Pin-Ups For Vets

A few years ago, I started seeing news articles about under-funded Veterans’ healthcare programs. Then, there were stories about older Veterans who lay in bed day after day, never receiving any visitors. Reports started surfacing on TV about the severe injuries sustained by our troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The more I heard about the uphill battles of our Wounded Warriors, the more convinced I was of the need to produce a project that would bring in funds to support all of our hospitalized Veterans.

Purchase the calendar at Pin-Ups for Vets. Press coverage at Wonkette and Diary of a Nudist.

Risque Rescue Calendar

Published by Great Dane Rescue of Plymouth, MI.

Our mission is to place neglected and/or unwanted Great Danes into loving, permanent homes. Our coverage area includes Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama (and parts of neighboring states of Alabama), Northwestern Kentucky, parts of Wisconsin, parts of Ohio and Ontario, Canada.

Lindale's Calendar Boys

A group of working men from Lindale near Grange-over-Sands have been tensing their torsos and posing for photographs for a cheeky new calendar, which it is hoped will raise much-needed funds for projects in the village. ...The calendar will be available to buy at a variety of outlets in South Lakeland, including Lindale Village Stores.

Press coverage by the Westmoreland Gazette.

Surgery Girls

Receptionists, nurses, pharmacy dispensers and even a doctor at the Ryan Medical Centre, in St Mary's Road, have stripped off for a calendar which aims to raise more than £5,000 for the centre's Tender Nursing Care charity.

Charity president and GP at the centre, Dr Anne Allister said: "We had a lot of fun doing it and all the girls were very keen to take part once we had mentioned the idea."

Already dozens of patients at the centre have inquired about the calendars, which will be on sale at the centre's flu clinic later this month.

Press coverage at the Preston Citizen. The calendar is only available in person at Ryan Medical Centre.

Humboldt Honey

The calendars feature 12 Humboldt County women in 12 natural locations chosen by the women, including Fern Canyon, Patrick's Point, Avenue of the Giants, and the Lost Coast.

The women, chosen from a pool of contest entries last October, have each selected a Humboldt County charity, including the Northcoast Environmental Center, The Raven Project, the Humboldt Community Breast Health Project and the North Coast Rape Crisis Center. Each charity will receive a percentage of the profits from the calendar's sales.

Available from Humboldt Honey. Press coverage at Times-Standard.

Barely There -- Take II

Getting your kit off is becoming an annual event for Massey third-year veterinary science students. For the second year, students have stripped for charity to produce a 2007-2008 calendar called Barely There – Take II. ...Ten per cent of the proceeds of the sales of the calendar are going to the New Zealand Wildlife Health Centre, which treats ill and injured native birds, reptiles and mammals.

Available at the official site of the Massey University Vet Student Calendar. Press coverage at Scoop.

Posed for the Cure

The 11 women - all in their 60s and 70s, all grandmothers, all living in the same neighborhood off Jordan Creek Parkway - had met each other within the past couple of years. ...Two of the women had survived breast cancer. One had a son who survived breast cancer. Another had an aunt who'd survived. A fifth had a sister who'd survived breast cancer as well as a mother and grandmother who had died from the disease.

Then, about a year ago, came a bright idea.

COST: $15 per calendar and $1.50 shipping for each of the first five ordered, or $9 shipping for six or more. SEND CHECKS TO: Calendar Gals Cancer Fund Inc., P.O. Box 7129, Des Moines, IA 50325. E-mail: cgals@hickorytech.net.

Above information from the Des Moines Register.