Since 2007, Paint the Town Pink has raised awareness of the importance of annual mammography across Monmouth County with the help of surrounding pink towns. In 2014 Meridian Health brings this community-wide effort to more than 20 towns in Monmouth and Ocean counties.
For the past eight years, Paint the Town Pink has encouraged every woman, 40 and older, to have her annual mammogram. In 2013, Paint the Town Pink was in 23 towns in Monmouth and Ocean counties, with more business and community support than ever before.
You can join the mission. Encourage women in your community to get their annual mammogram.
It takes a village to achieve the mission of Paint the Town Pink, and every year that village has grown with more towns and even more supporters helping to spread the word that “early detection is a woman’s best defense against breast cancer.”
Paint the Town Pink merges a breast cancer prevention, detection and treatment campaign with a fundraising component that raises funds to provide screening mammography to underserved women in the community.
Members of the community have the unique opportunity to integrate an important message into a woman’s daily routine — whether it is in the places she shops and dines; works and lives; or through her community’s schools and community organizations. Every year in May, as women visit the Pink Partners — local businesses who support the mission of Paint the Town Pink — they are able to pledge to have their annual mammogram, learn about the importance of early detection and annual mammography, and if they choose, support another woman’s mammography through the Pink Fund.
Each year Paint the Town Pink continues to grow.As it grows, more and more lives are touched in very meaningful ways.This is the impact that “Pink” makes in the community. Pink is what you make it, through your support and participation (no matter how big or small) you can make a difference in someone else’s life, even your own. Here are a few examples of how you can impact Pink:
become a volunteer
become a Pink partner
become a sponsor
attend an event
“Pink Your Ride”
make a donation
spread the message of Paint the Town Pink in your community
pledge to have your annual mammogram
For more information about Paint the Town Pink, and to find out which communities are participating, visit www.paintthetownpink.com.