Facebook, Twitter, blogs, Flickr, YouTube. It’s a new world of real-time communication online that goes way beyond email.

Social media is not a new concept to C3. We introduced our Research & Treatment news and Advocacy blogs over four years ago. Now we’re on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/ColorectalCancer) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/FightCRC). What we lack are the resources to take our social media presence to the next level.

Our problem as colorectal cancer advocates is that there are so many wonderful causes competing for your time and attention. To get the attention for colorectal cancer that will help us make a difference against the disease, we know that we need to get our social media campaigns running on a much larger scale. We need thousands of followers and fans instead of hundreds. We need to get people talking about colorectal cancer with their friends and family. People who can talk about colorectal cancer can get others to take action against it.

Enter CommuniCause. It’s a month-long contest run by the MindComet interactive agency to award the winning nonprofit $25,000 worth of services. We want to win this grant and we need your help.

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March 22-25, 2009
Washington, DC

Imagine yourself in the Halls of Congress…fighting for an end to colorectal cancer. It can happen. You CAN do it. Read the rest of this entry »

C3 Board Chair Nancy Roach has been chosen Chairperson of the Stand Up to Cancer Advocate Advisory Council.

Key leaders of national cancer advocacy organizations, the Advocate Advisory Council provides the critical perspective of patients and families as SU2C research is chosen and carried out. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently had a chance to attend the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s Fight Back Express Bus tour when it pulled into Maine’s state capital. I was excited, since things like this rarely happen in my area and with it only being 20 minutes away, I had to go.  I couldn’t miss the opportunity to help spread the word about colorectal cancer and talk about Cover Your Butt.

The Maine Attorney General spoke as well as aides for both of our Senators and our Congressman.  A local oncologist was also there supporting the effort.

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C3 will represent people touched by colorectal cancer with the Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) initiative by serving on the SU2C Advocacy Advisory Council. “Our role as advocates is to help shape the direction of the exciting research that will be funded by SU2C,” said Nancy Roach, C3 Board of Directors.

SU2C is a national effort to raise substantial monies for ground-breaking translational cancer research that will accelerate advances in patient care as well as in cancer prevention.   A program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, SU2C was established by a group of media, entertainment, and philanthropic leaders whose lives have all been affected by cancer in significant ways. They have partnered with American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) to provide expert scientific oversight of this important initiative.

The centerpiece of this initiative will be a nationally televised fundraising event to air on September 5, 2008.  The networks have joined together in an unprecedented collaboration to donate one hour of simultaneous, commercial-free prime time for this program.

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