January awareness month starts the year with some important charities and causes. We will be posting each awareness month’s list of charities so that everyone can get an idea of what’s available for wedding favors donations. As we approach the warmer months the lists get much longer….
1 – 31 Cervical Health Awareness Month National Cervical Cancer Coalition 6520 Platt Avenue, #693 West Hills, CA 91307-3218 (818) 992-4242 info@nccc-online.org www.nccc-online.org/awareness.html Materials available Contact: Samantha Thompson
1 – 31 National Birth Defects Prevention Month National Birth Defects Prevention Network 14781 Memorial Drive, #1561 Houston, TX 77079 nbdpn@nbdpn.org www.nbdpn.org Materials available Contact: None designated
1 – 31 National Glaucoma Awareness Month Prevent Blindness America 211 West Wacker Drive, Suite 1700 Chicago, IL 60606 (800) 331-2020 (312) 363-6001 (312) 363-6052 Fax info@preventblindness.org preventblindness.org Materials available Contact: PBA Consumer and Patient Hotline
1 – 31 National Radon Action Month U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Mail Code 6609J Washington, DC 20460 (202) 343-9206 (202) 343-2394 Fax www.epa.gov/radon/nram Materials available Contact: Gina Bowler
1 – 31 Thyroid Awareness Month American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 245 Riverside Avenue, Suite 200 Jacksonville, FL 32202 (904) 353-7878 (904) 404-4207 Fax kpan@aace.com www.aace.com Materials available Contact: Karen Pan
8 – 14 National Folic Acid Awareness Week National Council on Folic Acid c/o Spina Bifida Association 4590 MacArthur Boulevard NW, Suite 250 Washington, DC 20007 (800) 621-3141 x13 (202) 944-3285 x13 (202) 944-3295 Fax ncfa@sbaa.org www.folicacidinfo.org Materials available
January awareness month is also the National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. … January 11 is the Blue Campaign’s “Wear Blue Day”, a day where we can all pledge our solidarity with victims of human trafficking and raise awareness about, and work to end, this heinous crime.
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