This calendar provides nonprofits worldwide the chance to plan and raise awareness about something they care about, hence allowing them to participate in community development. Aligning your company with a cause is a pivotal move to increasing an organization’s public image, which makes the public trust your company more and create an overall positive impact. Organizations typically use this as a strategic move to maximize their public relation and market themselves better.
Additionally, having a Cause awareness calendar enables content creators to develop good content for their targeted audience in advance. This ensures that the final content created is of high quality and can satisfy the targeted audience, such as the fundraisers and sponsors, and help the organization that creates this content to achieve its objective in form of reaching as many people as possible and raising enough money to do so. As such, the Cause Awareness Calendar is a useful tool for planning content and promoting companies worldwide. This is particularly vital in the era of digital technology, which has seen a shift in marketing to involve the internet due to the social media platform’s growth within the past few decades.
JANUARY
1–31 January: National Mentoring Month
4 January: World Braille Day
11 January: Paget’s Awareness Day (a disease of the bones)
14 January: STIQ Day
18–24 January: Cervical Cancer Prevention Week
FEBRUARY
1–7 February: Children’s Mental Health Week
1–7 February: Tinnitus Awareness Week
1–7 February: Sexual Abuse & Sexual Violence Awareness Week
4 February: World Cancer Day
4 February: Time to Talk Day
8 February: International Epilepsy Day
22 February: World Encephalitis Day
28 February: Rare Disease Day
MARCH
1–31 March: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
1–31 March: Endometriosis Month
1–31 March: Brain Tumour Awareness Month
2–7 March: Eating Disorders Awareness Week
3 March: World Hearing Day
8 March: International Women’s Day
11 March: World Kidney Day
16 March: Young Carers Day
21 March: World Down Syndrome Day
APRIL
1–30 April: Stress Awareness Month
2 April: World Autism Awareness Day
4 April: HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy) Remembrance Day
7 April: World Health Day
19–25 April: MS Awareness Week
MAY
9–15 May: Coeliac Awareness Week
15 May: International HG (Hyperemesis Gravidarum) Awareness Day
17 May: National Children’s Day
18–23 May: Mental Health Awareness Week
20 May: World Bee Day
28 May: Menstrual Hygiene Day
JUNE
1–6 June: Volunteers’ Week
1–7 June: Garden Wildlife Week
5 June: World Environment Day
5–6 June: The Big Lunch
8 June: World Oceans Day
TBC: Small Charity Week
21 June: Global Motor Neurone Disease Awareness Day
21–27 June: Learning Disability Week
JULY
1–31 July: Plastic Free July
28 July: World Nature Conservation Day
AUGUST
8 August: International Cat Day
12 August: International Youth Day
15 August: Cavernoma Awareness Day
SEPTEMBER
1–30 September: Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
5 September: International Day of the Charity
7 September: Youth Mental Health Day
10 September: World Suicide Prevention Day
13 September: World Sepsis Day
OCTOBER
1–28 October: Stoptober
4 October: World Animal Day
4 October: Kinship Care Week
9 October: World Hospice & Palliative Care Day
10 October: World Homeless Day
10 October: World Mental Health Day
11–17 October: National Adoption Week
NOVEMBER
1–29 November: Mouth Cancer Action Month
1–30 November: Movember
14 November: World Diabetes Day
DECEMBER
2 December: The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
5 December: International Volunteer Day
2–7 December: National Grief Awareness Week
10 December: International Animal Rights Day
10 December: Human Rights Day
