We've been reporting on Movember over the past few months, but we're happy to announce that yesterday the charity closed out its 2010 fundraising efforts - bringing in a staggering $63 million dollars worldwide to help build both awareness and monetary support in fighting prostate cancer.
According to The Los Angeles Times: The preliminary numbers are in (there are still some matching funds that need to be counted, a Movember representative tells us), and the 64,438-strong American contingent of the global effort (up from 28,206 last year) raised $6,941,189 -- more than double last year's fundraising of $3.2 million and far beyond the organization's hoped-for $5 million. National bragging rights go to our Northern neighbors -- Canadians raised more than $20.5 million this Movember, just a whisker ahead of Australia (where the charity began in 2003) at $20.3 million. Worldwide, approximately 455,000 participants raised close to $63 million this year, compared to the 255,000 who raised $42 million in 2009.
It might be the year of the beard, but it was definitely the month of the mustache. 