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Dear <<First Name>>,

Thank you for downloading the
"Childhood Cancer: Cross-Sector Strategies for Prevention report," and signing up to receive our monthly newsletter with the latest childhood cancer prevention news and opportunities. Your support and engagement makes it possible to move the needle on childhood cancer prevention. 

We’re midway through National Cancer Prevention Month and happy to have this opportunity to increase public awareness about ways to reduce cancer, particularly among children and other vulnerable populations, by removing harmful chemicals from the products we use and the places children live, learn and play.

Below we share some updates for National Cancer Prevention Month and ways you can get involved. Please take a moment today to support our work - by sharing National Cancer Prevention messages on social media, by making a donation to the Childhood Cancer Prevention Initiative or by letting your elected representatives know that you support prevention-oriented policies.

In Gratitude,

National Cancer Prevention Month Updates

February 4th was National Cancer Prevention Day, and along with Black History Month February is also National Cancer Prevention Month. Two Childhood Cancer Prevention Initiative (CCPI) leaders/report contributors participated in panel discussions for Less Cancer’s virtual National Cancer Prevention Day workshop. CCPI leaders included Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Executive Director of Children’s Environmental Health Network, and Polly Hoppin, Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. Click here to view Polly’s speech and here for the recording of Nsedu speaking on the Environmental panel. 

Please continue to share and uplift messages from the National Cancer Prevention Month toolkit
Pesticides, Cancer Prevention and Business Solutions

In recognition of National Cancer Prevention Month, join American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) and the Childhood Cancer Prevention Initiative (CCPI) for a special webinar on the importance of protecting our environment and communities from toxic pesticides and lifting up the solutions already within our reach. Toxic chemicals in the environment and the places where children live, learn and play are important risk factors for cancer. Toxic pesticides have a significant impact and have been clearly linked as a carcinogen. Communities of color and low-income communities are at high risk of being exposed to toxic chemicals. Moving away from toxic substances towards safer chemicals and products will drive innovation and job creation while also making workplaces and communities safer. It is time to take action to protect our vulnerable communities from exposure to toxic chemicals and pesticides, and move forward with solutions from regenerative agriculture to utilization of non-toxic plant-based products. 

The panel of experts will include:  
  • Kristin Schafer, Executive Director at Pesticide Action Network;  
  • Kari Block, CEO and Founder at Earthkind; 
  • Jeannie Economos, Farmworkers Association of Florida.  
Colton Fagundes, Policy Manager and regenerative agriculture expert at ASBC, will host for the webinar. Click here to sign up!

Take Action 

  1. Watch and share the Childhood Cancer Prevention video 
  2. Contact your representatives and let them know you support bill
    S.4406 - the Protect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act
  3. Sign the statement in support of childhood cancer prevention.
  4. Find out more about how you can support the Joint Statement on Cancer Prevention.

Get Involved

There are a growing number of ways to join our efforts and help us work towards childhood cancer prevention by reducing and even eliminating the impact of toxic chemicals. We have developed several constituency working groups, including: Congressional/Legislative, Cancer Foundations/Health Organizations, Faith Leaders/Communities, Parents/General Public, Business & Investors/Corporate Attorneys, Media Outreach/Communications, and EJ Communities/Grassroots. We aim to educate and engage these groups to build a wider community of support for accomplishing our mission. If you are interested in getting involved with one of our working groups, please get in touch.


Donate to support our work.

CCPI Participating Org News
 

Watch Cancer Free Economy Network’s recently launched documentary Unacceptable Risk: Dr. Margaret Kripke on Cancer and the Environment which tells the story of prominent cancer researcher (and a Childhood Cancer Prevention Initiative advocate), who began rethinking her assumptions about the causes of cancer and the true burden of environmentally induced cancers. This 16-minute documentary can be viewed here. Please share the link to the video with friends and colleagues, and if you are inspired to get involved, there are calls to action on the web page.


Sign up for Plastic Pollution Coalition’s webinar, February 24th: Will Humanity Survive Plastic Pollution? Toxic Impact of Plastics’ Chemicals on Fertility and watch PPC’s recent webinar featuring Dr. Philip J. Landrigan (who wrote the Childhood Cancer Prevention report foreword), Global Human Health & Ocean Plastic Pollution.


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This initiative and newsletter are made possible by significant contributions and oversight from the CCPI Leadership Team: American Sustainable Business Council, Cancer Free Economy Network, Children’s Environmental Health Network, Clean & Healthy NY, Prep4Gold, Seventh Generation and Toxic Free Future For Our Children. 

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