This Thursday and Friday (October 29-30), the Breast Health Collaborative of Texas will present the 5th Annual Breast Health Summit–a gathering aimed at improving access to care across the state.
Chaired by Pink Ribbons Project Associate Director Loubel Cruz and CanCare Director of Programs Kim Akel, the agenda for the summit is exciting, timely and jam-packed.
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October 27, 2009
5th Annual Breast Health Summit
October 19, 2009
A pink engagement!
This blog centers around the goings-on at Pink Headquarters, which is breast cancer related 99% of the time, but we wanted to interrupt this Breast Cancer Awareness Month to bring you an exciting announcement!
Associate Director Loubel Cruz is ENGAGED!
We couldn’t be happier for our fearless leader and her soon-to-be husband.
Congrats, Loubel!
October 7, 2009
Guest post: Pink Alive – KIDS!
Pink Ribbons Project is presenting a brand new program for the young ones touched by breast cancer. It is called Pink Alive- KIDS! and the first workshop begins on October 24. For more information, http://www.pinkribbons.org/pinkalivekids/.
The idea was brought to Pink Ribbons Project by a couple of fabulous women- including breast cancer survivors–who saw a need [...]
September 29, 2009
Tour de Pink – September 13, 2009
We’ve been keeping busy here at the Pink office…
(note the grey skies and looming rainstorm)
We might have gotten a little bit of rain (ok, a LOT of rain for about 30 minutes there) but the skies cleared and we had one of our most successful Tour de Pinks ever!
But let’s start at the beginning…
We thanked [...]
September 24, 2009
Pink goes country
Complete Tour de Pink blog coming soon (and it will be a big one! with lots of pictures!) , but in the mean time, we wanted you to know that we are going country next week! We are starting breast cancer month off with a twang! We are boot scoot’n boogy-ing!
You get the point…
So, join [...]
August 26, 2009
Pic of the Week: Great Day Houston
Last week, we took over the studio audience of a taping of Great Day Houston! If you were tuning in, you were likely to either
a) see our Ride Director complete with her pink feathered boa, Margaret Shelton, introduce Debra Duncan in the beginning of the show
b) see various volunteers wearing their pink and fidgeting nervously [...]
August 10, 2009
Why do you ride a bike?
As you probably know, Pink Ribbons Project is celebrating its 5th anniversay of Tour de Pink. Over these years, we have met some amazing and inspiring people!
We thought it would be interesting to spotlight a couple of people and ask them- “Why do you ride a bike?”
Introducing Margaret Shelton, Ride Director!
“Fun, friends, health, fitness, causes, [...]
August 3, 2009
Offensive?
In a list of the 15 most offensive, banned and rejected advertisements from all over the world, we found this:
(via http://oddee.com/item_96502.aspx)
This advertisement was funded by The Breast Cancer Fund- USA and was rejected over fears that the public would find the images too shocking.
What do YOU think?
July 28, 2009
Pic of the Week: Tour de Pink bake sale
Our “Pic of the Week” comes thanks to the lovely people at Baylor College of Medicine. They held an old-fashioned bake sale to raise funds for Tour de Pink and to encourage people to sign up for their riding team.
(From left to right: Graciela Gutierrez, Mari Bosker, Glenna Picton, Natalie Zurawin, Dipali Pathak. )
Baylor College [...]
July 23, 2009
So You Think You Can Dance!
We couldn’t help but notice the national spotlight that breast cancer received on Wednesday night on Fox’s hit “So You Think You Can Dance.”
If you didn’t get a chance to see it, check out the YouTube video here:
We know first hand that dance and movement is a powerful way to express [...]
