The American Cancer Society combines an unyielding passion with nearly a century of experience to save lives and end suffering from cancer. As a global grassroots force of more than three million volunteers, we fight for every birthday threatened by every cancer in every community. We save lives by helping people stay well by preventing cancer or finding it early; helping people get well by being there for them during and after a cancer diagnosis; by finding cures through investment in groundbreaking discovery; and by fighting back by rallying lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and by rallying communities worldwide to join the fight. As the nation's largest nongovernmental investor in cancer research, contributing more than $3.8 billion since 1946, we turn what we know about cancer into what we do. As a result, more than 12 million people in America who have had cancer and countless more who have avoided it will be celebrating birthdays this year.

Locally in the Seattle area, our ACS DetermiNation program pairs fundraising for the organization with training for a marathon or half marathon. In early 2012 we had a team of 104 participants who trained and completed Rock 'n' Roll Seattle together and raised over $220,000! Our next season begins in September where we'll train here in Seattle for Rock 'n' Roll Arizona then travel to Phoenix in January as a team for the big race!