MOVEMBER!
The full-month charity extravaganza known as Movember has begun. Throughout the month, men all over the world will grow mustaches (and the occasional beard) in an effort to raise awareness for men’s health issues with a primary focus on Testicular and Prostate Cancer. The international organizers of Movember have teamed up with the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Prostate Cancer Foundation and will be splitting the money raised by Movember between the two.
The Prostate Cancer Foundation will use the money raised by Movember to fund research to find better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer, while the Lance Armstrong Foundation will use the money raised by Movember to fund the LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance program, which has the goal of improving survival rates and quality of life for young adults with cancer between the ages of 15 and 40. They will provide additional funds toward research initiatives to further understand the biology of adolescent and young adult cancers.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to the fun stuff. In an effort to raise some quality funds and have a supremely fun time this year, a few of us have banded together to form Boh Knows Movember, a rag-tag team of gents and ladies dedicated to raising funds for the charity, as well as throwing a kickass pub crawl along Fort Avenue on Saturday, November 21st (as was previously mentioned unofficially). The pub crawl costs $25 and will include $1 Bohs, T-shirts (while supplies last), door prizes at each and every bar and tons of bonus prizes throughout the day. A full list of other specials provided by each bar will hit our flagship site, movemberbaltimore.com very soon.
Full list of stuff of interest regarding prizes and fun:
- First 25 registered for the pub crawl receive FREE AVIATOR SUNGLASSES ($18 value) from Diece Boutique in Federal Hill!
- Free decorative mustaches for the ladies!
- Over 50 gift certificates up for grabs to 15 local restaurants! (to be given away during event and throughout the month)
- “Stache Bash” – an interactive showdown of the world’s greatest mustaches – coming soon!
- Team member Gutter Magazine is running THE MANLY MOVIE COUNTDOWN – a countdown of the most manliest of manly movies leading up to the 21st, with a kickass prize for guessing the #1 movie!
So you’re ready to register for this awesome party, right? Great. Just head to movemberbaltimore.com and register (it’s the best way for us to know how many shirts to order, k?).
If you cannot attend the pub crawl, but would like to donate to the cause anyway, you can donate directly to the team here!
Additionally…
The pub crawl’s Facebook page!
And once more with feeling, the official website.
I recommend STRONGLY you pay attention to any of those social media outlets and keep your eyes peeled for surprise contests and prizes throughout the month. This Movember is going to be fantastic.