awareness month
Cause's calendar spotlight
An awareness month is a designated period—usually a calendar month—meant to draw public attention to a particular cause, disease, or social issue: Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Black History Month, Pride Month.
Organizations use these campaigns for education, fundraising, and advocacy.
The proliferation of awareness months means nearly every month now hosts multiple overlapping observances, diluting the concept's impact.
October is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- ribbonSlender ornamental strip
- OctoberYear's tenth month
- pinkPale red hue
- breast cancerMalignant growth in mammary glands
cancer · breast · charity · advocacy · cause · fundraiser · walk · run · pledge · support · calendar · health · mental health · prevention · early detection · screening · education · purple
- awareness campaignscampaigns, advocacy, outreach, education, PSA
- AIDS activismACT UP, red ribbon, AIDS quilt, World AIDS Day, HIV testing
- Health Awarenesshealth campaign, pink ribbon, red ribbon, wristband, charity walk
- protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, protest march, sit-in
- suicide preventionsuicide, prevention, crisis, hotlines, helplines
awareness monthmedia blackout
Suppression of press coverage
cover-up · censorship · willful ignorance · swept under the rug · hushed up
awareness monthignorance
Absence of knowledge
unawareness · obliviousness · denial · indifference · apathy
awareness, month, aware, unaware, unawareness, monthly, months, bimonthly