Get Involved - On Your Own
- Donate your Facebook status to Dress in Blue Day by using our sample Facebook posts or spread the word through Twitter using our sample tweets.
- Feature Dress in Blue Day on your website or blog to spread awareness. Use the Dress in Blue Day web banner or logos.
- Talk with your family to learn your family health history. It could save a loved one’s life or yours! Use our Family Health Tree.
- Wear blue in March by ordering a button, t-shirt or other item from the Colon Cancer Alliance’s online store.
- Download and print Dress in Blue Day flyers or posters and distribute around your community in places such as:
- Your favorite restaurant, salon, dry cleaner, gym, etc.
- Your local health clinic, doctor’s office, cancer center and pharmacy
- Around your apartment complex or in your community’s club house
- Contact your local radio station and ask them to run the Dress in Blue Day PSA. You could even offer to be interviewed!
- Send your local newspaper or television station the Dress in Blue Day media alert or press release to promote your event. Be sure to add your event to the CCA’s Blue Star Calendar.
- Work with the governor and/or mayor's office to issue a proclamation officially designating your community's participation in Dress in Blue Day. Use our proclamation templates.
- Hold a Dress in Blue Day educational event using our Colon Cancer Awareness Speaker Kit. Be sure to add your event to the CCA’s Blue Star Calendar.
- Donate 15 seconds of your voicemail to colon cancer awareness by using our voicemail script.
- Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper using our sample letter.
- Light your building or home in blue lights. What better way to grab people's attention than dousing your home or workplace in blue lights?
- Create an online fundraising page to raise awareness and funds for Dress in Blue Day. Through your page, people easily get involved by giving a donation, sending emails to friends and family and/or spreading the team's message on social media.
Proceeds raised through National Dress In Blue Day™ fundraising efforts will benefit
the Colon Cancer Alliance's mission and screening, patient support and research programs.
