How can I go about changing the color of a specific cause's Awareness Ribbon?

My mother has pancreatic cancer, and so I recently learned that our color is grey! GREY! I mean, I know that the pancreas is grey and not a very pretty organ, but COME ON!!

I've also thought about finding a way to change our "represented" color. This is my thought -- there is no overarching organization that "owns" the colors, meaning that there isn't some sort of government group that hands out the colors and keeps track to make sure that there is an even distribution along the spectrum. :) (Funny idea, through.)

I don't know what your specific cause might be, but let's take Lung Cancer, for instance. (It happens to be "pearl".) I would contact the non-profit organization that is most respected and renouned in that specific issue. In this case, it happens to be the American Lung Association. Talk to their marketing people about your views and why you think that...oh...I don't know...violet is a better color than pearl.

Depending upon how much they are sold on pearl, have set up pearl marketing campaigns, etc, and how much the general population already associates the disease with pearl, they are more likely to change their view and start using violet instead. Since they are the most respected, they sort of de facto change the color scheme, and everyone else will fall in line.

If, however, a certain disease just sort of "owns" a certain color (red - AIDS, pink - breast cancer, yellow - veterans) the likelihood of changing it is very very unlikely.

I recommend you abandon this whole silly idea of ribbons to begin with. What is the purpose of the ribbon? Instead of buying "awareness ribbons", why not just donate that money to whatever cause you prefer?