Save the Date for NSAW 2008:

March 3 - 9, 2008

National Sleep Awareness Week® (NSAW) 2008 is fast approaching and NSF already has a full calendar of NSAW-related events and activities planned for the coming year.

To see media highlights from NSAW 2007, click here!


Here is a quick glimpse of NSAW 2008:

• NSF's 8^th Annual Awards Dinner: A Celebration of Sleep Leadership - the 2008 awards dinner will be held on March 3, 2008, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. Learn more about the annual awards dinner now, including how to purchase tickets.
  
  
• NSF's Great American Sleep Challenge^™ - NSF's Great American Sleep Challenge is a fun, interactive online campaign designed to improve Americans' sleep. The new-and-improved Sleep Challenge will offer something for everyone! The 2008 Sleep Challenge will begin on March 3, 2008.
  
  
• NSF's 2008 Sleep in America poll will focus on how sleep impacts work performance and how working long hours may interfere with sleep. Poll results will be released March 4, 2008, but Community Sleep Awareness Partners will have early access to poll findings and analyses.
  
  
• The Role of Sleep in Memory and Learning, NSF's scientific conference to be held March 3-4, 2008, will bring together leading experts from diverse backgrounds to discuss the role of sleep in learning and memory consolidation. Get more information about the conference, draft agenda and more, now.
  
  
• NSF's Advocacy Training and Capitol Hill Day will be held on Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Sleep Advocates will receive a briefing on current issues as well as training on how to conduct meetings with legislators. Contact NSF Government Affairs Manager John Rancourt at jrancourt@sleepfoundation.org for more information.
  
  
• NSF's 2008 Healthy Sleep Community Award. The NSF Healthy Sleep Community Award recognizes outstanding efforts by a town, city, district, state, or other community organization to initiate or continue a sleep activity or program with effective, long-lasting results on a significant proportion of a population. Get more information here.

Stay tuned to NSF Alert for more information about NSAW 2008 events and activities.

NSAW 2007 Events

• Press Release: Stressed-Out American Women Have No Time for Sleep 3/6/07
  
• Press Release: Schneider National, Inc. Wins National Sleep Foundation’s 2007 Healthy Sleep Community Award for Innovative Sleep Apnea Screening Program
  
• NSAW Events
  
• Participate in the NSF Great American Sleep Challenge!
  
• Pictures and highlights of the 7th annual Night of a Thousand Dreams gala will be posted shortly. Please stay tuned.

NSAW Resources