Posts Tagged ‘Breast cancer prevention’

Become a Member and be Entered to WIN Awesome Prizes!

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Anyone can become a Keep A Breast Foundation Member with as little as a $25 donation! But if you find us out on the road at our traveling education booth you can become a KAB member for only $15! Becoming a member will help increase breast cancer awareness among young people so they are better equipped to make choices and develop habits that will benefit their long-term health and well being. Your tax deductible donation will help eradicate breast cancer by supporting our efforts of exposing young people to methods of prevention, early detection and support.

By joining our membership you are also automatically entered to win amazing prizes! This summer Keep A Breast has teamed up with SJC Drum and Venture Guitars for some amazing prizes including a SJC custom drum head and Venture custom guitar. Hurry up and become a member today!

Hurry! Application for the KAB Grants ends soon!

Friday, July 9th, 2010


Emergen-C Pink® and The Keep A Breast Foundation are awarding up to five (5) $10,000 research grants to admirable organizations or individuals dedicated to putting an end to breast cancer through positive impact.

Keep A Breast wants to encourage others to help us spread the word about breast cancer prevention, early detection, and the importance of living a healthy toxic free lifestyle through our grants program. Our actions impact the world on a higher note than most realize. In this fast paced world we live in, it is easy to forget to be our own leaders daily. Keep A Breast is looking for these leaders and organizations that are taking a stand to make the world a better, healthier place for future generations through alternative care, environmental effects or cutting edge research.

Click here to learn more!!

Zumiez Couch Tour Week 5!

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Hey guys its Shana & Ant, your friendly Keep A Breast volunteers from the Zumiez Couch Tour!

We are going on our fifth week of tour and we have had some crazy adventures and experienced some erratic weather to say the least. At this point we have hit all of our west coast and southern events, and the kids have had some amazing responses to our Imagine If… Campaign!

We have also had some extra time to see some family and friends along the way and have received overwhelming positive reaction to our work with KAB. It seems like everyone we meet wants to get involved, including some of the bands and skate teams who have joined us on the tour. We have had the opportunity to meet up with the bands Just Surrender and Hit the Lights, and the skate teams for Lakai, DGK, and Volcom. Thanks to all those guys for rockin the KAB wear and being all around awesome dudes!

Throughout our journey we have been trying to meet up with artists to each paint 1 of 12 KAB skateboard decks to be raffled off at the end of tour. We met up with our buddy Mike O’Farrell who is an awesome tattoo artist in Colorado who so generously donated his time and skills to one of these decks. We’re looking forward to seeing what other artists we can bump into to get crafty with us over the next 2 weeks.

Gorilla gardening with the seed bombs from GreenAid has been amazing! We have been throwing these little balls of clay and aggressive growing plants all over this country to help reduce our carbon footprint! We have even recruited a few gorilla gardening pirates to help us make a difference as we go along.

Follow our adventures on facebook.com/keepabreast and twitter.com/keepabreast we are posting daily blurbs on where we are and what were doing. We have come a long way and have a long way to go but its been a truly beautiful experience so far. We are looking forward to seeing what lies ahead on the East Coast for the last few events. If you have missed us on the road or just can’t get enough – Here is live video feed from today’s event!

Keep A Breast wraps up the Country Throw Down

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Keep A Breast was so thankful to be on the Country Throw Down. We had so many amazing new fans come by the tent and pick up a Check Your Self! card and information on breast health and cancer prevention. Fans and band members alike participated in the Keep A Breast “This is My Story” and “Imagine If” Campaigns and got their hands on I Love Boobies merchandise with 100% donations going towards KAB’s education and prevention programs! We even had bands buying bunches of bracelets to send out to their fans and talk about us on stage. We are so so thankful these artists have donated their time to help us educate today’s youth through their music, art and inspiration.

Invite A Cure Keep A Breast Music For Awareness Show!

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

June 12th
Invite A Cure
Quakertown Memorial Park
Quakertown, PA. 18951
11am – 8pm
Admission into the Park is FREE, but food, games, activities all vary in cost.

S.F.B
Tune In Tokyo
Call It Victory
The Snails
Hiccup Hellen
Valet Parking
Score 24 –Headliner!

“I wanted to throw an event for KAB because I feel as though young people don’t realize that breast cancer and many other forms of cancer and life threatening diseases can affect them regardless of age. Cancer has no morals, It takes you when your weak, and can get you when your young. KAB is a great way to show kids and people of all ages the precautions to take to help be more aware of breast cancer. Most of us are affected by breast cancer some way, weather it is direct, like knowing a family member who is diagnosed, or having it yourself. Or, indirect by knowing a friend who knows someone. It is still all around us, and growing. Together we can help raise this awareness!” Adam Hippeli

If you are unable to attend the event, but you would still like to donate to the cause, please visit our FirstGiving Fundraising (http://www.firstgiving.com/ericaleite) page to donate to this event!

“I was overwhelmed! it was one of the greatest experiences of my life.”

Monday, June 7th, 2010

The KAB Treasured Chest Program is making a huge IMPACT by supporting women recently diagnosed with Breast Cancer. KAB recently had the opportunity to cast at the AMAZING Bergamot Spa in Encinitas. Thanks to Bergamot these women received FREE pampering spa treatments in a nurturing atmosphere.

Many of our castees had wonderful things to say about the experience and we are so thankful to them for letting us be a part of their journey. Susan whom had just finished chemotherapy and says, I was overwhelmed! it was one of the greatest experiences of my life.”

Meeting my fellow breast cancer sisters and each of us exchanging our cancer battles to having a Facial and experiencing the new Reconnective Healing treatment and best of all was having my torso casted.  I can honestly say this has been one of the most remarkable experiences I’ve had since being diagnosed with breast cancer!”Jeannette

Carrie who was casted after recently had surgery spoke about the treasured chest program – “kindness, compassion and heartfelt desire to educate others through these casts will continue to resonate within. The pampering at Bergamot Spa after my casting was a sublimely blissful way to reflect upon my journey and peacefully contemplate my overwhelming gratitude for my health and experience with breast cancer”!

Thank you to all the Treasured Chest participants! You continue to inspire us! Thank you to Bergamot Spa for the heavenly location, Francine O Gonzalez for documenting the day with photos, and the Quiksilver Foundation for proudly supporting this KAB program! If you know someone who would be a perfect fit for this program or for more info contact: missnixon@keep-a-breast.org.

Keep A Breast wants help going from Pink to Green

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

As Keep A Breast grows we want to stay true to our word of living non-toxic, we are doing everything we can to turn our foundation completely GREEN from inside and out! We are evaluating everything we do from shipping, touring, product production and even what we eat at lunch we want to be a role model for other foundations to become sustainable and non-toxic.

The KAB Non Toxic Revolution’s aim is to inform and educate young people about the dangers of toxic chemicals (in our environment and food supply) and their link to breast cancer initiation. NTR’s aim is to inspire a focus on prevention as a means to maintain long-term health and well-being. As part of this Non Toxic Revolution we also provide alternative choices so that young people everywhere can make smart choices. And we couldnt tell you to do something that we haven’t tried ourselves! So follow us in this six month journey as we turn KAB from Pink to Green by this October!

Notice in the video we are driving to work… not very green right! make sure to stay tuned for our next video to see what changes we have made!

Send us your tips and idea’s and stories on how you are greening your community.

Keep A Breast VLOG from Country Throw Down

Friday, June 4th, 2010


Keep A Breast is on the road on the Country Throw Down. Come check us out! Become a member to win free tickets! Pick up a Check Your Self! card and information on breast health and cancer prevention. You can also participate in the Keep A Breast “This is My Story” and “Imagine If” Campaigns and get your limited edition I Love Boobies merchandise with 100% donations going towards KAB’s education and prevention programs!

SOS Save Our Sisters exhibition travels Europe

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

If you are in Europe we invite you to Keep A Breast’s SOS “Save Our Sisters”exhibition! SOS is an international exhibition of breast casts of professional surfer  painted by leading artists or shapers in the surf industry. This international exhibition opened in San Diego in 2009 and it will be traveling across Europe until August, when it will return to Santa Monica, California, to be auctioned off. All raised funds will be used to support Keep a Breast foundation’s “Non Toxic Revolution”, an information campaign about our daily environment aimed to prevent breast cancer. In Spain, the exhibition will be part of Surfilm Festibal Donostia, and it will be based at “Noventa Grados”, a hype and chic boutique located next to the Teatro Principal, the Festibal’s Headquarters. The opening will be on Thursday, June 10 at 20h, and it will be avaliable at “Noventa Grados” until June 13

“Keep A Breast SOS “Save Our Sisters” , es una exposición internacional de moldes de escayola efectuados sobre los bustos de surfistas profesionales, que después son pintados por artistas o shapers, que a su vez también surfean.

Esta exposición internacional fue inaugurada en el 2009 en San Diego, y viajará por Europa hasta agosto, cuando volverá a Santa Mónica, California, para ser subastada.

Todos los fondos recaudados irán para apoyar el programa de la fundación Keep Breast ” Non Toxic Revolution” , una campaña de información sobre nuestro entorno cotidiano destinada a prevenir el cáncer de mama.

En España, la exposición forma parte del marco de Surfilm Festibal Donostia-San Sebastián, y se podrá contemplar en la boutique Noventa Grados, próxima al teatro donde se celebra el Surfilm Festibal.

La inauguración de la exposición está prevista para el jueves 10 de junio a las 20h y permanecerá en Noventa Grados hasta el 13 de junio.



“Keep A Breast SOS “Save Our Sisters” , est une exposition internationale de moulages en plâtre effectués sur des surfeuses professionnelles, puis peint par des artistes ou shapers, surfeurs eux aussi.

Cette exposition internationale a été inauguré en septembre 2009 à San Diego et voyage à travers l’Europe jusqu’en août, ou elle rejoindra Santa Monica, en Californie, afin d’être vendue aux enchères.

Tous les fonds récoltés soutiennent le programme de la fondation Keep Breast ” Non Toxic Revolution” , campagne d’information sur notre environnement quotidien, afin de prevenir le cancer du sein.

L’exposition est accueillie en Espagne par le San Sebastian Surfilm Festibal, et sera visible dans la boutique très hye Noventa Grados, qui jouxte le théatre où se déroule le San Sebastian Surfilm Festibal.

Une Inauguration de l’exposition est prévue Jeudi 10 juin à 20h.

L’exposition sera visible jusqu’au 13 juin.

Noventa Grados

Calle Mayor 3

E20003 Donostia – San Sebastián

Gipuzkoa

(+34) 943 42 07 60

(+34) 943 42 96 27 fax

tienda@noventa-grados.com

Tout sur Keep A Breast:

www.keep-a-breast.org

Keep A Breast Europe:

www.keep-a-breast.org/europe ”

Spencers raises over $300,000 for Keep A Breast!

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010



We are so thankful to work with Spencers and their Boobies Make Me Smile campaign. This February Spencers fundraising efforts raised over $45 thousand dollars for the Keep A Breast Foundation. Spencer’s support has helped fund our grassroots educational booth every year and has helped provide education, support and early detection for thousands and thousands of young people.

This was our forth year working with Spencers stores and we have raised $331,819 dollars!! We could not be more grateful for their unwavering and continued support of our message and outreach. A HUGE THANK YOU!!!