SIDEARM Sports, CoSIDA's offical website provider, has embarked on a wonderful initiative for the month of November - and invites all (male) CoSIDA members to participate. Below, SIDEARM CEO Jeff Rubin shares a letter with CoSIDA, outlining his company's reason for joining the national
Movember movement and invites ALL CoSIDA members to join in the cause - and mustache-growing fun.
Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces, in the U.S. and around the world. With their Mo’s, these men raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men.
For each and every CoSIDA member who participates in SIDEARM's “challenge,” SIDEARM Sports will be making a donation to the Movember Foundation - their cash for your ‘stache! In favor of a little healthy competition, SIDEARM has decided to give several great prizes for the best (and worse) 'staches, too!
Click here to register and participate.
To our CoSIDA colleagues:
On November 1st, all male employees within SIDEARM Sports will be taking part in “Movember” (
www.movember.com) – A cancer awareness and fundraising campaign based around growing mustaches.
The rules are simple: shave your face clean on the 1st, and don’t shave your mustache until November has ended, effectively turning yourself into a walking billboard promoting the cause.
Personally I have never gone more than 3 days without shaving (I believe I had the flu). However, when SIDEARM Sports’s creative director, Chris Kirkegaard came to me with the idea, it was an easy “yes.”
Nearly everyone knows someone who has fought cancer.
This past year, after a heroic fight, Chris’s mother lost her 14-month battle with small cell lung cancer.
Watching Chris and his family go through this was incredibly difficult and gut-wrenching for me. Knowing that his infant son, Rexton, wouldn’t have much time with his grandmother, Chris would pack his family in the car and take drive the two- hour roundtrip drive to see his mother nearly every day after work. As a company, we all felt helpless during her fight.
Now, a few months later, Chris and everyone at SIDEARM Sports wants to make sure we do everything in our power to help to find a cure for this wretched disease.
Last month, Chris sent an email to all of the guys within SIDEARM Sports to see who would be interested in participating in Movember with him, and within an hour, he had 100 percent participation. With our staff eager and willing, we decided it was time to make this bigger than just our company, so we opened the invitation to our extended SIDEARM Family, our clients. After sending an email to see if folks were interested we were thrilled to get many to participate, including former
CoSIDA president Larry Dougherty of Temple.
So now, of course, we want to go even bigger! For each and every one of you that participates in our “challenge,” SIDEARM Sports will be making a donation to the Movember Foundation. That’s right, our cash for your ‘stache! Since we’re all in favor of a little healthy competition, we’ve decided to give a few awesome prizes for the best (and worse) 'staches, too!
I realize that that some of you may be existing SIDEARM customers, and others of you may be with one of our competitors, but when it comes to fighting cancer, we are all in this together. We must find an end to this horrible disease.
Are you ready to grow your 'stache, join the SIDEARM team and kick cancer’s butt? Please click this link to participate!
http://sidearmsports.com/movember.aspx
Happy Mustache Growing!
Jeff Rubin
CEO SIDEARM Sports