Recognize National Infertility Awareness Week in Your Community
Here are some ways to recognize National Infertility Awareness Week® in your neighborhood.
Event ideas to increase public understanding of the disease of infertility:
- Work with your local fertility clinic: Work with your local fertility clinic: Ask your local fertility clinic if you could bring in donuts and juice one morning to support the women waiting for their early morning appointments. Bring some RESOLVE materials and talk about what RESOLVE means to you. Email publications@resolve.org to request brochures.
- Contact the media: Send a press release to local media asking them to help spread the word
- Volunteer to help a local RESOLVE HelpLine: Calls to the RESOLVE HelpLines increase during NIAW. For volunteer opportunities in your area, visit the volunteer webpage here.
- Have an Infertility-Movie Night: There are some funny "infertility related" movies out there like "Raising Arizona" and "Baby Mama". Use this opportunity to talk about the common myths and facts about infertility and family building in popular culture today.
- Visit local ob/gyn offices: Pledge to visit as many local ob/gyn offices as you can during National Infertility Awareness Week. Bring RESOLVE/Infertility materials and ask the office manager if you can leave them in the waiting room.
Event ideas to raise money to support RESOLVE's mission to improve the lives of women and men living with infertility:
- Host a Happy Hour: Invite friends, family, supporters, coworkers, etc. to a Happy Hour at your favorite local watering hole. To raise awareness download Infertility 101 facts from RESOLVE’s web site and put a new twist on this happy hour...NO "baby talk" allowed!
- Host a Dinner Party: Invite those who have you helped during your infertility during journey over for dinner and to say thank you and ask them to support your iTeam fundraising efforts.
- Birthday/House-Warming/Wedding/Retirement Gifts: In lieu of a gift for a special occasion, ask your friends and family to make a donation.
- Benefit night at a local restaurant: Check in with your favorite local hangouts. Many restaurants already have programs in place to help you fundraise at their establishment. Be a guest bartender? A guest griller? Or hand out coupons to their establishment for a percentage of profits for that evening.
- Get Fit: Ask your yoga instructor or personal trainer for a donated class. Invite your friends to attend a special yoga/aerobics/step class donated by a trainer. Their admission fee of $20 payable to the Walk of Hope becomes a donation, and the trainer gets the chance to build their client base. It’s a win-win for all.
Tell RESOLVE what you’re doing to celebrate National Infertility Awareness Week® in your community and we’ll add it to the list!
