Awareness Programs

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Creativity and leadership abounds in North Carolina. Read on to find out what programs have been implemented or home grown within our state. Please consider participating in any of the following programs by via the contact information on their webpage links. Are we missing your prostate cancer awareness program? Please let us know what you are doing!

Take Care of your Body Like you Take Care of your Vehicle!
North Carolina Racing & Automotive Programs to Raise Prostate Cancer Awareness.

Devil's Ridge Charity Golf Classic
Moving into its fourth year, the Devil's Ridge Golf Association has worked diligently to propel the PCCNC vision forward with much needed seed capitol raised during the tournament. Their hard work, dedication, and executive skill has resulted in one of our nation’s most successful prostate cancer awareness charity golf classics.

Prostate Cancer Calendar Guys
A group of friends in Alamance came up with the idea to do a "Full Monty"-style calendar to promote prostate cancer awareness and research during an afternoon cookout... REALLY!

The North Carolina Institute for Minority Economic Development's "On the Ground" Prostate Cancer Project

Faith Based Outreach
The church has long been a cornerstone of Southern communities. Project EMPOWER provides a model framework of how to apply the power of faith and religious fellowship to battle prostate cancer on multiple fronts.

Barbershop Outreach
ProstateNet: Going to the Barbershop to Fight Prostate Cancer

Workplace-based Awareness
Sneakers at Work Fundraising event for UsToo International, a leader in prostate cancer education and support.

Minority & Underserved Populations
The UsToo International Minority and Underserved Populations Outreach & Awareness Program is designed to spread awareness about prostate cancer to African-American men, men who are in medically underserved regions of the USA including rural and uninsured Americans, Hispanic and other Spanish-speaking men, men in states with the greatest prostate cancer incidence rates per 100,000 populations, and Native Americans & Alaskan Natives.

Breast and prostate cancer are brother and sister diseases.
Some of the same choices that reduce risk for prostate cancer can help reduce risk for breast cancer, colon cancer, and heart disease!

Closest-to-the-Pin contest for Golf Courses
Arnie's Army awareness event and fundraiser for the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF). A foundation dedicated solely to prostate cancer research.

LGBT Outreach
Among gay men and for most LGBT cancer patients, the subject of prostate cancer is complicated by the intersecting stigmata of both cancer and homosexuality. Most people do not want to talk about prostate cancer and most straight people do not want to talk about homosexuality... visit MaleCare for more information and resources for gay men and their partners.

National Prostate Cancer Coalition (NPCC) Prostate Cancer Legislative Awareness

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5905 Shamrock Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27713
919.321.0365
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