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.
Tying teal ribbons on N. Flatbush, Fifth, and Myrtle Avenues
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.
Brooklyn Paper features T.E.A.L.® ribbon tying awareness campaign
The Brooklyn Paper featured Tell Every Amazing Lady®’s September Awareness campaign online on August 26th. The weekly newspaper sent a photographer to take photos of T.E.A.L.® staff and volunteers tying ribbons from Turn the Towns Teal® on Fifth Avenue and Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope on August 22nd. The story also mentioned T.E.A.L.® and Myrtle Avenue BID’s ribbon tying on trees along the Myrtle Avenue Plaza on August 23rd.
T.E.A.L.® thanks the Brooklyn Paper for helping raise awareness of ovarian cancer right before September’s National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
Turn the Towns Teal® and T.E.A.L.® Conduct Brooklyn Awareness Campaign
Along with the national organization Turn the Towns Teal®, Tell Every Amazing Lady® promoted awareness about ovarian cancer in Brooklyn on August 20th, 2018, and September 14th, 2018. On these dates, T.E.A.L.® held a ribbon tying campaign in Brooklyn on 5th Avenue, North Flatbush Avenue, and Myrtle Avenue. T.E.A.L.® supporters, with the help of the local Business Improvement Districts and volunteers, tied teal ribbons around trees in honor of September being ovarian cancer awareness month. Thank you to Turn the Towns Teal® and to the many volunteers who helped us turn Brooklyn teal!
September Awareness Ribbon Campaign
For September, National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, in 2015 ®T.E.A.L. partnered with local businesses and organizations to turn business and organizations in NYC and beyond tealto spread awareness about Ovarian Cancer. As part of this campaign, ®T.E.A.L. has partnered with ®Turn The Towns Teal which has provided ribbons to decorate trees in cities and towns across the United States. ®T.E.A.L. tied these ribbons around businesses and provides a poster that further explains how this business is spreading awareness to the community. Thank You To the Following Organizations, Schools, and Businesses for Participating:
- DAVIDsTEA – Park Slope, Brooklyn
- Ground Floor Gallery – Park Slope, Brooklyn
- Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID (Business Improvement District) – Park Slope, Brooklyn
- ®T.E.A.L. Office/Community Center
- Pink Olive – Park Slope, Brooklyn
- St. Joseph’s College – Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
- Astoria Bank – Park Slope, Brooklyn
- Eleven Consignment Boutique – Park Slope, Brooklyn
- Investor’s Bank (All 13 Branches in Brooklyn)