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Lauren and Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research

Help Cancer Kids go on the Rally Fantasy Baseball Tour this summer!Lauren and Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research

COMPETED FOR

$50K
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Competed in
May, 2010

Goals

  • Take local cancer family from each city to 14 Major League ballparks
  • Visit 14 children's hospitals to give goodie bags to cancer patients
  • Hold grassroots, community fundraisers in each of the 12 cities
  • Educate the community that kids and adults get different cancers
  • Raise awareness for the need for more childhood cancer research

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Overview

Kids’ days should be filled with laughter, friends and playtime, not hospitals, chemotherapy and medicine.  As a survivor, I believe it is my job to make it that way. 

The Rally Fantasy Baseball Tour will raise money and awareness for childhood cancer research, as well as provide children currently battling cancer with the hope and determination to fight another day.  Rally staff will embark on a 35-day tour taking childhood cancer patients and their families to visit 14 Major League ballparks, concluding at the All-Star Game in Anaheim.  We will meet the players, attend the games, hold a bubble-blowing contest and plan a fundraiser in each city.  Additionally, we will visit 14 Children’s Hospitals to hand out goodie bags donated by sponsors to children too sick to attend the events. 

No matter what, I will not stop working until children are no longer faced with cancer. My hope is that the voters and Pepsi will help make this dream a reality.

How will the 50K be Used?

Budget Notes: Our budget does not include the All-Star Celebration in Anaheim, the hospital visit collateral, local fundraiser costs and the t-shirt costs, which we plan to have covered through sponsorship. Rally Foundation and local volunteers will work to obtain sponsors two months prior to the events.
$ 11,550 Meals- $35 a day X 33 days X 10 people
$ 9,900 Hotels- 3 rooms at $100 per night X 33 nights
$ 8,000 Printing- Sponsorship packets, posters, banners, collateral
$ 7,490 AmTrak- 45-day pass= $749 X 10 passes
$ 6,300 All-Star Rally Family Travel- $300 round trip to Anaheim for 21 people
$ 2,800 Game Tickets- $10 X 20 people X 14 games
$ 1,960 Food at games- $14 X 10 people X 14 games
$ 800 Gas- for rental vans
$ 700 Van rental- $35 a day X 20 days
$ 500 Mobile Text Cost- For texting "Rally" to donate
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