Sunday, June 5, 2016

Advocacy Through Advertisement


March of Dimes has been advertising for years about the issues of premature babies. March of Dimes fights premature birth and uses research to find answers to the various questions about this issue.  March of Dimes works with the local communities and has global programs that helps to support babies everywhere. Every year, especially in the month of March there are activities that people have locally to help raise money to support the research and advocacy of this organization. March of Dimes also has televised advertisement that helps to reach more people. As much advertising this organization does, they are able to reach millions of people around the work to help advocate for premature births.
Another advertisement campaigns that stood out to me are autism awareness and childhood asthma. The autism awareness topic teaches us to become more aware of autism and the results of autism research. It teaches us that early detection and intervention can give great improvements over a lifetime. Low diagnosis among low income families, as well as African American and Hispanics is higher than the general public. There has been a 30 percent increase in the past two years regarding the increase of autism in children. The Ad council encourages children of young children to visit the Autism Speaks website and to learn about the various ways to help their child with this condition. Advertisment in this advocacy uses celebrities with children with autism to tell people about their own personal experience and to tell about the importance of early detection and intervention.                                                                     
References

Council, A. (2016). Autism Awareness. Retrieved from Ad Council: Inspiring Change, Improving Lives: http://www.adcouncil.org/Our-Campaigns/Health/Autism-Awareness

Dimes, M. o. (2016). Retrieved from March of Dimes: A Fighting Chance For Every Baby: http://www.marchofdimes.org/index.aspx

2 comments:

  1. Angel, I enjoyed reading your post. I really like the way March of Dimes works on a local and global level to convey their message. In my opinion, this is a great way to reach the widest vareity of people.

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  2. Angel,
    March of dimes has been around for sometime, they have many initiatives to raise awareness on their campaigns. They circulate a lot of literature and solicit funds through the mail. Autism affects a number of persons, the spectrum on which an individual can have autism can be mild or extreme. As the autism speak campaign grows many persons become informed on autism related issues.
    Jeanelle Hodge

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