Help Fund Breast Cancer Research While Making Your Bead Jewelry

This October marks the 25th anniversary of The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) organization which has spent this last quarter century trying to educate and empower people about breast cancer and make them more aware of the disease and what can be done about it. It’s around this time that you start seeing lots of pink products in the stores and pink ribbons on buildings and packaging, all indicating that a small portion of the proceeds from those sales will go towards breast cancer research and education.

Around this time each year I usually give a small donation of my own, either to my local hospital or to one of the larger breast cancer organizations out there, but this year I’m going to do something different: I’m going to give a portion of all my jewelry sales for the month of October to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. But since I don’t sell much jewelry online, I thought I would also try to involve my friends and readers across the internet as well!

You, the Bead Jewelry Blog Visitor and Reader, get to decide how much money I will donate to fighting breast cancer! There are two ways you can do this:

100% of the Jewelry Making and Beading Commissions I receive from Amazon.com will go towards breast cancer research during October 2009!

For the entire 2009 Breast Cancer Awareness month I will donate 100% of the commission I make from selling jewelry making supplies, items and jewelry books I sell through Amazon.com. Amazon doesn’t pay much, usually only about 6% or so on most sales, so if someone buys $10.00 worth of beading supplies through a link I might make 60 cents if I’m lucky. But every bit ads up and I’m willing to donate all my jewelry making and beading supply commission to breast cancer research. I’ve written about the good prices and wide selection of jewelry making supplies and beads Amazon.com has before, and their ordering process couldn’t be easier. To make sure I count your and beading and jewelry item purchases, please visit this direct link to Amazon’s Beading and Jewelry Making Store.

I’ll donate $10.00 to breast cancer research for every sale of Bead Manager Pro in October 2009!

In addition, I’m going to donate $10 for every sale of one of my essential jewelry business tools: Bead Manager Pro to fighting breast cancer. I’ve written about several different bead jewelry software programs before, but Bead Manager Pro is what I use because it’s relatively affordable, it’s easy to use and it does everything I want it to do. If you’ve been thinking about buying beading and jewelry inventory software and want the chance to have some of that money go towards fighting breast cancer, then October is the month to take the plunge!

I write this blog as a means to share my thoughts with the world and I don’t really make much money with this jewelry blog, but I do like to point out products and books that can help others make and sell their own jewelry. Unfortunately, I only make a tiny portion on each sale, but that’s okay because I just use the money to pay for website hosting and the software and services I sometimes need to purchase to keep this site running.

I was just going to turn my site pink for the month, but I thought this would be a more serious way of making a small difference. I’ll post a grand total for October’s donations at the end of the month. Of course, if you want, you can always makes your straight out donations to any number of different local or international breast cancer awareness and empowerment organizations, and I strongly encourage you to do so!

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