Monday, October 11, 2010

South Atlantic Collegiate Leadership Conference

Yesterday was the South Atlantic Collegiate Leadership Conference at Virginia Tech.  There are a total of 4 CLCs in the South Atlantic alone this year (UGA, Georgetown, VT and Coastal Carolina).
The theme for this year's CLCs are: "There Is No Place Like Hope" with of course a Wizard of Oz Theme (characters, hot air balloon, yellow brick road and all!!)
"There's No Place Like Hope"


The conference was absolutely fantastic! We got to hear about all of the other Relays in the South Atlantic Division (we have the tendency to only think about our event) and how this past year we were able to raise over $2 Million in growth as collegiate Relays in this division alone! All of the Relay's had remarkable success.  The 2010 VTRelay was presented with many National Youth Relay awards for our success:

Top Per Cap for Enrollment of 25,000+ Students at the University
#1 with $20.75 per cap
Top Number of Registered Survivors
#1 with 136 Survivors
Top Online Fundraising Event
#1 with $417,420
Top 10 Net Income
#1 with $581,656
And the biggest award received, for the 2nd year in a row:
Gordy Klatt Number One Net Income Youth Event
Presentation of the Gordy Klatt Award



Over the last 2 years VTRelay has raised over $1Million with a total of Over $2 Million in the last 10 years!!

At the CLC the VTRelay Exec members were given the opportunity to share our ideas that have led to unbelievable success with the other Relays and Colleges Against Cancer Chapters in our Division, as well as come up with new ideas.

I know that the rest of Exec and myself are incredibly excited to implement new ideas (and we've got some really good ones!) and push the 2011 VTRelay to raise over $750,000!!

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Until We Find a Cure