraising event in your local area and have the proceeds benefit BCAN’s bladder cancer awareness, research, and support programs. It can be as small or as large as you want. Possibilities include: car wash, fun run, bowl-a-thon, dinner party, bunko night.

    Requirements: time, energy, and organizing skills

  9. Online Fundraising Volunteer.Create a personal fundraising page online to raise money for BCAN’s bladder cancer awareness, research, and support programs. For more information, go to http://www.firstgiving.com/7486

    Requirements: time, energy, and computer

  10. Athletic Fundraising Volunteer.Plan on participating in an athletic event (golf, fun run, triathlon, marathon, etc.) in your community and set up a personal fundraising page online (see above) or use paper pledge forms (available from BCAN’s office) to raise money for bladder cancer awareness, research, and support.

    Requirements: time, energy, willingness to exercise and ask for pledges

  11. Write for the Cure Volunteer.Write to twenty (or more!) relatives, close friends, and associates and invite them to join you in giving generously to BCAN to find a cure for this disease that has touched each of us.
  12. Local Awareness Volunteer.Share your personal story with the press and/or plan a bladder cancer awareness activity in your community. Local media can raise awareness of bladder cancer throughout your entire community. A generic media kit is available for background information and bladder cancer basics. But the local angle of your personal story or awareness event can be what makes the local media feature bladder cancer awareness more prominently.

    Requirements: time, energy, organizing skills, willingness to be vocal about bladder cancer

  13. Volunteer to contact your local members of Congress.The federal government is the largest source of funding for biomedical research in the United States, and is capable of moving research forward faster than any organization. Make sure that your representatives know that bladder cancer research funding is a priority. You can do this by visiting your local Member of Congress, organizing a letter-writing campaign, and writing or e-mailing them yourself.
 

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