America celebrates a number of awareness causes and many of these are assigned special months. This helps organizational groups and non-profits raise awareness for causes and charities over a specific 30-day timeframe, helping bring their causes to the forefront of media attention.
Reminderband, makers of silicone awareness wristbands, works with a number of charitable organizations to help create unique advertising campaigns on silicone bands. These fundraiser bracelets are affordable and extremely cost-efficient, helping charities raise valuable funds for research. What months coincide with certain cause events?
January
- Mental Wellness
- National Birth Defects Prevention
- Thyroid Disease Awareness
- National Glaucoma Awareness
February
- National Wise Mental Health Consumer
- National Eating Disorders Screening
- National American Heart Month
- National Have-A-Heart Day
- National Women’s Heart Health Day
- American Heart Association
- National Cardiac Rehabilitation Week
- Low Vision Awareness Month
- National Burns Awareness Week
March
- Hemophilia
- Mental Retardation Awareness
- National Kidney
- National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- American Diabetes
April
- Cancer Control
- National Autism Awareness
- Counseling Awareness
- National Minority Cancer Awareness
- National STD Awareness
- WalkAmerica (March of Dimes)
May
- Better Hearing and Speech
- Asthma and Allergy Awareness
- Breathe Easy
- Huntington’s Disease Awareness
- Hepatitis Awareness
- National Arthritis
- National High Blood Pressure
- National Digestive Diseases Awareness
- National Mental Health
- National Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection
- National Neurofibromatosis
- National Trauma Awareness
- National Stroke Awareness
- Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness
- National Suicide Awareness
- Childhood Depression Awareness
- National Alcohol and Drug-Related Birth Defects
- National Osteoporosis
- National Stuttering Awareness
June
- National Hernia Awareness
- National Aphasia Awareness
- National Scleroderma Awareness
- National Headache Awareness
- Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness
July
- Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness
August
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness
September
- Leukemia Society
- National Cholesterol Education
- Prostate Cancer Awareness
- National Pediculosis Prevention
- Ovarian Cancer Awareness
- National Sickle Cell
- National Rehabilitation
- Hearing Aid Awareness
- National Reye’s Syndrome
- National 5-A-Day Week
- Childhood Cancer Awareness
October
- Breast Cancer Control
- Health Lung
- Celiac Spruce Awareness
- National Breast Cancer Awareness
- National Liver Awareness
- National Campaign for Healthier Babies
- National Lupus Awareness
- National Physical Therapy
- National Spina Bifida
- National Spinal Health
- Rett Syndrome Awareness
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness
- American Heart Walk
- Mental Illness Awareness
- National Depression Screening
- National Red Ribbon Celebration
- National AIDS Awareness
- World Mental Health
- National Psoriasis Awareness
- National Brain Injury Awareness
- Pastoral Care
November
- Diabetic Eye Disease
- National Alzheimer’s Awareness
- National Diabetes
- National Epilepsy
- National Brain Aneurysm Awareness
- National Home Care
- National Hospice
December
- World AIDS Day
- National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week
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