Start Planning for Wear Red Day, Friday, February 4
Bring Awareness to Heart Disease
January 9, 2011
By: Stacy Sawyer
National Wear Red Day® is Friday, February 4.
Start planning to participate today!
Each year on the first Friday in February, thousands of hospitals, small businesses, multinational corporations, news broadcasters, schools, individuals and even landmarks "Go Red " to help raise crucial awareness and significant funds in the fight against heart disease in women. This year you too can Make It Your Mission to save lives.
Celebrating
National Wear Red Day is easy --- and lifesaving -- from simply wearing red to helping organize an event at your workplace, school or local organization.
To help get out the message, plan your own event with our
Wear Red Day Action Kit Download free posters, flyers and newsletters to share with friends, family members and other important women in your life.
Educate yourself - and others - about heart disease and how to live a healthy life with our Wear Red Day Knowledge Kit
Plan a fundraising event and help raise funds needed for lifesaving educational programs and the development of new treatments to fight heart disease in women.
You can even start
your own fundraising page today!
Remember to become a fan of the American Heart Association on our
Facebook fan page so you can get the latest updates on National Wear Red Day and everything happening with AHA in the Great Lakes Bay Region.
Thank you for Making it Your Mission to Fight Heart Disease!
Stacy Sawyer
Communications Director -- American Heart Association
989-225-7513 (cell)
517-349-3240 (fax)
I invite your questions and feedback.