Haas School of Business students participated in the largest MBA charitable fundraiser of the year. The Haas Challenge for Charity campaign is made up of nine West Coast business schools that compete in volunteering and fundraising. This year, Haas students participated in the No Shave November and Movember charity campaigns.
For No Shave November, students seek sponsors as they let their hair grow. At the end of the month, students auction off the chance for a creative trim from their classmates. This year, organizers for the full time MBA class renamed the campaign to No Shave-No Shame November to include those who can’t grow facial hair.
The team of students raised $40,000 for three organizations: the Special Olympics, Alameda Point Collaborative and Reading Partners. The Shave-Off auction consisted of almost 200 students bidding on the chance to trim 38 classmates.
Executive MBA students organized a Movember campaign. The drive raised over $7,000 for the Movember Foundation, which focuses on men’s health initiatives. The Movember EMBAs held a pre-Thanksgiving celebration with awards for Most Mo, Worst Mo (this Mo needs to go), Creepiest Mo, and Best Mo (most professional and distinguished).
The evening and weekend MBA students also organized a C4C campaign, led by Oon and Nachiket Torwekar, MBA 16. Instead of a no-shave event,these programs organized a fundraising competition between the classes of 2015, 2016 and 2017. So far, the classes have raised almost $4,000. The fundraising campaign ran through Dec. 7, 2014.