Passionately Pink for The Breast Cancer Cure Program
Passionately Pink for the Cure™ is a new, year-round fundraising and education program kicking off October 1, 2006, in conjunction with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The program encourages companies, schools and organizations to take that promise, make it their own, and make a difference by supporting breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment. Visit www.komenaustin.org for more details or email Lisa Feller at LFeller@komenaustin.org.
As part of the program, companies, organizations, and individuals nationwide are picking one day in October and urging their associates and friends to demonstrate their support by making a $5 donation and dressing up in pink.
Realizing the fact that 212,920 women and 1,720 men, according to the American Cancer Society, will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. Anyone can participate! Recruit your company, co-workers, religious or social group, school, book or garden club, or family, friends, volunteers, researchers and medical professionals to join in a Passionately Pink for the Cure™ day. Register NOW at www.komenaustin.org.
This program is is an easy, creative program we hope will have everyone seeing pink everywhere you look, every day in October, encouraging millions of people nationwide to get involved in the promise for the cure.
You can register your group at www.komen.org, pick your day (or days), October 1 through October 31, to make a $5 or more personal donation to the Komen Foundation and wear pink.
Choose your outfit and make it simple with shirts, tops, skirts, slacks, vests, ties or scarves. Make it cool with sunglasses, belts, shoes, jewelry or the latest accessories.
You decide.
Encourage others to make a difference. In appreciation, any registered group of five or more participants will receive a kit that includes pink Komen Share the Promise wristbands.
Read more of the program at Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
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[…] The Komen Foundation has been at the forefront of marketing efforts for more than 15 years, cause marketing manager Carrie Hodges said. The foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary next year. Founder and Peoria native Nancy Brinker lost her sister, Susan Goodman Komen, to breast cancer in 1980. Komen’s cause-marketing department has a staff of about 15 people, and the efforts of selling specialized items like Ford-sponsored scarves and Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks bring about $30 million into the foundation each year. They’ve had partnerships with companies like New Balance and Pier 1 Imports for 15 years. As part of the program, companies, organizations, and individuals nationwide are picking one day in October and urging their associates and friends to demonstrate their support by making a $5 donation and dressing up in pink. Read more of Komen Passionately Pink program. […]
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