Hey Mozzers!
This year marks the first year that the Moz staff (of all genders) have banded together to form an official Movember team.
What's Movember?
Well, Movember is a fundraising effort that started in 2004 to help raise money for men’s health issues. Since then, it has spread to over a hundred countries around the world and has almost one million participants. In 2011, 854,000 Mo-Bros and Mo-Sistas joined the cause to help raise over $126 million to help “change the face of men’s health.” These funds go toward finding cures for men’s health issues such as prostate and testicular cancer.
Now that we're almost at 100 employees here at Moz, we thought we could pull together a decent sized team this year. As of today, we have over 30 team members and will work to raise as much money as we can during the month of November. Our famously bearded CEO, Rand Fishkin, has agreed to join the team and is already sporting his new clean-shaven look!
Rand in his Halloween costume yesterday
How Do I Donate?
While growing a mustache for 30 days is probably something many Mozzers would do without any motivation, the main reason we’re doing this is to raise money for charity. We’re also a pretty competitive bunch here at Moz so we want to see how much money we can raise and would love your support. Plus, here’s the best part... now that Moz has a new benefit perk of 150% charity matching, we’ll be able to more than double our final tally with money from Roger!
Each Mozzer who is participating has an individual profile page that you can donate to (below). The money each Mozzer raises will go towards our overall team goal.
You can also donate directly to the Team MozStaches page here: https://us.movember.com/team/547105
Show Me The Team
Here’s a list of each Mozzer who is participating and a link to their profile pages:
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Can I Participate Also?
Of course! We’d love to see members of the Moz Community also participate in Movember. Think your company can raise more money than us? We welcome any and all friendly competition! Send us your pics of your fine mustaches as well, and we’ll see how they compare to the Mozstaches.
Will You Be Documenting This?
Why yes we will. We plan on taking photos every day (and posting them to Facebook) to document the mustaches as they grow from infant stage to something Ron Burgundy would be proud of. Also, Roger was pretty darn excited about this chance to raise money for his human counterparts and decided to join in the fun. Keep on the lookout for photos as his robotic stache takes shape.
Thanks again for all your support and helping us raise money for charity!
#Movember Love During Mozcation Portsmouth, NH!
Portsmouth Foursquare is hosting checkin-for-charity at Mozcation to benefit Movember! To participate, check-in on foursquare at The Music Hall during the event and for every person that checks in (up to a swarm badge - 50 people), a donation will be made to the Movember Foundation. If you are interested in sponsoring please let Porstmouth Foursquare know by filling in their form at https://bit.ly/pledge4checkins.
I love this so much! A few minutes ago everyone was gathered in the kitchen getting their photos taken all clean shaven. Our team looks like they're all in high school now! :) Thanks for doing this everyone.
I don’t know about others but Rand looks great in cleanshave. Here are some moz staff images https://pinterest.com/seomoz/moz-halloween-2012-contest/.
The team here at FIRST in New Zealand is also doing Movember.Checkout our team page at https://nz.movember.com/team/604217. I shaved my beard for the first time in nearly 10 years https://mobro.co/mikechild
I wish you all the most luck guys. I am doing a low key Movember this year, as I had done a big push last year. My Dad died from Prostate Cancer in November 2010 and anyone who raises awareness of this hideous and yet preventable disease, is alright in my book.
Go MO BRO's!!!
Great idea and a great cause. Looks like Koos made the biggest sacrifice! Good luck with the fundraising!!
There is no way that's Rand in the Boy scouts costume. It has taken 5 years off him.
Guys u r sooo funny ;)) Great shots!)
IMO, I think Koos is going to win.
This will be great!! I'm probably not going to be participating in Movember this year because...well...beards or moustaches don't grow on me in a month! Just stubble. But I'll be rooting for everyone and will probably donate! Go Movember!
Awesome! I just got diagnosed with Prostate Cancer this year & I'm doing Movember, too. Well done MOZ
Great job Moz, though I seem to have an inability to grow facial hair, I will be donating to charaties for Movember :)
Ha ha :)
Rand's costume's not so bad, but Derric's one is definitly the best..
Cheers to all challengers !
nicely done. We're waiting for the picture of the moz female employees that have cheaped in on growing mustaches as well! :-D
Warning, tough question...How does one grow a mustache if their awesome and loving wife likes them clean? Always ;)
Rand, way to be a true leader!
Justin, thank you for putting this all together for the right cause!
I would not recognize Rand in that costume and clean-shaven if he was wearing a name tag that said, "Rand" and walked into me at a conference. Heck, even if it was in an SEOMoz t-shirt I still don't think I'd believe him.
Wow, Rand looks so young! Good Luck team MOZvember.
Are all of the pre-bearded men going to shave and start clean?
Yep! It was a scary site in the office today with all those clean chins. :)
I just donated to David Weiser because of his little bunny ears.
OMG, yes Rand, you do look like you're 12 years old just like you mentioned in the mozinar this morning. LOL. You and David Bunny Ears Rock!
I love all the pics of SEOmoz team. some members pics are funny Like- Phil Smith, David Kosciuk, David Weiser, Miranda Rensch, Lisa Wildwood, And Rand Fishkin Really Enjoying :)
May I suggest everyone grow a Fu Mozchu?