Organize an Event – A Planning Guide
Choose Event Activities – Serve Festive Food
Choose Event Activities:
• Choose a Program
• Pick a Theme
• Plan Entertainment
• Educate
• Find a Speaker
• Honor Survivors
• Serve Festive Food
• Decorate
Food is always appreciated by event participants, and does not have to break your budget or become a logistical problem if you plan wisely. For example:
• Request participation from local restaurants and grocery stores. They may be able to provide food and volunteers, and challenge other establishments to become involved.
• Recruit volunteers to help you with setup and food preparation, serving, and then cleanup at the conclusion of your event.
• Have medical professionals help out as “celebrity servers.”
• Gather necessary supplies such as decorations, tables, chairs, table covers, serving utensils, grills, hot plates, centerpieces, tubs, ice, coolers, and paper products.
• Ask hospital food service staff to prepare the food.
• Ask a hospital dietitian to create a menu that includes healthy, cancer-fighting foods.
• Serve hors d’oeuvres, a buffet-style brunch, a barbecue picnic lunch, or ice cream sundaes.
• Ask members of a cancer support group to volunteer to bring assorted desserts.
• Have a bagel/danish breakfast, dessert bake-off, pizza party, or carnival fare (popcorn, peanuts, sno-cones, and cotton candy).
• Provide the meat, but request that participants bring a vegetable or salad for a potluck dinner. Or, provide dessert and drinks, but ask attendees to bring their own picnic lunches.
• Serve a “Celebration of Life” cake with the NCSD logo in red, white, and blue frosting. Light candles for each survivor present.
• For an evening celebration, conclude with hotdogs and marshmallows over a bonfire.
The 25th annual National Cancer Survivors Day is Sunday, June 3, 2012.
Table of Contents
Welcome! Getting Started
Deadlines
Step 1: Register the Event
Step 2: Get Sponsors
Step 3: Pick a Location
Step 4: Choose Activities
Step 5: Order Merchandise
Step 6: Promote the Event
Sample Letters
More Resources
2011 Event Coverage and Photos
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2012 National Sponsor
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Organize an Event – A Planning Guide
Choose Event Activities – Serve Festive Food
Choose Event Activities:
• Choose a Program
• Pick a Theme
• Plan Entertainment
• Educate
• Find a Speaker
• Honor Survivors
• Serve Festive Food
• Decorate
Food is always appreciated by event participants, and does not have to break your budget or become a logistical problem if you plan wisely. For example:
• Request participation from local restaurants and grocery stores. They may be able to provide food and volunteers, and challenge other establishments to become involved.
• Recruit volunteers to help you with setup and food preparation, serving, and then cleanup at the conclusion of your event.
• Have medical professionals help out as “celebrity servers.”
• Gather necessary supplies such as decorations, tables, chairs, table covers, serving utensils, grills, hot plates, centerpieces, tubs, ice, coolers, and paper products.
• Ask hospital food service staff to prepare the food.
• Ask a hospital dietitian to create a menu that includes healthy, cancer-fighting foods.
• Serve hors d’oeuvres, a buffet-style brunch, a barbecue picnic lunch, or ice cream sundaes.
• Ask members of a cancer support group to volunteer to bring assorted desserts.
• Have a bagel/danish breakfast, dessert bake-off, pizza party, or carnival fare (popcorn, peanuts, sno-cones, and cotton candy).
• Provide the meat, but request that participants bring a vegetable or salad for a potluck dinner. Or, provide dessert and drinks, but ask attendees to bring their own picnic lunches.
• Serve a “Celebration of Life” cake with the NCSD logo in red, white, and blue frosting. Light candles for each survivor present.
• For an evening celebration, conclude with hotdogs and marshmallows over a bonfire.
Table of ContentsWelcome! Getting StartedDeadlinesStep 1: Register the EventStep 2: Get SponsorsStep 3: Pick a LocationStep 4: Choose ActivitiesStep 5: Order MerchandiseStep 6: Promote the EventSample LettersMore Resources2011 Event Coverage and Photos
2012 National Sponsor
Click on Logo