{"id":531,"date":"2012-11-14T17:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T01:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2012-11-14T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T01:51:01","slug":"how-a-moustache-changed-the-face-of-charity-the-story-of-how-mo-vember-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/531\/how-a-moustache-changed-the-face-of-charity-the-story-of-how-mo-vember-began\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Moustache Changed the Face of Charity:  The Story of How &#8220;Mo-vember&#8221; Began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just having a conversation the other day with someone who wondered why the moustache population spikes during the month of November.\u00c2\u00a0 Look no farther than this link here: <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.movember.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">What is Mo-vember?<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 Essentially, everyday men and celebrities alike put on a brave face and grow their best (or worst) moustache to raise awareness and fund raise for prostate cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 Funny? Yes. But that doesn&#8217;t discredit it&#8217;s legitimacy: the movement funds research across 13 different countries and last year alone raised 77 million dollars for its cause.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d always wondered how facial hair could spark such a movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/uk-moustache-bar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-575\" title=\"uk-moustache-bar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/uk-moustache-bar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One of it&#8217;s founders, Adam Garone explains &#8216;Mo-vember&#8221;s\u00c2\u00a0 inspirational story with humour and insight:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Healthier men, one moustache at a time: Adam Garone at TEDxToronto\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yQvbKfEKLMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My life has become about a Moustache.\u00c2\u00a0 Essentially, I&#8217;m a Moustache Farmer, and my season is November&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(<strong>No time to watch it? Here&#8217;s a brief summary<\/strong>:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Adam talks about how his charity organization differs from others because the cause actually came later.\u00c2\u00a0 He, his brother and a friend decided to make a November challenge for themselves: try and bring the moustache back in style and turn it into a hilarious competition in the process.\u00c2\u00a0 It was so poorly received by their family, their employers, and their girlfriends that they decided they needed a cause to legitimize it.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s when they started researching Men&#8217;s Health issues and found that Prostate Cancer is a leading men&#8217;s health concern.\u00c2\u00a0 Like Breast Cancer for women, except the fundraising structures were no where near as prominent.\u00c2\u00a0 They developed a passion for\u00c2\u00a0 bringing awareness to this health concern and coined the phrase &#8220;Changing the Face of Men&#8217;s Health&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Adam says that the strength of Movember today comes from harnessing &#8220;Creativity, Passion, Persistence and Patience&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 He wants his Mo-vember story to inspire people to make a positive change by create something significant in their own life.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just having a conversation the other day with someone who wondered why the moustache population spikes during the month of November.\u00c2\u00a0 Look no farther than this link here: What is Mo-vember?\u00c2\u00a0 Essentially, everyday men and celebrities alike put on a brave face and grow their best (or worst) moustache to raise awareness and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":72,"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}