October is officially known as Breast Cancer Awareness month, so you’re going to be seeing a lot of pink products out there over the next few weeks. Things like pink blenders, pink shoes and even pink toiletries will all be sold and marketed to people who want to have a portion of the profits from their purchase go towards fighting breast cancer!

I was going to turn this site all pink, but I decided to try to help people in a different way: I will give away a portion of all my jewelry supply sales for the month of October to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Here are the details:

100% of the Jewelry Making and Beading Commissions I receive from Amazon.com will go towards breast cancer research during October 2009!

Amazon’s Beading and Jewelry Making Store - 100% of all my commissions for jewelry supply and beading items sold through the above Amazon link will be donated to a national breast cancer awareness organization! Yep, that’s for all of October 2009! Just use the link above to see the thousands of beading and jewelry making items at Amazon and to get credit for your purchases. Amazon.com’s selection is great, their pricing often beats the local craft store and you can sometimes get free shipping on jewelry making items.

I’ll donate $10.00 to breast cancer research for every sale of Bead Manager Pro in October 2009!

In addition, I’m going to donate $10 of every sale of one of my favorite bead jewelry business tools: Bead Manager Pro to fighting breast cancer. I’ve written about several different bead jewelry software programs before, but Bead Manager Pro is what I use because it’s relatively affordable, it’s easy to use and it does everything I want it to do. If you’ve been thinking about buying beading and jewelry inventory software and want the chance to have some of that money go towards fighting breast cancer, then October is the month to go for it!

Sure, Amazon’s affiliate program doesn’t pay much, so a $10.00 pair of bead crimping pliers may only pay about 60 cents in commission, but every little bit helps - especially when that 60 cents could help fund educational campaigns about breast cancer or even fund research to find a cure!

I’ll post a grand total for October’s donations at the end of the month. You can also always makes your straight out donations to any number of different local or international breast cancer awareness and empowerment organizations, and I strongly hope you do!