Movember

We are team GGFYP!

Go Mo!

 

GGFYP Movember Show Down
Nov 30, 2012
7:30 pm
Rhombus Guys
Pizza Buffet available ($10 + tax/person)
Suggested Dress Code: “Ugly Sweater” Best
Featuring Local Celebrity Judges! 

 

Movember is the global men’s health charity engaging men to grow and women to support the Mo (moustache) for the 30 days of November.  Through the power of the moustache, awareness and funds are raised for men’s health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.

 

Register at Movember.com to grow or support a Mo.  Men start November 1 clean-shaven and grow their moustache for 30 days, getting friends, family and colleagues to donate to their Mo-growing efforts. Women are very important to the Movember campaign. Mo Sistas get involved in the same way as Mo Bros, except they don’t grow a Mo.

 

Team URL: http://us.movember.com/team/423389

 

Or, you can go to movember.com and search for our team: GGFYP

 

Mo Bros – Men who grow a moustache for Movember

The growth of a moustache on an otherwise bare lip sparks both public and private discussion; Mo Bros effectively becoming a walking, talking billboards for men’s health for 30 days, raising funds along the way.

 

Mo Sistas – Women who love the Mo and actively support Movember and the men in their life

 

Movember Rules:

  1. Each Mo Bro must begin the 1st of Movember with a clean shaven face.
  2. For the entire month of Movember, each Mo Bro must grow and groom a moustache.
  3. There is to be no joining of the mo to your side burns. That’s considered a beard.
  4. There is to be no joining of the handlebars to your chin. That’s considered a goatee.
  5. Each Mo Bro must conduct himself like a true gentleman.

 

Why is Movmeber important?

  • In 2012, more than 242,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 28,000 men will die from prostate cancer.
  • One new prostate cancer case occurs every 2.1 minutes.
  • A man dies from prostate cancer every 18.6 minutes.
  • Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men.
  • The incidence rates for prostate cancer are significantly higher in African American men.
  • Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in men.
  • 97% of prostate cancer cases occur in men age 50 and older.
  • 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, 1 in 3 women will be.
  • 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.
  • Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in American males between the ages of 15 and 34.
  • 1 in 270 men will be diagnosed with testicular cancer during their lifetime.

 

Funds:
Movember, along with our men’s health partners Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting innovative, world-class programs in three areas: awareness/education, survivorship and research.

Click here for Donation Cards