I want to start a cancer organization?

I would like to but Im only in 6th grade. I would like to donate the money to the friends of kids with cancer, because I can't even imagine being my age or even younger and fighting that big of a disease. I mean I would like it to grow but to start just a little one will do. I need some advise on how to get started and what to do for activities. I think a big relay race would be cool but it doesn't matter who your fighting for all the money goes to cancer. Help Please!|||Well I would definitely specify in what type of cancer you'd be supporting. Leukemia, Breast, Brain, Lung, the list sadly goes on. I did a breast cancer fundraiser with my friends. We simply just set up a booth outside of a CVS, had treats for people who donated and we got $135 in about 2 1/2 hours.





Just make posters, hang up flyers, put the word out in a newspaper if you're able, and give people an incentive to donate. Baked goods, ribbons, stickers, etc.|||There are several ways you may want to go about this, one would be a micro-scale setting up a booth completely physical kind of thing, or you could go virtual and set up a website where one could allow requests for donation to be posted so that donors can donate directly, in which case your organization and its portal will be like a bridge that allows donors to reach those in need. That will be easier for you to do as there are plenty of free hosts that are available on the web, you could just register a domain and spread the word.





If you do have the time and the resources to do something bigger, activities such as raffles , races and programmes in association with schools %26amp; other extant charities could work out rather well, too , and the purpose of those could be on-site donations as well as to attract and channel traffic to the web portal, where people may make further contributions.





Either way it is a worthy cause you're working for and I wish you good luck with it.|||Firstly I want to commend you on the public spirit you are showing with this idea.





You say you want to start a cancer organization, but this would involve all sorts of business registrations, tax regulations etc, all of which would require an adult to be responsible.





What would be better, would be to choose an existing organization that works for the people you want to help and hold a fund raising event for them.





You don't mention where you are, but there are organizations in most countries to help children and teenagers with cancer and it would be great if you could run an event to support one of them. In Australia or New Zealand it is CanTeen, in the USA, try Cure-Search.





Why not try and organize this through your school and get everyone involved!