Grow a Moustache. Create a Fitness or Adventure Challenge. Or Even Jump Out of a Plane. There Are Ways For Everyone to Participate in Movember’s Drive to Change the Face of Men’s Health.

Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men’s health, focusing on mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. #Movember is coming soon! To sign up to participate or to make a donation, please visit movember.com

There has never been a better and more important time to have fun, do good and raise funds for men’s health. That is Movember’s MO. And whether its by growing a moustache or jumping out of a plane, many are joining Movember’s global push to help change the face of men’s health.

This past summer, Mo Bro, Rian Kanouff, bared it all on his mission to save lives. He completed over 60 naked skydives, setting a world record for the most naked skydives in 24 hours, all in support of mental health and suicide prevention. Kanouff also aimed to raise money for the Movember Foundation, a charity that focuses on men’s mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer.

Rian was spurred into action after experiencing the loss of several people close to him due to suicide. Within a single year, these losses have included his grandfather, a man he truly looked up to and respected, his childhood best friend, who was a respected former Paratrooper and Army Ranger, his first skydiving student, who grew to become one of his best friends, and a former member of his skydiving club:

“My friend was very close to his 100th dive. Traditionally in the skydive community, your 100th jump is made naked. He unfortunately never got to make that skydive.”

An extreme sports athlete, motivational speaker, and skydiving and wind tunnel coach, Rian made his naked skydives as a tribute to his friend and all other that he has lost, and to those who continue to battle and struggle with mental health issues today:

“I truly believe in what I’m doing and why I’m doing it…Preventing even just one family or friend from having to deal with the devastating consequences of mental health issues will be the greatest accomplishment of it all.”

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So many of us feel a deeply personal connection to men’s mental health issues, whether we have experienced them ourselves or witnessed friends, family and loved ones suffer.

These personal connections have inspired millions who want to “just do something” to join the ever-growing Movember global community, raising money to help and spreading awareness about critical men’s health issues.

Of course, not everyone is the jumping-out-of-airplanes-in-the-buff sort. Even for a great cause.

Luckily, you don’t have to be a naked skydiver to participate in Movember.  As Movember is fond of saying, “However you Mo, will save a Bro.”

There are a number of of easy, fun and creative ways to participate in Movember, including:

• Growing a Moustache – The tried and true Movember way! Use your face to raise funds and awareness for men’s health!

• Move For Movember – Run or Walk 60 miles during the month of November in honor of the 60 men we lose to suicide every hour across the world

• Host a Mo-Ment – Rally a crew and do something fun and easy, in-person or virtually. Think up events that’ll encourage friends and family to donate. Trivia night, anyone?

• Mo Your Own Way – Choose your own adventure challenge! You set the limits. Whether its a pledge to get rid of a bad habit, or a grueling test of physical endurance.

No matter what pathway you choose to join the movement, your fundraising could help save a father, a brother, a son, a friend, a partner, or a man’s life.

#Movember is coming soon!

To sign up to participate or to make a donation, please visit movember.com

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Photo Credit: Amanda Horner with permission from Movember

This post is sponsored by Movember.

About Movember:

Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men’s health on a global scale, focusing on mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.

With money raised by its global community, Movember funds groundbreaking medical research, innovative cancer tests and treatments, and game-changing mental health interventions – over 1,250 projects around the world and counting.

Along the way, millions have joined the movement. In addition to tackling the key health issues faced by men, the charity’s mission is to motivate men to stay healthy in all areas of life, with an emphasis on social connection, talking more often and openly about their physical and mental health, and reaching out in tough times.

Movember’s vision is to have an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health. To donate or learn more, please visit Movember.com.

Join us in Movember – there’s never been a better time to have fun, do good and raise funds for men’s health.