About Us
Pink Ribbons Project mission statement:
Using the arts, Pink Ribbons Project promotes breast health, saves lives and improves the quality of life for those touched by breast cancer.
photo by Leticia London
Pink Ribbons Project was named Outstanding Community Service Organization in 2010
by the Associaion of Fundraising Professionals - Greater Houston Chapter.
We believe that:
Awareness and early detection of breast cancer will save lives.
Screening and diagnostic testing for breast cancer should be made available to everyone.
All persons touched by breast cancer should have access to medical treatment.
Through the arts, we educated and inform in ways that move people to take action against breast cancer.
The arts inspire, life up and heal those who are touched by breast cancer.
Advocacy at the local, state, and national levels is integral to promoting breast health and improving the quality of life for those touched by breast cancer.
Key messages:
Pink Ribbons Project successfully uses the arts to help those touched by breast cancer.
Pink Ribbons Project educates and raises awareness about breast cancer.
Pink Ribbons Project helps underserved women receive breast cancer screening and follow-up care through services at clinics and mobile mammography units throughout the Greater Houston area.
Pink Ribbons Project supports its programs primarily through fundraising events.
Pink Ribbons Project. We’re the people who bring you Tour de Pink.
photo by Fred Rogers
Impact Statements:
* Thousands of women who wouldn’t otherwise receive mammograms get them because Pink Ribbons Project supports Houston area clinics and mobile mammography units.
* Our funding puts mobile mammography units in motion, taking exam and screening opportunities to women out in the communities where they live and work.
* Every Saturday, women who can’t leave work during the week, or don’t have weekday transportation, are getting the mammograms and follow-up care they need because Pink Ribbons Project funds a Saturday clinic.
* Pink Ribbons Project collects and delivers donated magazines to waiting rooms at local hospitals to help patients and their families ease the fear, stress and boredom of long waiting room stays.
* Because breast cancer respects no boundaries, Pink Ribbons Project engages thousands of people of all ages and socio-economic groups across the Houston community through our education, awareness and outreach programs.
* Our cause motivated students at two local high schools to create annual events (a fashion show and a rugby game) that have raised thousands of dollars for Pink Ribbons Project and raised cancer awareness among high school students.
* Every summer, grade-school students volunteer to set up pink-lemonade stands that raise awareness and funds for Pink Ribbons Project, while educating the next generation about breast cancer.
* Did you know that the arts are a powerful weapon in the fight against breast cancer? That’s why we partner with local artists and arts organizations.
* Pink Ribbons Project uses the arts in everything we do because they reach people at the level of personal vulnerability and move them to action in a way that other approaches may not.
* Because Pink Ribbons Project is always open to new ways to communicate, we co-produced and helped fund a breast cancer musical that reached thousands in the Houston community.
photo by Susan Rafte
To download the most current Pink Ribbons Project "Fact Sheet", click here. (Adobe PDF Downloadable file)
Pink Ribbons Project Letter of Determination or 501 (c) 3 (Adobe PDF Downloadable file)
