“Gift of Life” Putting on the Pink

A celebration of survivorship during

October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Putting on the Pink

Project Goals:• Increase community-wide breast cancer awareness

• Generate program funding to provide free mammograms for medically underserved and extensive regional educational outreach

Putting on the PinkOctober Projects• BRA-vo! Applause for the Cause

• An Evening with Marie Osmond

• Pink Shopping Card Project

• Breast Cancer Awareness Month Kickoff

• Tie the Town Pink

Survivor Project

BRA-vo!Applause for the

CauseAn artful expression to increase breast cancer

awareness

Bra decorating art project

• Convey breast cancer survivors’ stories while sharing the importance of early detection

• Exhibits at local art galleries

• More than 50 survivors and community partners participating

Survivor ProjectBRA-vo! Applause for the Cause

Survivor ProjectBRA-vo! Applause for the Cause

“Back in the Saddle”

Survivor ProjectBRA-vo! Applause for the Cause

“Get Carried Away”

Survivor ProjectBRA-vo! Applause for the Cause

“Who Let the Dogs Out”

Survivor ProjectBRA-vo! Applause for the Cause

“Boobles”

An Evening With Marie

Monday, October 185:00pm Dinner & Dancing

Beaumont Civic Center

An Evening With Marie

An Evening With Marie

Monday, October 187:00pm Survivors “Walk of Courage” Downtown Library Promenade

An Evening With Marie

Monday, October 187:30pm Performance, Julie Rogers Theatre• Memorial Musical Tribute • Inspirational Presentation by actor and motivational speaker, Steve Ford, son of breast cancer survivor Betty Ford and former president Gerald R. Ford

An Evening With Marie

Monday, October 187:30pm Marie Osmond Performance, Life Stories & Love Songs Julie Rogers Theatre

Success in 2009:• An Evening with Debbie Reynolds, legendary Hollywood star

• Inspirational speech by Austin Breast Cancer Survivor Gail Chovan

• More than 1,200 board members, sponsors, breast cancer survivors, volunteers and dignitaries attended

An Evening With Marie

Pink Shopping Card

Five Years of Success!

Pink Shopping Card Project

Save Money. Save Lives.

• Discount shopping card

• 20% savings at more than 600 Southeast Texas participating merchants

• 12 days of discount shopping Thursday, October 21 – Monday, November 1

• $50 shopping card is 100% tax-deductible

• Benefits the “Gift of Life” Breast Cancer Program

Pink Shopping Card Project

Success in 2009:• Nearly 2,500 cards sold

• More than 200 volunteers served as ambassadors of the project, working tirelessly to distribute and sell cards and promote awareness of the project as well as breast cancer awareness throughout the community

Pink Shopping Card Project