The question we're asking this Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
What will it take to cure colorectal cancer?
It takes all of us, refusing to wait.
Whether you travel to D.C. with us or join from home, anyone can take action. Here's everything happening this March, and how to be part of it.
Washington, D.C. · February 28 – March 2
Three Days, Three Events
New this year: our advocates and the world's colorectal cancer researchers are in the same building at the same time. Same place. Same time. One united fight.
United in Blue
February 28 – March 2 • National Mall
Volunteers plant more than 27,000 blue flags on the National Mall, directly in front of the Capitol — one flag for every young person expected to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2030. Anyone can help put them in the ground, welcome visitors, or take them down.
Call-on Congress
March 1 – March 2 · Capitol Hill
You meet your own senators and representatives face to face and ask them to fund colorectal cancer research. We train you the day before and go with you to the meetings. New this year: application required, and space is limited.
Global Think Tank
February 28 – March 1 · Washington, D.C.
Doctors and scientists from around the world spend two days deciding what to study next about colorectal cancer in people under 50 — in the same building as our advocates, so what they learn goes straight to Congress.
Your Impact Counts from Anywhere.
Most of our community fights from where they live, and it works. Start with something easy, or go all in — every one of these makes March louder.
Post a #StrongArmSelfie.
Flex, snap, tag @FightCRC · under 2 min. Flex your arm, snap a photo, and post it with #StrongArmSelfie and @FightCRC. It's how we show how many of us there are. Takes less than 2 minutes.
post your selfie
Take Action Online.
Pre-written email to Congress · under 2 min. Send a pre-written email to your members of Congress asking them to fund research. You just add your name — we wrote the rest. You can also ask your state to officially recognize March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Takes less than 2 minutes.
send your email
Order Gear and Free Resources.
Shirts, pins, and free brochures shipped to you. Shirts, sweatshirts, and pins to wear all month, plus free brochures you can leave at your doctor's office or hand to someone newly diagnosed. Free resources ship to you.
get your gear & Resources
Get the March Toolkit.
Graphics, captions, and facts · free download. A free folder of ready-made graphics, captions, and facts about screening. Download it and share one social post a week. Takes 10 minutes to set up.
Coming Soon ...
Share Your Story.
We carry it into Hill meetings · about 20 min. Tell us what happened to you or someone you love, in your own words. We want to carry your story with us to D.C. and share it with members of Congress. Takes about 20 minutes.
Tell Your Story
Host an awareness event.
Flag kit or event kit · plan a few weeks ahead. Set up a flag kit at your work, school, or yard. Or host an awareness event — we have an event kit for you to use. Plan a few weeks ahead.
order an event kit
Not Sure Where to Start?
The March toolkit has ready-made graphics, captions, and emails. Open it, pick one, post it.
Prevention Champions · year-round, from anywhere
Become a Prevention Champion
Prevention Champions are everyday people who help their neighbors get screened. You don’t need a medical background — we teach you the facts, hand you the materials, and you talk to the people you already know. Screening is how colorectal cancer gets caught early, when it’s most treatable.
- Get trained for
free A short online training on screening options, who needs one, and how to answer the common questions. - Start the conversations
Talk to family, coworkers, your church, or your barbershop — wherever people already trust you. - Use our materials
Free brochures, slides, and screening reminders you can hand out or email.
We Don’t Whisper. We Fight.
Call on Congress • Limited Space Available
You don’t need any experience, and you won’t be on your own. We train you the day before, give you the talking points, book your meetings, and pair you with other people from your state. All you bring is your story.
- Apply online. Tell us your state and your connection to this disease.
- We confirm your spot by email and send travel details.
- Training the day before — what to say and how to say it.
- You walk into your meetings with a small group from your state.
Applications close November 18th, 2026
Don’t Wait, Spots Go Fast.
For the first time, Call-on Congress has limited space. We want advocates from every state, and within your state it’s first come, first served — so apply early if you want a seat.
No one fights alone.
United in Blue · February 28
On the National Mall in Washington, D.C., volunteers plant over 27,000 blue flags to represent the number of young lives expected to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the year 2030. We must act now to raise awareness!
- flag installer
Plant
the flags in the ground on the Mall. - Set-up team
Unload supplies and lay out the field before the flags go in. - Volunteer support team
Greet volunteers, hand out shifts, and keep the day running.
The world's sharpest minds, at one table
Global Think Tank · February 28 – March 1 · Invitation only
Colorectal cancer is rising fast in people under 50, and no one country can solve that alone. So we bring doctors and scientists from around the world to Washington for two days to agree on what to study next — in the same building as our advocates, so what they learn goes straight to Congress.
- Decide what to study next
Researchers agree on the biggest unanswered questions about colorectal cancer in young adults. - Make testing more useful
Turn test results into treatment choices doctors and patients can actually act on. - Bring in more countries
Add hospitals and research centers worldwide so findings arrive faster. - Back up our ask to Congress
What the researchers find becomes the case our advocates make on Capitol Hil
Honor a Loved One
Give in honor or in memory of someone and their name goes up on the Wall of Champions — the roll call of the people this fight is for. We carry it with us to Washington.
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We can connect you with survivors, caregivers, and researchers who are willing to speak on the record, and provide photos from United in Blue and Capitol Hill.
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