My school is hosting a "Relay For Life" even in May and I want to form a team. The reason I want to organize a team is due to losing my Grandmother (maternal side) to cancer back in 2003 and my Aunt Renee who has stage 4 cancer. When I was younger I didn't really understand what was happening to my Grandmother and even now I don't really understand what is going on with my Aunt, but if I am able to help raise awareness and money to help those with cancer, then I feel that I am taking a step towards understanding.

My question is, how should I go about recruiting a team and fund raising?

I know that I have to have a team of at least five and that each person is to raise $100... so what would you suggest for fund raising?

A really cool quilt to auction off. The five of you could make blocks for it. Just do a lap quilt. When students are away from home, they miss home. A quilt may help with that!

Our group made little things to sell at a booth.mug rugs,bookmarks,hair embellishments,etc. pab

I guess I always did a simple pledge per lap/mile. Is there something that each of these ladies loved that could be a spring board? Example my team was Maisy's Daisies in honor of my aunt and flower seeds went to our pledge donors. We picked a variety she loved and divided up seed packets so donors could grow a plant in their gardens.

My daughter at college is also involved with Relay For Life. I am sending her a lap quilt for her team to raffle. When she was involved here at home they had a variety show to raise money.

Last year I made a quilt that was raffled off. My DH walked on a team but this was a separate donation I made for the team as a whole. It brought in about $320.

I think that a Quilt to raffle off raises more money than an auction. Sell tickets a $1 each or 6 for $5. WalMart is usually pretty nice about allowing you to set up a table outside their door for Charities. Go to the kids Baseball parks and also sell raffle tickets. You could make a quilt made from baseball fabrics for this. Ask if you can set up a table at the gate to sell tickets. Hit up businesses. I wish you the very best of luck! Another thing that goes over wll at Baseball Parks is to sell purses made from ball fabics.

Both my grandmother and my aunt liked Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune... My grandmother loved Elephants.

The quilt idea is good idea, I will look into that..