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Support Breast Cancer Awareness month

October 7, 2009 on 2:41 pm | In Avatars | 6 Comments

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Yahoo! has a lot going on across the network to support the effort.

For starters, you can change your Avatar to display a pink ribbon, the symbol of support for finding a cure for breast cancer. Just head over to the “Show your Support” section on the Avatars site and click on the third page of items.

We also started a campaign to get people to update their Yahoo! profile status message to show their support. When we launched it on October 1, we pledged to donate $50,000 to The National Breast Cancer Foundation once 50,000 Yahoo! users made their update. Good news! We reached that goal and as of this writing, we’re nearing the 80,000 mark.

Even though we’ve reached our goal, we hope you’ll still update your Profile status to support those affected by breast cancer.

Or click here to change your Yahoo! Messenger status to read “I support Breast Cancer Awareness Month”. Note that the link to change your status will only work if you have Yahoo! Messenger running. You could also change your Yahoo! Messenger skin to “twinkle pink”, just to show your desktop that you support the cause.

Need some retail therapy? Head over to Yahoo! Shopping and check out some items whose proceeds benefit breast cancer research.

While Yahoo! has always powered up the network to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this year is a little more significant as our own CEO, Carol Bartz, is a survivor.

Thanks for your support,

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

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  1. Breast cancer is very dangerious. I support morally and financialy

    Comment by Ojo alex idowu — October 9, 2009 #

  2. I totally agree that breast cancer is very dangerous I have know some people who had breast cancer and they died. Right now I have friend battling breast cancer it is the aggressive type! We are trying to be there 4 her and give her all the support she needs.

    Comment by maria marshall — October 14, 2009 #

  3. We do our best to beat cancer in its tracks. It is a shame that the focused has shifted in favor of Aids Research and now the bulk of the money goes there. I do not think it is right to set one problem against another.The disease is the problem and we have the power to influence where the money goes, or do we?

    Comment by Henryk — October 15, 2009 #

  4. hi,well all my friends I always wish your goodwill but
    cancer is dangerous and we should go for checkup
    cause prevention is better than cure

    Comment by mansukh — October 18, 2009 #

  5. It is something which may kill, but we by getting awareness about it can seek tips to fight and prevent it

    Comment by Jagat — October 19, 2009 #

  6. check out http://www.zazzle.com/teachdoc for breast cancer awareness shirts and one that incorporates halloween with breast cancer awareness

    Comment by teachdoc — October 26, 2009 #

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