2003 Relay for Life Team Totals...another wonderful effort:  $138,792.22 !
(Only $7,000 worth of expenses were incurred: that's a 95% rate of efficiency)

Hot sun, a little rain, and many warm hearts prevailed at Marshfield's 10th annual Relay for Life, as a
safe, wonderful, and successful event was held on Aug. 1-2, 2003.  This year's Relay for Life continued
the incredible accomplishments made only through the efforts of the dedicated Team Captains,
Committee Volunteers, and Community Support.  Each year brings renewed hope that with
each passing Relay, our community's belief of a cure for cancer comes a little closer to reality.

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That's a total of 44 teams,  hundreds of walkers, and a whole bunch of fun!

Other Totals include:
Sponsors:
Marshfield Clinic, $2,500  St. Joseph Hospital, $2,500
Schueller Family - $1,200
Team Registrations - $6,600
1,000+ Luminaries - $5,246
Concession Stand - $1,368
Ice Cream Truck - $121
Marshfield City Hall Employees - $500
Bucks Basketball Raffle - $65
Misc. Donations - $2,741
"Late Starting" Teams:
Mfld. Tiger Football - $100
Mona's Angels - $321
Seebold Family Team - $570
Thorogood Credit Union - $486
Gehman Family Team - $230
Marshfield Center Team - $451
Maurer Family Team - $85
Mfld. Police Dept. - $118
With Relay for Life expenses totaling approx. $7,000, we have a NET INCOME of over $131,000!
THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR AN INCREDIBLE EVENT!

 
Team Captains' Job Description

1) Contact chair Corinne Johnson, tel (715)676-2549, and get the Team Captain's Packet, which is loaded with everything you need to get your team started.

2) Recruit at least nine other people to be on your team and provide a participant's packet to each person.

3) Meet with your team members to challenge them and provide incentives to promote competition.  Set a team fundraising goal of at least $1,000.  Will your team dedicate its efforts to someone who has or has had cancer?  Perhaps your team can be sponsored by a business, community organization, or church group.

4) Distinguish your team with a team name and theme, campsite decorations, signs, and other ways to provide a spirited experience for all.  Be sure to celebrate your team's accomplishments.

5) Turn in your team roster and registration fee in order to get T-shirts, food, etc.  (The T-shirts are actually ordered several weeks earlier during a Relay for Life committee meeting.)

6) Check each team members progress toward his or her goal.  Meet often with your team to recognize successes and promote tea spirit.  Learn from each other's fundraising successes.

7) Let everyone know what to bring to the event.  Secure your campsite.  Have fun!!

Great Fundraising Ideas

Auctions
Ask for a donation of goods or services to be auctioned off at work.  Suggest unique or personal things, such as works of art, a cocktail cruise on someone's boat or pontoon, dinner for six at someone's home, dessert every month for a year, etc.  Display the item (or their descriptions) and hold the auction over lunch hour or at some other convenient time.

Garage Sales
Give all or part of the proceeds from your garage sale to the Relay for Life.  Or, get your company to hold a sale for no longer needed items like furniture, computers, printers, office supplies, etc.

Donation of Sales
Encourage your company to set aside a percentage of sales made during a certain time period.  Example--$5.00 from each oil change performed on each Monday in the month of June would be donated to the Relay for Life.

Freddie the Flamingo
An eight year old boy in Mississippi put "Freddies" in peoples' yards with a note around his neck asking for a donation for the Relay for Life.  I you give a donation, "Freddie" will "fly off" to another yard.  This youngster raised more than $6,000 !

Casual Day
Employees pay $5.00 to dress in casual attire.

Bake Sale
Employees bring scrumptious homemade pies, cookies, and brownies to be either sold or eaten at work, with the proceeds being marked for the Relay for Life.

Candy Counting Contest
Have people give a donation to guess the number of jellybeans, M & Ms, or Life Savers in a big jar.  This concept is easy to administer and is great for setting out in a lobby or other central area.  A prize in offered to the winner at the end of the contest.

Aquarium Quarter Drop
A fish aquarium, filled with water and containing only an empty shot glass, is placed in a central location, such as a lobby or cafeteria. People are encouraged to try and drop quarters into the shot glass.  A successful "drop" results in a small prize (candy bar, etc.) This game is especially popular with children.  All quarters are then collected and used to pay for a Relay team's entry fee.

Reserved Parking
Auction off  the use of "premium"  parking spots for a week, month, or even full year.

Baby Photo Contest
Employees bring in baby photos of themselves.  Each person pays $1.00 to guess who the babies might be.  The person with the most correct answers wins a prize.

Vending Machines
Raise the cost of your company vending machines by $0.10 per item for a month.

Potluck
Office volunteers bring in a potluck breakfast or lunch.  Charge $5.00 for an all-you-care-to-eat home cooked meal.

Change Jar
Ask employees to drop their spare change into a specially designated jar.  Have departments compete to see who can fill their jars with coins first.

Pizza Sale
Ask your company to purchase pizzas; prepare and sell them off at $1.00 per slice and donate the proceeds.

Pie Tossing Contest
Ask managers to participate in a pie tossing contest.  Participants pay $5.00 for the opportunity to toss pies at their supervisors (and not get reprimanded!)

Yellow Ribbon Sale
For $1.00, employees can purchase a yellow ribbon in honor of a friend or loved one who has had or is presently fighting cancer.  Create your own wall to list the names of these people.

How to Raise $100 in 10 Days

Day  1:             Put in your own $10                                                                           Running Totals:     $10
Day  2:            Ask your spouse or significant other for $10                                                                  $20
Day  3:            Place a jar on your desk or other place at work                                                             $30
Day  4:            Ask a co-worker for $10                                                                                                        $40
Day  5:            Ask a friend for $10                                                                                                                $50
Day  6:            Ask a relative for $10                                                                                                             $60
Day  7:            Ask your neighbor for $10                                                                                                   $70
Day  8:            Ask a person from church to donate $10                                                                         $80
Day  9:            Ask a business you frequent for $10                                                                                 $90
Day 10:           Ask a local service organization                                                                                      $100

What Cancer Can't Do

Cancer is so limited...

It cannot cripple love.
It cannot shelter hope.
It cannot corrode faith.
It cannot eat away peace.
It cannot destroy confidence.
It cannot kill friendships.
It cannot shutout memories.
It cannot silence courage.
It cannot invade the soul.
It cannot reduce eternal life.
It cannot quench the spirit.
It cannot lessen the power of resurrection.

Bank Night:

Bank Night is an opportunity to turn in team money that has been collected, and to pick up T-Shirts.  This will relieve some congestion under the Registration Tent at the Relay.  And it's easier on everyone if most of the "paperwork" is taken care of ahead of time.  That leaves more time for enjoyment at the Relay!  Of course, anyone who can't attend Bank Night, may turn in your Team money at the Relay, just as in previous years.