Thursday, March 31, 2011

$300,000+

We've passed another fundraising milestone! Yesterday we passed $300,000 and are already well ahead of it.  As of 2:00pm on Thursday March 31st we have raised $324,820.63 which is absolutely incredible!!!!

We have to keep fundraising if we want to reach our goal of $750,000 but i know we can do it!

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Until We Find a Cure

Saturday, March 26, 2011

A Quarter of a Million Dollars!!!

Since my last post 5 days ago we have raised $50,000 which is AWESOME!!!

We are a third of a our way to our goal but I know we can reach it! Help us by donating at www.vtrelay.org

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Until we Find a Cure

Monday, March 21, 2011

$200,000!!

VTRelay has done it again! We have passed another major fundraising mark...$200,000 raised online!!  On February 17th I posted that we hit the $100,000 mark and in just over a month we doubled it.
In fact as of the time of this post we have raised $216,704.06 which is incredible!!

We still have a ways to go if we want to reach our goal of $750,000 but I know we can make it.  Donate now on my personal fundraising page.

We are inventing the cure!


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Until We Find a Cure

Friday, March 18, 2011

10 for 10

It's VTRelay's 10 for 10 campaign! It started yesterday and our goal is to raised $10,000 every day for 10 days for a grand total of $100,000

Yesterday was day 1 and it was  HUGE success!! Not only did lots of people send out emails via our website, but we also raised surpassed $10,000 raised in 1 day  :D

Here's the schedule for the next 9 days:
Taken from www.vtrelay.org
Make sure to sign-up (today is the last day to sign-up to get your participant shirt), fundraise and then participate in the largest collegiate Relay For Life event in the world!!

Looking for where to donate, go to http://main.acsevents.org/goto/JulieTerrell2011 and help me reach $1000 by April 22nd in honor of my 4th VTRelay event and graduating from Virginia Tech.

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Until We Find a Cure

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

LESS THAN 50 DAYS!!

Until the largest collegiate Relay For Life takes place on the Virginia Tech Drillfield :D
I cannot wait to be apart of this fantastic event and to celebrate with my friends how much we have done for the fight against cancer.

To think about how important The American Cancer Society's efforts are in helping cancer patients and their families, I heard a song that represents it perfectly: Rascal Flatt's "I Wont Let You Go"



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Until We Find a Cure

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Stacey Kramer's Gift

I was recently introduced to TED talks by a few people (my boyfriend, a roommate and a professor) and decided to look around the website and see if any of the videos interested me.  There are lots about the economy or health, etc... but this is one is different.  It's one of the shorter ones (less than 6 minutes long) but I think it has an incredibly powerful message.  I'm not going to give away what Stacey Kramer's Gift is but she gives a different perspective to her "gift" than most people would.  Take a look:





Now that you know what her Gift is, would you consider it a Gift? Still not convinced? Watch The Last Lecture by Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch and see what he has to say about this Gift:





Their Gifts are definitely not traditional gifts but they are definitely life changing opportunities.  They gave them the door to open to a world full of love and caring and a realization that you should always look for the light in a dark situation.

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Until We Find a Cure






(Wow 2 posts in 1 day? Yup!)

VTRelay = AWESOME!

So I just want to put it out there that VTRelay = AWESOME!!

And here are a few reasons why (taken from our wonderful Productions Chair, Michelle B.)
-VTRelay was apart of the Homecoming Parade
-Have had two incredibly successful Kickoffs (I might be biased here)
-We got Fighting Gravity to come back to Virginia Tech
-We sold out Burruss for Relay's Best Dance Crew
-We just got a giant check at the Duke game for $13,653 for the Blackout Shirts
-As of March 1st at noon we have:

  • 2,323 Participants
  • 405 Teams
  • $136,343.20 raised total
Since Wednesday February 23rd at 10:00am we have raised $22,181!!! That was less than a week ago!

This is absolutely unbelievable!! I could not be happier to be apart of such a powerful, impressive, and fantastic organization.  When I graduate in 71 days, I will take with me 4 years of unforgettable moments with the Relay For Life at Virginia Tech events I have been apart of.  Thank you all for such wonderful memories and friendships.

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Until We Find a Cure