Let Your Girlfriends Know
Heart disease is the No.1 killer of women. Share information with your girlfriends with this handy Go Red For Women Girlfriends’ Guide. It’s full of materials and tips to help you start the conversation about heart disease – and the steps women can take to reduce their risk. Gather your friends and Go Red For Women!
It's easier than ever for women to go red in their own fashion by participating in a variety of activities
Some of these activities include:
- National Wear Red Day - Millions of Americans will be wearing red on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, to show their support for women and the fight against heart disease. To generate awareness and provide fund-raising opportunities, 10,000 companies over the past two years have participated in Wear Red Day events by allowing employees to pay $5 each to wear red and jeans to work.
- Go Red For Women Luncheons - These luncheons are premiere fund-raising events held in more than 200 cities nationwide. Themed around sisterhood and inspiration, these luncheons are life-chaging experiences that focus on three areas to support the fight against heart disease in women: 1. heightening awareness of the issue, 2. creating a passionate call to action, 3. generating funds to support education and research.
Activities at each luncheon vary, but most feature educational topics about cardiovascular disease, risk factors and heart-health, as well as local guest speakers and medical experts.
Contact your local AHA office to find more Go Red For Women events near you and get involved today!
Urge your lawmaker to help prevent heart disease
As a participant in the Go Red For Women movement, you can help stop heart disease, the leading cause of death for women in the United States. Send a message directly to your lawmakers asking them to support the HEART for Women Act, which would provide better prevention and treatment of heart disease in women. Together we can work to cure heart disease so our mothers, daughters, sisters and friends can live healthier and longer lives.
Go Red Activities
Millions of Americans help women in the fight against heart disease when they join in the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women movement. Go Red For Women is an inspiring movement that helps women discover their unique lifesaving power by learning about heart disease and taking positive action to reduce their risk and to encourage women to love their heart and go RED in their own fashion!
The following outlines various activities that were part of the Go Red For Women movement in February 2009:
- Wear the Red Dress Pin to Go Red For Women events or any time. Over 12 million people added the red dress pin to their fashion accessories collection to show their support for the Go Red For Women movement. You can get a free red dress pin by registering here.
- Companies Going Red: In 2009, more than 5,000 companies showed their support for the Go Red For Women movement by conducting fundraising events where employees pay $5 to wear something red with their jeans and show their support of the women and heart disease cause. All proceeds from these events go to the American Heart Association.
- National/Local Monuments Going Red: The Empire State Building Graceland and Niagara Falls are a few of the national sites that were illuminated in red to raise awareness around women and heart disease during the first week of February, National Go Red For Women Week.
Companies Go Red
These top 50 companies across the nation showed their support for the fight against heart disease by raising the most dollars for National Wear Red Day in February 2009.
Take Action
Find out what you can do, at home, on the job, in your community and nationally to spread the word: Cardiovascular disease is often preventable.
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