Raise Awareness

Raise awareness and funds for the brain tumor community this holiday season by sharing stats and key messages provided below alongside your personal story.

Share Your Story

In sharing your story, you can raise awareness for the brain tumor community, inspire action, and show others they are not alone. Your story may be reshared on our website or social media channels, so be sure to look for it and share it with your friends. If you’d like to share a short video (90 seconds or shorter), email us at marcommteam@braintumor.org.

Spread the word on social media

Sharing your support of NBTS can inspire others to take action this holiday season.

• Follow NBTS on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
• Post some of the social media messages below on your personal channels to encourage others to join us in driving breakthroughs ahead. We’ve also provided recommended graphics, hashtags, and links to videos you can share.
• Reshare a post from NBTS with your network on social media.

Breakthroughs can’t wait. Join us today by making a gift in support of the National Brain Tumor Society’s 2023 campaign to raise $1M by the end of this year, and by using the materials included in this toolkit to spread the word.

Follow the National Brain Tumor Society:

In addition to following us, you can also interact with our posts by liking, commenting on, or sharing them with your own networks.

Recommended Hashtags:

• At any time: #BreakthroughsAhead #BrainTumor #BrainTumorCommunity #NBTSGive #NBTS #NationalBrainTumorSociety #WhyIGive
  
• Leading up to or on November 28: #GivingTuesday 
  
• Nov and Dec: #DoubleYourImpact
  
• Sharing your own memories of participating in a past NBTS event or promoting your own fundraising event for NBTS? Use #NBTSConnect

Key Messages: Sample Social Media Posts

• Breakthroughs can’t wait. With my gift to the National Brain Tumor Society, I’m making real change for the brain tumor community. Join me to #DefeatBrainTumors as we work towards #BreakthroughsAhead: https://braintumor.org/breakthroughsahead

• Everyone can help advance #BreakthroughsAhead! Join thousands of others in supporting the National Brain Tumor Society’s unrelenting drive to #DefeatBrainTumors. Learn more at https://braintumor.org/breakthroughsahead

• #BreakthroughsAhead mobilize the brain tumor community to connect and move forward together. Let’s #DefeatBrainTumors — once and for all: https://braintumor.org/breakthroughsahead

• When you make a gift to NBTS throughout November, you can double your impact! All gifts (up to $50,000) will be matched thanks to generous donors Stephen and Ellen Conley and Jim and Peggy Conley, in honor of Stephen’s 20th year of survival after brain tumor surgery. Give today to help drive #breakthroughsahead for the brain tumor community:  https://braintumor.org/breakthroughsahead

Shareable Graphics

Share quick, impactful stats showing why breakthroughs for the brain tumor community are urgently needed, as well as how NBTS is driving advocacy, research, fundraising, and community engagement in our shared mission to conquer and cure brain tumors – once and for all.

Shop Our Store

This holiday season, raise awareness for the brain tumor community with National Brain Tumor Society merchandise. Place your order today to support our mission to conquer and cure brain tumors — once and for all — and show patients and caregivers that they are not alone.