Virtual Challenges
UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge
October 07, 2023
October 07, 2023
No matter where you are, join the movement to raise funds and awareness for life-saving cancer research.
Register as a virtual fundraiser and choose how you want to support the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge in 2023.
Use the hashtag #anticancerchallenge to share why and how you’re participating.
All virtual fundraisers who register on or before end of day Thursday, Sept. 14 will receive the official 2023 UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge kit in the mail by Challenge Day on Saturday, Oct. 7 (pending shipping transit times). Virtual participants who register after this date will receive their kit after Challenge Day.
Whether you choose from any of the virtual challenges above or create your own, every dollar you raised goes directly to life-saving cancer research!
Questions? We're here to help! Email us at anti-cancerchallenge@uci.edu.
Use the hashtag #anticancerchallenge to share why and how you’re participating.
All virtual fundraisers who register on or before end of day Thursday, Sept. 14 will receive the official 2023 UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge kit in the mail by Challenge Day on Saturday, Oct. 7 (pending shipping transit times). Virtual participants who register after this date will receive their kit after Challenge Day.
Create your own challenge or join any of the virtual activities below:
1. My Challenge Day
This is your chance to bring Challenge Day to your own community! Choose the location, date and distance for your solo ride/run/walk or with friends and family.
- How It Works
- Register as a virtual participant. Create a team by encouraging your friends and family to also register as virtual participants. All participants will have a minimum fundraising goal of $50.
- Plan your Challenge Day details including date, location and distance. You can even create your own team fundraising goal for the big day!
- Leading up to your Challenge Day, share with your community about why you are supporting the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge. Ask for donations to help you reach your fundraising goal and be sure to let them know that 100% of the funds you raise go directly to cancer research.
2. 100-Mile Virtual Challenge
There are over 100 different types of cancers. Together, we are determined to raise funds for research that can provide new insights on how we prevent, treat and cure all cancers. Make a difference by joining the 100-mile virtual challenge and ride, run or walk 100 miles by Oct. 7.
- How It Works
- Register as a virtual participant. Create a team by encouraging your friends and family to also register as virtual participants and join you in the 100-mile virtual challenge. All participants will have a minimum fundraising goal of $50.
- Download the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge app to track your miles and fundraise on the go!
- Choose your training schedule. Start small if you are a first-time rider, runner, walker! Challenge yourself to go one mile a day for a few weeks before building up to three miles or more a day.
- Share with your community about why you are participating in the 100-Mile Virtual Challenge. Ask for donations to help you reach your fundraising goal and be sure to let them know that 100% of the funds you raise go directly to cancer research.
3. I Challenge You…
Don’t feel like riding, running or walking for your virtual challenge? Make it your own and create any activity challenge for yourself and others!
- How It Works
- Register as a virtual participant. Create a team by encouraging your friends and family to also register as virtual participants and participate in your challenge. All participants will have a minimum fundraising goal of $50.
- Decide on your challenge. Whether it be to do 50 push-ups, swim 10 laps, learn a new sport or take on a new hobby, challenge yourself!
- Share your challenge with your friends, family and community on social media. Let them know why you are supporting the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge and encourage them to make a difference by joining your challenge or by making a donation toward your fundraising goal. Every dollar you raise goes directly to cancer research.
4. Build an Anti-Cancer Challenge Community
The end of cancer starts here because of you! Help us spread the word about the impact of cancer research and grow the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge community.
- How It Works
- Register as a virtual participant. Create a team by encouraging your friends and family to also register as virtual participants. All participants will have a minimum fundraising goal of $50.
- Help spread the word and possibly double your impact! Some companies match their employees’ donations to nonprofits. Click here to find out if you or your spouse/partner work for a matching gift company.
- Rally your friends and family and go out into your community to connect with local businesses! Ask if they would like to support the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge by sharing physical flyers, putting up a poster or posting on their website/social media.
- Use our pre-made email template or script
- Download the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge flyer
- Become a social media ambassador. Use your social media platforms to share about the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge with your friends, family and community. Let them know why you are supporting the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge and encourage them to make a difference by helping you spread the word or by making a donation toward your fundraising goal. 100% of the funds you raise go directly to cancer research.
- Share your story
- Download our social media toolkit
5. Messages that Matter
The UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge brings together so many within the community to defeat cancer. Submit supportive messages to our researchers, our participant cancer fighter and survivors to remind them that we are all together in the fight against cancer.
- How It Works
- Register as a virtual participant. Create a team by encouraging your friends and family to also register as virtual participants. All participants will have a minimum fundraising goal of $50.
- Make a day for yourself or with your family and friends to create supportive messages for cancer researchers, fighters or survivors. Be creative!
- Type a message that you would like to be shared.
- Create handwritten cards or drawings. Take photos/scan them to email to us.
- Record a video message.
- Submit all messages by emailing anti-cancerchallenge@uci.edu.
- Share a photo or video of your activity on social media to encourage your friends and family to make a difference by joining the cause. Let me them know they can also donate toward your fundraising goal with every dollar you raise directly supporting cancer research. 100% of the funds you raise go directly to cancer research.
Whether you choose from any of the virtual challenges above or create your own, every dollar you raised goes directly to life-saving cancer research!
Questions? We're here to help! Email us at anti-cancerchallenge@uci.edu.
