Celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness (BCA) Month demonstrates your organization’s commitment to employee well-being, health advocacy, and community support. This guide provides Culture, Social Impact, and ERG leaders with steps for impactful initiatives that align with organizational goals and workplace engagement.
Why celebrate mental health awareness?
- Raise awareness about breast cancer prevention and early detection.
- Support survivors and those currently battling breast cancer.
- Show solidarity with a cause that affects 1 in 8 women in the U.S.
Benefits to companies
- Enhance employee engagement by offering meaningful ways to contribute.
- Strengthen corporate culture through team-building initiatives.
- Boost brand reputation by demonstrating social responsibility.
How your company can celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month
The following initiatives were curated by our team of social impact experts that execute thoughtful social impact efforts for our customers every day. All of these initiatives will be more successful and engage more employees with a social impact platform that easily conducts campaigns, like Percent Pledge. Not to mention we will save you time and relieve the planning burden.
[1] Top-rated breast cancer awareness nonprofits
Supporting vetted nonprofits aligns with a company's social responsibility and boosts employee morale. But ERGs often face the challenge of vetting nonprofits, a process essential to ensuring their efforts align with the company’s values and truly impact the community.
Our team of Social Impact Managers have researched and vetted the following nonprofits to take the burden off you and your ERG leaders. Support these charities with trust and confidence.
Bright Pink
Bright Pink is on a mission to save women’s lives from breast and ovarian cancer by empowering them to live proactively at a young age.
The Lynn Sage Foundation
The Lynn Sage Foundation believes innovative research is key to improving the lives of those diagnosed with breast cancer.
Percent Pledge allows all companies and employees to donate to these nonprofits simultaneously through its Workplace Giving Platform.
[2] Breast cancer awareness workplace giving
Donating to worthy causes reflects a company’s values and resonates deeply with employees and ERGs, enhancing their sense of purpose and connection to their workplace.
Employee engagement in giving
When our customers launch their programs with giving incentives, they see a 50-89% employee engagement rate compared to 13-20% engagement launching without.
Matching donations
Amplify your employees‘ contributions by matching their donations, effectively doubling the support directed towards breast cancer awareness nonprofits.
Gift donations
Ignite participation and impact by gifting employees Cause Credits—gifted donations—to support top-rated breast cancer awareness nonprofits during October.
Corporate grants
Enhance your support by offering corporate grants to breast cancer awareness focused nonprofits, providing substantial backing for initiatives that make a lasting impact on local and national levels.
We understand your employees want to give back but you have limited time and budget. Our Giving Platform empowers employees with choice to donate globally, automates impact reporting, and hosts campaigns for your ERGs.
[3] Breast cancer awareness volunteer events
Volunteering enriches the community, boosts employee morale, and fosters team cohesion. ERGs can lead these opportunities for your employees to give back, reflecting positively on your corporate values and enhancing the impact on the community.
Participate in awareness efforts with The American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society offers lots of great opportunities for your company to raise funds and awareness, including Relay For Life, Road to Recovery, and Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.
Help cancer survivors move forward with Breast Cancer Now
Breast Cancer Now and volunteers provide support and hope for anyone affected by breast cancer–along their entire journey, through world-class research and life-changing care.
Spread support with Living Beyond Breast Cancer events
Attend a Living Beyond Breast Cancer event where you and your employees can help provide trusted information and a community of support with emotional, practical, and evidence-based content for those newly diagnosed, in treatment, post-treatment, and living with metastatic disease.
We streamline corporate volunteering with our Volunteering Platform, and organize Volunteer Events for your ERGs to give them programming that’s translatable to your broader community.
Campaigns and bonus ideas
Campaigns and bonus ideas are located in our Breast Cancer Awareness Kit, the ultimate guide to engage employees while making a positive impact for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The guide also contains additional context on the nonprofit vetting, giving, and volunteer event.
As always, our mission is to make your corporate social responsibility easy. Lean on us to save time and relieve the burden of planning and implementing successful campaigns.
