Celebrating one more birthday

“As the largest voluntary health organization in the United States, the American Cancer Society is passionately committed to saving lives from cancer. We’re working to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays – a world where cancer never steals another year from anyone’s life. We combine our relentless passion with the wisdom of nearly a century of experience to make this vision a reality, and we get results. We save lives by helping people stay well, helping people get well, by finding cures, and fighting back. Thanks in part to this work, more than 14 million cancer survivors – and countless others who have avoided the disease – will celebrate another birthday this year.”

The American Cancer Associations is there to find support and resources for those affected by cancer. They help fight back.

Their vision statement helps establish an image in which through the help of the volunteers they help fund their research to fight back. They also help establish a mental image in which someone gets to celebrate one more year. They value the importance of everyone who is a part of the organization. Their statement also makes it very clear what they are fighting for. It allows those that are involved to see that their involvement in the organization will hopefully allow someone who is fighting against cancer to celebrate one more birthday. The challenge behind this is that the fight is not easy. It is not easy to find a cure or raise money to fund the research. But the organization establishes it as a possibility and not as something that is impossible.