Au Naturel, Too

Calendar for a cause - Country Messenger

The 18-month calendar showcases many of the well-known Scandia and Marine on St. Croix [MN] residents posing nearly-nude behind the items of their trade.

Professional photographer Verna Pitts and her business partner, graphic artist Jeni O'Brien, masterminded the project. The two were inspired by the movie "Calendar Girls," in which members of a ladies' social club pose nude for a fundraiser calendar.

As the "Too" in the name suggestions, the 2011-2012 calendar is the second of its kind. Pitts and O'Brien produced the first calendar in 2006, which also featured residents of Scandia and Marine nearly-nude, to raise funds for Jenna Lynn, a teen from Scandia who was battling a rare form of bone cancer. Jenna died in 2008 at 18.

Jenna's parents, Jeff and Jan Lynn, posed for the latest edition of the calendar. Jan said the original calendar helped pay for cancer treatments and improved the quality of life for her daughter. With a second calendar in the works, the two said they were honored to be on its pages as a way to give back to those who had given to them.

"We needed to be in there for somebody else," Jan Lynn said. "It's for a good cause and it brings the two communities together."

Now, six years after the first calendar, the towns again came together to create a calendar, this time for Toni Poletes, an owner of Ostlund's Marine Garage. Poletes, 52, has metastatic breast cancer and is struggling to pay medical bills after her insurance notified her she maxed out her coverage in March.

$30. Buy it here.

New Bern NC

Women, 70 and up, pose nude for charity - WCTI New Bern

The first calendar came out in 2008, this is the second installment.
"That was going to be the one and only one we did. Well here I sit. Got talked into doing it again and we just had the best time," Fawcett said.
Profits from the $15 calendars will go to two local charities: M.E.R.C.I. Clinic and Religious Community Services.

I haven't found a way to order it.

Can't we all just get along... naked?

Well, this was unexpected.

Naked fury! Why Calendar Girls are going into battle - The Independent

The amateur rights for the [stage] play, based on the true story of members of Rylstone and District Women's Institute in Yorkshire stripping off for a charity calendar, are being released for the first time for 12 months from 1 September next year. The producers hope to establish a Guinness World Record for the most productions of one play in a year, with a percentage of the royalties going to Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.

But the limited window – combined with unprecedented demand – is frustrating drama groups. Mr Pugh has received angry telephone calls from some "very forthright" amateur dramatics societies complaining that other local groups are also planning to stage the play. In some cases, they are "fighting over" the same theatre or church hall.

Now, if every group who wanted to produce this play just ignored the others and went ahead and did it, I could foresee a number of things happening.

• A world record well and truly shattered
• Massive amounts of money for leukemia research, surely not a bad thing
• An unprecedented amount of female nudity (of, ahem, more mature nature than average)
• Saturation of the market?

Really? That's what they're afraid of? Too many naked old ladies? And they can say that with a straight face?

Dr. Showmore

In celebration of the 250 year history of the profession of veterinary medicine, The Center for Integrative Veterinary Care [Hopkinton, MA] has produced an educational calendar for 2011 called Dr. ShowMore. Each month depicts a different modality or procedure. The proceeds will support student scholarships and the filming of Dr.DoMore. The calendar is done in the theme of the Movie "Calendar Girls" and both animals and humans are "au natural."

$10. Buy it here.

Air Comet

Spanish babes strip for wages | The Sun |NewsAIR stewardesses grounded by a British judge have stripped off for a saucy calendar in a bid to get back missing wages.
Spanish-based budget airline Air Comet went bust last December after the High Court in London ordered the company to stop using its planes and selling tickets.
Stewardesses employed by the firm decided on their naked protest after failing to get up to eight months of unpaid salaries.
More than 1,000 calendars featuring nine women in their flight caps, gloves and high heels have gone on sale for £13.

Not exactly a charity, but close enough...
See also the Daily Mail, Euro Weekly... -- heck, just do a Google search for Air Comet Calendar and you'll see dozens.

Men in Hats

Northumbrian Water - Hats off to calendar boys!Cheeky chappies from a local water company have stripped off for a worthy cause.
Twelve Northumbrian Water workers from around the region have bared all for a charity calendar, with only a selection of strategically-placed props to preserve their modesty!
Five hundred copies of the 'Men in Hats' 2010 calendar, priced at £3 each, have been produced to raise £1,500 for Samaritans Durham, which offers 24 hour emotional support for anyone experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide.

See Northumbrian Water for (dated) purchase information. Or just see the Independent.

Cantabria schools

Teachers pose naked for calendar in aid of Peruvian children

CALENDAR girls from Cantabria schools have raised enough funds to send four indigenous Peruvian children to university.

A group of female teachers from the northern region have posed naked – but with their modesty carefully covered up by their hands and other props – for a 2010 calendar as part of their charitable efforts.

Plenty of opportunities to see more of the images -- try MDZ or ThinkSpain -- but if the calendar has an official page it's beyond my limited grasp of Spanish to find.