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Breast Cancer Awareness Ideas
During National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM), nonprofit organizations, the medical community, government agencies, and businesses work together to increase breast cancer education and access to breast cancer screenings. The event began in 1985 as a week-long push for more communication to the public about this disease. It involved brochures, news reports and testimony to Congress on the importance of mammography. The cause gained momentum when former First Lady Betty Ford, a breast cancer survivor, and her daughter, Susan Ford Bales, addressed the issue on television.
Join thousands of others in celebrating NBCAM. Positive Promotions is committed to helping you with your awareness and education programs by offering this catalog of exclusively-designed, effective breast care products. We also donate a portion of our proceeds from these products to the American Cancer Society. In addition, we hold a breast cancer awareness contest that rewards excellent NBCAM activities. This contest enables us to supply you with unique ideas from across the country. Use them to plan an informative and enjoyable celebration.
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Moving Monument |
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Organize a touching display for your facility. Gather material squares, fabric paint and markers. Ask staff members and guests (or students if you’re on a campus) to make flags in memory of someone who has died of breast cancer or in support of someone who currently has the disease. Thank contributors with Pink Pencils and “Strength, Hope, Faith, Courage” Comfort Grip Pens. Fly the flags outside. For added attention, tie pink ribbons to a grapevine wreath and hang it on your facility’s front door. |
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Flower Power |
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Turn an outside area into a place where members of your community can go to be refreshed, during NBCAM and all year. Set up a Garden of Hope. Sell Flower-Shaped Breast Cancer Awareness Lapel Pins and other breast cancer awareness gifts to raise money for the garden’s plants. Make signs with positive sayings. Put them, as well as big pink ribbons, in the garden. At the entrance to the garden, keep “Think Pink” Breast Care Awareness Seed Packets in a container. That way, visitors can take the packets home to have screening guidelines handy and to be able to plant their own flowers.
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Lifesaving Gift |
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In October, let your employees or volunteers know that “a mammogram is a gift to yourself and your family.” Cover doors inside your building with pink wrapping paper. Stick pink bows all over, on cubicles, computers, etc. Cut giant gift tags out of large pieces of paper and write on them, “Gift To Self...Mammogram.” Then hang tags on the walls. Reward people who have had a mammogram in the last 12 months by giving them a gift, such as a Mini Awareness Tote or Awareness Mouse Pad. Encourage more women to schedule mammograms by passing out “Mammograms...A Gift To Yourself & Your Family” Emery Boards.
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Sweet Activity |
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Provide an outlet for creativity while raising funds for breast cancer research by sponsoring a cake-decorating contest. When you announce the contest, let everyone know the cakes will not be returned but will instead be used for a cake walk. Have categories to compete in, such as the prettiest and the largest number of pink ribbons. Award Desktop/Travel Alarm Clocks imprinted with “Time For A Mammogram?” to the winners. Charge a fee for participation in the cake walk. Give an Embroidered Pink Ribbon to each person who pays to join in.
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Pretty Successful |
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Hold a princess party to help women feel young again while they learn about breast cancer. Begin by ordering a Super Deluxe Awareness Assortment With Display Basket. Decorate your event location with pink, sparkly adornments. Ahead of time, round up used princess-style prom dresses and bridesmaid dresses. Offer guests the opportunity to “play dress up” and wear a gown during the event, if they want. Provide a tiara for each guest, and treat everyone like royalty. Have a healthcare professional speak about the latest in breast cancer screenings. End the festivities with drawings for Purse-Shaped Manicure Kits .
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Important Note |
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What goes up must come down. Balloons released into the air return to the Earth and become litter. Animals may be harmed be either swallowing the balloons or getting tangled in the strings. Here are some suggestions for enjoying helium-filled “The Best Protection Is Early Detection” Balloons without releasing them.
• Attach balloons to a cart that is loaded with educational items; push cart up and down hallways as you distribute items.
• Have balloons on hand to give to any children who visit your facility during October.
• Use balloons, each marked with a number, in a drawing instead of raffle tickets.
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Offering Comfort And Hope |
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For almost 40 years, the American Cancer Society’s Reach to Recovery program has been helping women and men cope with breast cancer. Trained volunteers, who are breast cancer survivors, give patients and their families the chance to express their feelings and ask questions. To locate a Reach to Recovery program in your area, to volunteer or to make a donation, call 1-800-ACS-2345. For more information, check the ACS web site at www.cancer.org
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