The Keep A Breast Foundation Presents the Madina Lake UK/Europe Tour March 25 – April 17 as they hit the road in an effort to educate young fans about breast cancer prevention. KAB’s highly successful traveling educational booth will be fully interactive with engaging ways to learn about breast health.

So please come visit us in the United Kingdom, France, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria & Italy!!

Click on the flyer for full size! Or check out their site on Pledge Music to get the full low down.

Amanda has a amazing story and we are so happy to have her want to throw a benefit for The Keep A Breast Foundation!! Amanda Lucas a 24 year old from Milford, MA shares her story:
” I’m a 3 time cancer survivor. I have a heart that is crying out to stop young adult and people in general to get themselves checked. Knowledge is the best weapon when it comes to cancer and prevention.  I met KAB a few years back and they really listened to me, and got teary eyed when i told them my story.
I want to be a person that people know for surviving and doing something about their second chance (4th in my case) and without people like me there will be a lot more under 30 cases being diagnosed at a late stage like myself. ”

Music For Awareness show in Milford, Massachusetts
March 4th, 2010
At The Alamo
5 – 10pm

If you can’t make it to the show, but want to donate to the cause, you can go to the link below and support Keep A Breast through First Giving fundraising site! You can create your own fundraising page or donate to the link provided below.

DONATE HERE!! Click the flyer for full size version!

Look at the smile on this beautiful woman Lyn Mills.

We just met Lyn, as she walked into the Keep A Breast traveling education tent at the ROXY PRO in Australia.
Lyn is an 8 year breast cancer survivor. She was walking by our tent at the contest and noticed what KAB was doing, not really realizing that the breast casts on display were being auctioned off, she quietly wished in her mind that she could own the beautiful cast of Mel Evans painted by Tazmen Hayes.

Upon leaving our tent, Lyn’s friend told us that Lyn only had a few days left to live, and if that is truly the case, we pray that it is not, she thanked us for making those last days brighter.

Lyn came back the next day and bought that piece via our silent auction and has this to say:

” I am breast cancer survivor for 8 years. I have advanced breast cancer with bone metasteses. I am honored to have won ” Mel’s Boobs” and to be able to display them in my home. I am totally in love with my tribe (women). Thank you Keep A Breast.
Lyn Mills 1 March 2010 . Roxy Pro Gold Coast

We are so excited to have Jessica on board as a Keep A Breast Ambassador!Jessica Chobot is awesome. She found us on Modlife and hit us up on how to get involved. What started as wearing a shirt or two on camera turned into us meeting up to San Francisco to meet her, cast her and talk about her new iPhone app coming up supporting KAB.

Jessica is one of 5 zombie girlfriends in the new game Pocket Zombie. You can donate to the girlfriends’ charities through the main menu. Check out Pocket Zombie on iTunes: www.tinyurl.com/pocketzombie

Tristan Prettyman was kind enough to take some time out of her schedule and welcome our Keep A Breast team, Erica and Kassia  Meador into her home in North County San Diego to be casted to support our efforts in breast cancer awareness.  Tristen has a kind heart and it was a pleasure meeting and working with her.  This was her second time being casting by Keep A Breast but this time her cast will play a part in a collection we are putting together now called Women of Rock & Soul. It will feature female musicians from all walks of the music industry from rock to hip hop to indie and blues.   Keep your eyes peeled for Tristan on the road in 2010!

Spencers has launched their 4th bracelet donation campaign! 100% of the proceeds of these limited edition bracelets will benefit our education and outreach programs.

These limited edition red bracelets will only be sold in stores this week just in time for valentines day!!

Head to spencersonline.com for a free upgrade to 3 day shipping to recieve them just in time to stuff them in all your valentines!!

Keep A Breast’s was recently invited to the Zumiez 100k event. The 100k is a celebration in thanks to all employees that went above and beyond and sold over 100k that year. We can’t begin to thank zumiez for inviting KAB to the 100K event this year.

We had the most amazing experience, I can’t even put into words how amazing your employee’s are.
Moment after moment kids came up to me and treated me with such love and respect, they each thanked me for being there and for the work KAB is doing, each one had an experience to share with me on how beast cancer has effected their lives, from their mothers to sisters to girlfriends to aunts, many tears were shared. They all told me how they tell each customer about KAB and the foundation when they sell our bracelets, and what a crazy phenomena the bracelets have become in our stores. It was truly a humbling experience and I’m inspired to take everything to the next level this year.

Keep a breast is more than a brand it’s a non profit organization. By selling our products this year each and every Zumiez employee became an activist for KAB. They have spread our message of early detection and prevention and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for our education and outreach programs. For more photos please check out our flickr.

I’m honored and humbled to be included in this family and know truly we can make the difference by raising awareness, raising people’s spirits and helping to save lives.
xo
Shaney jo
co founder/executive director Keep A Breast

The Keep A Breast Foundation and the Residents of Brookdale Senior Living have teamed up together for a unique fundraising event offering residents, prospects, employees and their communities the chance to educate generations on breast cancer prevention.

To celebrate the success of these fundraisers we will hold our Generation Pink Gala and Auction on Jan 26th at Town Village Leawood in Kansas City KS from 4:00 -7:00 pm on Jan 27th Village at Skyline in Colorado Springs CO at 4:30 – 7:30pm and Jan 28th Heritage Club Denver in Denver CO from 4:00 -7:00 pm where customized breast casts will be auctioned off, including generational casts of grandmothers, mothers and daughters that have been affected by breast cancer, and Brookdale associates and residents that have been touched by breast cancer. The Generation Pink online breast casting auction will be hosted by Colorado Elders.com. The online auction is on and ends at the end of each event. You may register to participate in the auction any time prior to or during the auction. For more information, please follow this link to Colorado Elders.

Speakeasy Tiger closed out 2009 with an amazing Keep A Breast Music For Awareness show in Denver, Colorado. As a fan of theirs, I was super stoked to have them approach KAB to do an event to benefit the cause and educate their community and peers. They successfully raised $720 for the organization and created one of a kind pieces of art to help raise funds. The band will also be on the Vans Warped Tour this summer, so be sure to check them out! I have included some words from Kyle, the lead singer for the band below.

I am so thankful for such inspiring young people that truly want to make a difference in the health and well being of others.
xo erica

“The show was a wonderful experience. We created a really intimate setting for everyone to really take focus on why we were throwing the event. I am proud to say we reached our goal for KAB with the help of our dear friend Rachel Yarbrough, who created custom canvas pieces with the silhouette of a woman with lyrics from one of our songs “I can feel it in my chest”. We sold each one with the hope that everyone would walk away with a much deeper awareness on the truth’s of Breast Cancer. Making KAB apart of our music was especially important to me because my mother was diagnosed with cancer when I was 10. Watching Breast Cancer affect the ones you love from a personal level shows how dangerous it can be and how easily it can be prevented if you check yourself and stay in tune with your body. Our great friend Alicia Garrison went through a step by step process on how to check yourself for our audience to see. Not only were we engaged but everyone who attended was wonderfully receptive to the information being shared. I am so hopeful when I see programs like KAB available to young artists like ourselves. With influence comes great responsibility and we are so happy to have the ability to share with others through our music. I am excited for the future and excited to promote good health for all of us! Thank you so much to a great show!” Kyle Simmons of Speakeasy Tiger

A few months back we told you that our very own Erica “baby e” Leite was chosen for the The Electra Way to Roll campaign – a movement that celebrates individuals around the globe who are taking action to make the world a better place through environmental conservation, social aid, education and artistic expression.

For this show, Dungbeetle Creative brings that blend of art & commerce together in the work of world-renowned photographer, Art Brewer of captured moments including point-and-shoot favorites from Art’s personal collection, as well as produced, commercial images from Electra Bicycle Company’s campaigns.

Opening Reception will feature hand-painted Electra Bicycles by artists Acamonchi Art, Blackass, Patrick Dennis, Brandon Lomax, and Jimmy C for auction to benefit the Keep A Breast Foundation’s education and outreach programs.