Invite Your Community to “Go Blue” for Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
Public, private, and civic spaces across the country are going BLUE to promote colorectal cancer awareness messages and activities.
Easy Ways to Get Involved!
1. Invite local landmarks, health care systems, and other local establishments to “go blue” at any time in March that works for them.
2. Request a Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month proclamation from your state or city. (FightCRC can help)
3. Share your story and the importance of colorectal cancer screening on social media, using the hashtag #BlueForCRC.
Want help? Download the Toolkits, Access the Resource Drive, and watch the recording of the Training Webinar from 2022 to get all the tips and tricks from volunteers.
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Informational resources available
FREE educational materials are available upon request, or download PDF’s to share with your family and friends, places of worship, health fairs, and public events.
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The easy to read and easy to share information has been reviewed by our Medical Advisory Council and address the importance of life-saving colon and rectal cancer screening.
Translations available in French, Spanish, Vietnamese, Hmong, Chinese, Korean, and Somali, and more!
TIPS AND TRICKS
From volunteer Allison Rosen
Start early, it is hard to get people to commit at the last minute.- If you see a building that was another color (like pink for breast cancer awareness) it has the potential to turn blue.
- No place is too small, if a bank or other business is blue, call them. The more buildings and landmarks the better.
- If a company, medical center, or business doesn’t have lights ask if they would be willing to wear blue on a certain date and post to social using #BlueforCRC to create social media buzz.
- Share the unified messaging and ask those participating to tweet, share it on social. They like it when they are given exactly what to say.
- PERSONALIZE EVERYTHING! In every email and phone call include your personal connection to the
colorectal cancer, as a patient, survivor, or caregiver. Make it really hard to say ‘No’!
See all of Allison’s tips in the #BlueForCRC Volunteer Toolkit.
SAMPLE SOCIAL MEDIA
(include photo if possible)
- 1 in 24 Americans will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer in their lifetime. Thank you [tagged landmark or city] for going BLUE to support patients and survivors during Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. #BlueForCRC #colorectalcancer @coloncancercoal
- For Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, I’m excited that [tagged landmark or city] is going BLUE to help raise awareness and encourage life-saving screenings for colon and rectal cancer. #BlueForCRC #colorectalcancer @coloncancercoal
- #ColorectalCancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States among men and women combined. That’s why we are going #BlueForCRC to encourage screening for this largely preventable cancer. @ColonCancerCoal
Use #BlueForCRC in all your CRC Awareness posts in March. And add a state-specific hashtag to find others raising awareness in your state.