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Associated Press - Monday, December 6, 2004
RED:
* The Diabetes Research Institute is raising funds with its "Insulin Is Not a Cure" bracelets. www.DRInet.org
* This month, the nonprofit Keep a Child Alive will begin selling bracelets to raise funds for children With HIV/AIDS: www.keepachildalive.org
BLUE:
* Sydney Davis and her friend Daniel Rosen, friends from New Jersey who both have juvenile diabetes, are selling bracelets in honor of their 13th birthdays. The bracelets, available at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbus-Presbyterian hospital in New York, carry the words "Cure Diabetes Today." http://nbdiabetes.org
PINK:
* Target stores and Amazon.com are selling the Target Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Bracelet that say, "Share Beauty Spread Hope." Funds go to breast cancer research.
* In Utah, people have been wearing "Find Brooke" bracelets for Brooke Wilberger, a student at Brigham Young University who disappeared in Oregon in May. Proceeds are going to a search-and-rescue fund. www.findbrooke.com
ORANGE:
* The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has the "MAX-LIFE" fundraising bracelets, named for Max Rowe, a 9-year-old in St. Louis who has the disease. http://max-life.org
* The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation are selling bracelets to raise funds and awareness of their annual AIDS bike ride. www.aidslifecycle.org
GREEN:
* 7-Eleven stores will soon have bracelets to raise money for the USO, which provides support to members of the military. ALUMINUM:
* HeroBracelets.org is selling bracelets, each with the name of a soldier killed in Iraq. Proceeds go to the Fallen Heroes Fund.
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