The Movember Foundation uses the month of November to challenge men to grow facial hair to inspire one another to live happier, healthier and longer lives. The foundation has raised more than $650 million and helped fund more than 1,000 breakthrough men’s health programs in 21 countries.
Movember’s outreach has extended through its partnership with the NHL and Hockey Fights Cancer. The annual Hockey Fights Cancer campaign, launched Oct. 19 and running until Nov. 13, is a joint initiative between the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association that’s raised more than $15 million since its inception in 1998.
Twenty-five NHL teams and 369 players contributed to Movember last year, according to the Movember Foundation. The Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, and Carolina Hurricanes ranked as the League’s top-three fundraising teams. Every team in Canada registered and participated, and player participation grew 16 percent from 2013 with Canadiens forward Brendan Gallagher emerging as the top fundraiser.
Not bad for a movement that began unexpectedly 12 years ago when Adam Garone, an Australian Army officer at the time, joined his brother Travis and two friends for a few beers. Little did Garone realize a discussion about fashion that morphed into the lost art of growing a mustache would plant a seed for a campaign that in 2014 had more than 166,000 participants in the United States and raised more than $20 million for men’s health, and 281,820 people raising more than $36 million (U.S.) across North America.
“Movember started with four of us,” Garone said, “and we went on to inspire a room full of people, 30 of us. The next year it was 450 people, and then it was 10,000 people in Australia and New Zealand. For the full article click here
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