The Phoenix Boys Choir has been a client of Everyone Loves Buttons for the past several years and we are actually working on their 2014 buttons and zipper pulls right now! The boys get a custom button which corresponds with how much they raised as part of the organization’s fundraising efforts, and are acknowledged during a special ceremony. Founded in 1947, the Phoenix Boys Choir has programs featuring training in voice, music theory, and performance for boys age 7 to 14. Currently, there are approximately 150 young boys and men participating. These are an amazing group of boys with heavenly voices. Everyone Loves Buttons CEO, Maura Statman, had the pleasure of meeting one of boys who was in a past ballet class with her daughter. The families are engaged in extensive fundraising throughout the year and the higher level choirs travel throughout Europe during the summer.  The Phoenix Boys Choir has even won a Grammy! The Choir won a 2000 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for its recording of Penderecki’s Credo with the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Helmuth Rilling. The group is so in-demand they have their own booking agent and can be hired for performances. Please consider and help keep this amazing group going!

The Oral Cancer Foundation is a national public service, non-profit entity designed to reduce suffering and save lives through prevention, education, research, advocacy, and patient support activities. Approximately 42,000 people in the US will be newly diagnosed with oral cancer in 2013. While some think this is a rare cancer, mouth cancer will be diagnosed in about 100 new individuals each day in the US alone, and a person dies from oral cancer every hour of every day.

When found at early stages of development, oral cancers have an 80 to 90 % survival rate. Unfortunately, the majority of cases are found as late stage cancers. Late stage diagnosis is not occurring because most of these cancers are hard to diagnoses; it is because of a lack of public awareness coupled with the lack of a national program for opportunistic screenings.

The foundation supports numerous oral cancer related events each year, from free screening events and educational seminars, to walk/run public awareness events around the country.  Everyone Loves Buttons has created custom buttons for the Oral Cancer Foundation for the last 5 years, customizing unique buttons for their fundraising walks that are occurring around the country. See if the Oral Cancer Foundation is putting on walk/run in your community here.

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V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues, A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, Any One Of Us: Words From Prison, screenings of V-Day’s documentary Until The Violence Stops, and the PBS documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You, Spotlight Teach-Ins and V-Men workshops, to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities.

In 2012, over 5,800 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. Read More

Pizzeria Bianco has 1067 reviews on YELP with a 4 star rating overall, 384 Reviews on TripAdvisor (also a 4 star rating) and was given the Certificate of Excellence 2013, as well as a 26/30 food score on Zagat. The restaurant even has its own Wikipedia page! Pizzeria Bianco has been rated as the best pizza in the US by Bon Appétit, Vogue, and Rachel Ray, and has also been recognized by Martha Stewart, Oprah, GQ, and Gourmet. Chef Chris Bianco won James Beard Foundation Best Chef: Southwest for 2003 and is the only pizza chef to have won this prestigious regional award. Everyone Loves Buttons creates 1″ buttons for Pizzeria Bianco that the staff hands out as mementos to happy patrons. Just the other day Jimmy Fallon stopped by and we hope he received his Pizzeria Bianco button to remember what we’re sure is the best pizza he’s ever had (yes, even when compared to the pizza Mecca that is NYC!) Custom buttons for retail business like restaurants, clothing stores, salons, and more are a great way to promote your company. Known as walking billboards, buttons travel near and far, going wherever your patrons go! In the case of Pizzeria Bianco, there buttons are almost like badges of honor for patrons that routinely wait 2-3 hours just to get a table! Follow Pizzeria Bianco on Facebook or Twitter. And the next time you are in Phoenix be sure to leave plenty of time one night for dinner!