Gray Ribbons
THIS WEEK!
Brain Tumor Awareness Week in Washington, D.C., May 4 - 10, 2008
We are thrilled so many people want to get involved with Brain Tumor Awareness Week (BTAW) by participating and distributing gray brain tumor awareness ribbons with our ribbon kits!
You may order a complete kit with instructions, pins, brochures and other information by completing the Ribbon Request Form.
This year, you can also request a kit of just ribbons using the same form, if you agree to print out the cards yourself, which will save printing and postage! Most of our ribbons are attractively imprinted with the words “Brain Tumors.” Your kit may contain plain ribbons if we run out of the imprinted ribbons.
If you wish to make your own kits, you may obtain gray ribbon from your local fabric shop and print out these cards to give out with your own ribbons. Please let us know how this works for you by sending us an email to: ribbons@braintrust.org. This is important so that we can include the number of ribbons and cards that you gave out in our 2008 BTAW total! Thank you for taking action!
Brain Tumor Action needs to happen all 52 weeks of the year! Your kit will be shipped as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding and support.
Other ways to participate in Brain Tumor Awareness Week
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Download our Brain Tumor Vigil Text
This text will be read at the Vigil on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 5 PM on Capitol Hill, which is being hosted in collaboration with Hope with Support. Please join with us and conduct your own service at home, at the dinner table, in the living room, at your local place of worship, a support group meeting, the town square. And then tell us about it!
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Download our Scroll of Names of those from the BRAINTMR list who have been overcome by brain tumors over the last decade, which will be honored at the Vigil. (We thank Diane Phillips for compiling this list).
We will include in our Vigil Prayers and Blessings everyone from all our email lists, face to face networks, and friends in the brain tumor community as well. We also have reiki practitioners sending us healing energy at this time.
Thank you for taking action for Brain Tumor Awareness
by distributing gray ribbons!
Gray Ribbons come
in kits of ten ribbons. The kits have everything you
need to make ribbons to display or wear, and also include
awareness information cards you can personalize.
Ribbon requests
for Brain Tumor Action Week, May 4 - 10, 2008,
MUST be made by Wednesday April 30, 2008, to insure
timely delivery by the U.S. Postal service. (Late orders
will still be processed but may not reach you until
later in May, our volunteers will be involved with other
BTAW activities, and will not be available to process
your orders until after BTAW.)
Due to printing
and shipping costs, we are able to send one free gray
ribbon kit per address. (Donations to defray costs are
always welcome.) To request multiple kits, a donation
pledge is required.
To make a donation
in advance, you may print and mail in our online donation
form, or use the secure credit card donation page at
Communityroom.net.
T.H.E. BRAIN TRUST offers a limited
number of FREE gray ribbons. We feel that it is vital
to raise awareness about Brain Tumors and Acquired Brain
Injury (ABI) at no cost to grass roots activists. Donations
to defray costs and support this program are welcome and
encouraged.
Call us at 617-876-2002 extension #1 to request free ribbons, or fill out our ribbon request form. If you are requesting gray ribbons for a fundraiser for another organization or private party, a donation is required. Thank you!
Reasons to wear this ribbon:
- More than 195,000
Brain Tumors are diagnosed in the United States
and Canada each year.
- Brain Tumors
are the leading cause of cancer death of children
under 20.
- Brain Tumors
and Brain Injury can happen to anyone, anytime.
- More research
funding is needed to find successful treatments
for brain tumors.
- More support
services are needed for brain tumor patients during
and after their diagnosis.
- Rehabilitiation
for cognitive disabilities is not available to all
the patients who need it.
- Causes of brain
tumors must be identified, so the brain tumor threat
can be eliminated.
- Many People
don't understand disability from brain tumors or
brain injury because you can't "see" it.
OUR SATIN RIBBONS SHOW UP GREAT
IN PHOTOS!
Please contact us at 877-252-8480 if you would like to work with The Healing Exchange BRAIN TRUST to raise awareness about brain tumors and ABI.
