Collaborative Ribbon Building in Kansas
Building Partnerships and the Lung Cancer Community In the Kansas City Metro!
In January, 2023, The White Ribbon Project in collaboration with Lung Cancer Research Foundation and the University of Kansas Cancer Center had a vision for a community outreach event to raise lung cancer awareness and facilitate impactful introductions for all who have been affected by this disease.
On May 20,2023, local residents from LUNGevity Foundation, American Lung Association, Go2 For Lung Cancer & Kansas Department of Health & Environment rolled up their sleeves to paint 100 ribbons to be distributed throughout Kansas and Missouri. There was an opportunity to also write a message of hope to the future recipients of these ribbons.
Over 60 people came together at Heritage Park in Olathe, KS to enjoy this event, while building new relationships. A special thank you to LCRF volunteer Chuck Loch and his friends for cutting and sanding 96 ribbons in advance of this event!
The Community Build was possible due to the generous funding of Genentech, a member of the Roche Group. The Genentech Team showed up in force along with a large life like inflatable lung which all the children thoroughly enjoyed.
While most associate Kansas City with iconic BBQ, our friends at Minsky’s Pizza and Whole Foods provided delicious refreshments of pizza and Chantilly Cake!
The White Ribbon Project would like to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in making this lung cancer awareness event a tremendous success and blue print for community partnerships across the United States.
The White Ribbon Project ribbons are now available for distribution at Gilda’s Club in KC MO (https://www.gildasclubkc.org ) and Turning Point in Leawood Kansas (https://www.kansashealthsystem.com/health-resources/turning-point ). Ribbons can also be distributed by appointment at many of the University of Kansas Cancer Centers throughout the KC Metro.
The National Lung Cancer Roundtable Annual Meeting
Each year, the NLCRT membership, a nationwide coalition of more than 160 professional and national societies, cancer centers, government agencies, research groups, advocacy and policy organizations, and corporate associates convenes to work together on our shared goal to create lung cancer survivors. To learn more, click here.
National Lung Cancer Screening Day
November 12, 2022 is National Lung Cancer Screening Day. For more information click here.
Don’t miss this story about how important lung cancer screening is from Spectrum News 1 in Kentucky.
• November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Do you know the origin story of the White Ribbon Project? Do you know this grassroots movement originated as a result of Heidi's frustration that her cancer center did not have any plans to recognize Lung Cancer Awareness Month, learn more https://www.thewhiteribbonproject.org/origin-story.
Our mission at The White Ribbon Project is to take accountability/action for educating the public about lung cancer. We encourage YOU to simply ASK your cancer center & medical teams "What are you doing to recognize lung cancer awareness month?" Use your white ribbon to start a conversation! Our white ribbon community is changing lung cancer awareness through our community ribbon builds. There is great impact when we work within our own community alongside our cancer center/medical teams, and our resources to raise awareness and educate. Want to learn how https://www.thewhiteribbonproject.org/how-you-can-participate
Heidi & Pierre at Cancer Spectacle at Colorado State Fair
Heidi and Pierre will be at the Cancer Spectacle at the Colorado State Fair that will be presented by the Colorado Cancer Coalition and Partners. The location is just inside Gate 9.
Now is the time to take care of you and your health!
Join the Colorado Cancer Coalition and Partners at the Colorado State Fair for the first Cancer Spectacle!
Walk through the inflatable colon and learn about colorectal cancer screening options.
Journey through the inflatable lung and the virtual reality experience.
Visit the Sun Bus and have your skin checked out.
Learn about breast cancer, get a breast exam and learn how to get scheduled for a mammogram.
Learn about prostate cancer and do a screening on site.And much much more…..
Ribbons to ALK Summit in Denver
This weekend, July 30 & 31, Denver, Colorado will be hosting near 200 people living with ALK Positive lung cancer the 2022 ALK Summit. Our Co-Founders, Heidi & Pierre Onda, have been busy building requested ribbons, handmade and will be given with love. Heidi & Pierre will be personally delivering the white ribbons. It is their hope to have white ribbons starting conversations about lung cancer in airports all across the country and inspire others to build ribbons with their communities & cancer centers. We want everyone to feel the power of organizing their community, feel the love & support, to build, sign, & gift white ribbons
Kentucky Legislation Signing
HB 219 CEREMONIAL SIGNING
Do you live in or near Kentucky or will be there on July 15, 2022? If so, make it a point to be at The Capital Rotunda! Bring your friends and family, advocates, survivors, caregivers, and anyone you know touched by lung cancer to the beautiful state capital rotunda!! It is an incredible opportunity to be seen and heard all over the country with this ground-breaking legislation!“Kentucky is the first state in the union to pass this level of transformative legislation, advanced by our own Representative Kimberly Moser. Ky is setting the bar for lung cancer screening, soon to be #1 in the nation! This platform of uncontested team-based success is attracting attention to this relentless killer. We are going after it and showing the world how it can be done. We truly are raising hope for lung cancer survivors, increasing research dollars, and defeating the stigma and nihilism so entrenched in the lung cancer arena. We will be presenting Governor Beshear with a White Ribbon, with love, to share our profound appreciation for his leadership in this space and as a tribute to the challenging work and dedication of our Kentucky Congress and all that helped to make this happen!”
~ Dr. Michael Gieske, Director of Lung Cancer Screening St. Elizabeth Healthcare
BRING YOUR RIBBONS!!! If you do not have one, you can get one at the event!
IMPORTANT NOTE: Participants are asked to RSVP for this event. Don’t miss this important opportunity. Please click here to RSVP.