Tell Every Amazing Lady® participated in the virtual BBB Joint Regional Accredited Business Networking Event on September 30th, 2020, getting the chance to spread awareness to and meet other businesses from across New York City, Long Island, and the Mid-Hudson Region.
T.E.A.L.® celebrated the end of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month by lighting up Manhattan’s City Hall the color teal on September 30th, 2020! This was the fifth year in a row City Hall partnered with T.E.A.L.® to light the building, allowing us to spread important awareness even during a pandemic.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® endorsed a new bill from Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez seeking to increase awareness of ovarian cancer among health professionals and women.
The bill H.R. 8442, entitled the Ovarian and Cervical Cancer Awareness Act of 2020, was introduced on September 29th, during National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. It intends to address two of the deadliest reproductive cancers women face and prioritize underserved women in our national gynecological health public awareness campaign.
Note: The bill hasn’t yet passed, it was introduced to Congress
T.E.A.L.® hosted the 7th Annual Savannah T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run virtually on September 26, 2020. The event was very different but still a success, generating lots of awareness for ovarian cancer. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, T.E.A.L.®’s usual in-person event at Lake Mayer Track moved to a virtual platform for the safety of participants. For the first time, the annual event featured a 5K run option for participants. There was also an exclusive kick off video for participants to feel connected together that included T.E.A.L.® volunteers, staff, board members, team members, and celebrities.
A big thanks to Punk Rope, a jump rope-based fitness class, which donated $400 from its Punk Rope Games on September 26th, 2020, to Tell Every Amazing Lady®.
Punk Rope founder Tim ran in the virtual 12th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run on September 12th, 2020, with Team MaryMo and decided to keep up the fundraising.
Participants in the annual event dressed in costume to compete in a variety of jump rope events in Manhattan. Each year, the gym donates 100% of the proceeds from the competition to a charity.
Images courtesy Thomas Egan Photography.
Kendra Scott held another online fundraiser for Tell Every Amazing Lady® on September 22nd and 23rd, 2020 in honor of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Online shoppers could use a code at checkout on the site, and the NYC Soho store would donate 20% of all proceeds to T.E.A.L.®. This was a two-day online shopping event. Earlier in the year, Kendra Scott also donated beautiful teal colored jewelry to our Amazing Lady Membership Program for ovarian cancer survivors in the program.
T.E.A.L.® was invited to spread awareness about ovarian cancer to the staff at Liberty Mutual on September 23rd, 2020. The presentation to Liberty Mutual’s WE@Liberty, the Women’s Employee Resource Group, was part of the company’s self-care webinar series.
T.E.A.L.® held the 7th Annual Litchfield T.E.A.L.® Walk virtually on September 19, 2020. Survivors, their family members and friends, and many other members of the public were able to participate in the virtual walk to raise awareness for ovarian cancer. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, T.E.A.L.®’s usual in-person event at Litchfield Community Field moved to a virtual platform for the safety of participants. T.E.A.L.® volunteers, staff, board members, team captains, and celebrities filmed a kick-off video to give participants a chance to feel connected together that day.
Thanks to T.E.A.L.® volunteer Kelsey, who hosted an online raffle fundraiser for the foundation. Kelsey, a member of Kappa Psi-Delta Omega Fraternity and National Community Oncology Dispensing Association, a professional pharmacy fraternity at South University in Savannah, Georgia, raised $305 through the online event in September, 2020, donating 100% of the profit to T.E.A.L.®.
T.E.A.L.® thanks our media sponsor WABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News for covering the virtual 12th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run on September 12th, 2020. Check out the video of the event here.
T.E.A.L.® held the 12th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run virtually on September 12th, 2020. Survivors, their family members and friends, and many others were able to participate in the virtual walk or run to raise awareness for ovarian cancer from anywhere in the country. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, T.E.A.L.®’s usual in-person event in Prospect Park moved to a virtual platform for the safety of participants. T.E.A.L.® volunteers, staff, board members, and celebrities filmed a video to give participants a chance to feel connected and virtually kick off the event together online.
T.E.A.L.® thanks Savannah’s WTOC for promoting our virtual 7th Annual Savannah T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run by airing an interview with volunteer Vanessa Courtlandt on September 11th, 2020. Vanessa shared her story and helped to bring awareness to ovarian cancer ahead of the event on September 26th. The interview can be found here: https://www.wtoc.com/2020/09/11/teal-walkrun-goes-virtual/
T.E.A.L.® wants to give a big thank you to our friends at One Tough B for featuring us in their September 10th, 2020, podcast episode. This episode features our co-founder Pamela, and discusses the journey to founding and starting T.E.A.L.®. Listen to the episode here.
T.E.A.L.® lit up Brooklyn Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn the color teal from September 7th through 13th, 2020, to continue its kickoff of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. It was the foundation’s seventh year working with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who has supported T.E.A.L.® in every year of his administration.
T.E.A.L.® thanks the Brooklyn Paper for helping raise awareness about ovarian cancer and National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month by featuring coverage of T.E.A.L.®’s September Awareness Campaign on its website and in print on September 4th, 2020. The paper featured T.E.A.L.® staff and volunteers as they tied ribbons along North Flatbush, Fifth, and Myrtle Avenues in Brooklyn. The story also mentioned the lighting of Brooklyn Borough Hall from September 7th to 13th to further promote the foundation’s work. Read the story here.
T.E.A.L.® wants to thank NY1 for helping raise awareness of ovarian cancer and National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month by airing a feature on September 3rd, 2020 about the foundation’s annual ribbon tying awareness event in Brooklyn on North Flatbush Avenue, Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue, and Myrtle Avenue. If you’d like to see the NY1 video, you can find it here.
Tell Every Amazing Lady® continued its September Ovarian Cancer Awareness Campaign on September 2nd, 2020, by tying ribbons across Brooklyn. Foundation staff and volunteers were joined by members of the North Flatbush BID, Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID, and Myrtle Avenue BID to tie teal-colored ribbons from national organization Turn the Towns Teal® along their respective avenues to raise awareness about the disease and remind community members of the virtual 12th Annual Brooklyn T.E.A.L.® Walk/Run.