2025 Elevate Ambassador Criteria and Application

Improving Cancer Survivorship Care Begins In Your Backyard

Elevate Ambassadors are advocates and survivorship professionals who work to improve survivorship care in their communities. Ambassadors receive mentorship, networking opportunities, and the opportunity to attend an in-person training to develop and execute a plan-of-action for their project to serve their local or virtual community.

It may seem like no small task for Elevate Ambassadors to make a difference in cancer care in their communities — that’s because it isn’t. Yet, it’s an incredible opportunity to receive training and mentorship to make a real difference for survivors and their loved ones who are their neighbors, colleagues, friends, and more.

2025 Elevating Survivorship Ambassador Program Application Deadline: Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET.

A sample of 2023 Elevate Ambassador projects:

  • Post Treatment Transition Survivorship Course in Fullerton, California.
  • Men’s Community Support Breakfast serving the Greater Philadelphia Area.
  • Women Inspired to Thrive in Survivorship Virtual Community.
  • Cancer Survivorship Resource Nooks throughout Eastern Pennsylvania.
  • Sexual Health Survivorship Resources in Vancouver, Washington.

2025 Ambassador Program

NCCS’s State of Surviviorship Survey continues to reveal disparities in cancer care by race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geography, education, and age at the time of their diagnosis. These disparities result in disproportionately negative impacts on survivors’ careers, finances, and overall health.

NCCS believes collaborating with advocates and survivorship professionals on a local level is a critical step toward addressing inequity. We welcome advocates and survivorship professionals who are passionate about improving survivorship in their community to apply to the 2025 Elevating Survivorship Ambassador Program. While we encourage all to apply, we are especially interested in projects that address health inequities. Ambassadors will receive support, mentorship, and training throughout the two-year program to successfully direct their project.

Criteria

An Ambassador must be:

  • A cancer survivor, caregiver or survivorship professional (researcher, health care provider, or nonprofit professional), age 18 or older, who has been touched by cancer.
  • Committed to working in a local or virtual community to improve survivorship.
  • A resident of the United States of America.

Preferred Expertise & Composition. Ideal Ambassadors have general knowledge of survivorship, have developed relationships in the cancer community, and have the public speaking skills needed to be a part of presentations and trainings in virtual and in-person settings.

Program and Time Commitment

  • Ambassadors will implement a specific project, including completing a needs assessment, developing goals, creating a project plan and timeline, and implementing the plan.
  • Virtual kick-off meeting on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 4:00 pm ET.
  • Attendance at an in-person training in Washington, DC on Thursday, May 8 and 9, 2025. Travel and lodging for Ambassadors will be paid for by NCCS.
  • Learning collaborative calls/webinars with educational topics on the following Wednesdays at 4:00 pm ET:
    • June 11, 2025
    • August 13, 2025
    • October 8, 2025
    • December 10, 2025
    • February 11, 2026
    • April 15, 2026
  • Mentorship and support by NCCS team.
  • Report progress on project plan goals and action items.
  • Ambassadors will be encouraged to identify a “sponsor/partner/mentor” who will be a point-of-contact for them in their community and work collaboratively with them. This partnership will become a source of accountability and guide the process of sharing their project with the community.

Application Form

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If you have any questions about the program, please contact us at elevate@canceradvocacy.org.

All applicants who successfully submit an application will receive a confirmation email. Please check your spam folder. Contact us at elevate@canceradvocacy.org before the deadline if you have any questions.

Incomplete applications will not be considered for the Elevating Survivorship program. The letter of recommendation must be uploaded into the application and will not be accepted via email.

Applications will be reviewed by NCCS staff, Elevate Ambassadors Alumni and Elevate Mentors. Applicants will be notified of acceptance into the program by March 12, 2025.

  • Applications must be submitted by February 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET.

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