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Oct 05, 2011

Go 'bald' for cancer patients

BBBB1No matter what you’re doing on Friday, Oct. 21, whether it’s teaching on campus or working at an office on Wilshire, make sure to be "bald" while doing it! The Be Bold, Be Bald! fundraiser is coming to UCLA, and it’s the best excuse you’ll find to support cancer research and show solidarity with survivors, all while wearing a bald cap.

Since 2009 the organization, Small Army for a Cause, has raised more than $250,000 through “Be Bold, Be Bald!” and this year the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation is one of the event beneficiaries. Not content to watch, the JCCF has started its own UCLA Fights Cancer fundraising team and is looking to recruit new members. Fifteen people are on the team so far, so to reach their goal of 100 members the JCCF wants your help spreading news of the event to staff, faculty, students, alumni and friends.

Come Oct. 21, thousands of people across the country will be sponsored to wear their bald caps as they go about their daily business. “The amazing thing about Be Bold, Be Bald!,” said JCCF Special Events Coordinator Rebecca De Haro, “is that you can participate wherever you are, and it’s so affordable and accessible that everyone can be involved.”

Here at UCLA participants will get the opportunity to gather together and show off their collective baldness during a brief event at the Bruin Bear (time to be announced on the JCCF team website).

For a registration fee of just $20 – about the cost of a week’s worth of daily coffee – participants will receive a bald cap, a Be Bold, Be Bald! t-shirt, a poster and other fundraising materials. Of course participants are always welcome to make a more emphatic statement and simply shave their heads, in which case fundraising materials are available for free.

The deadline to register is Oct. 14, so make sure to check out the sign-up instructions at the JCCF information page (or go to the UCLA Fights Cancer team website directly) and ensure that your bald cap arrives on time. If you miss the deadline or aren’t in a position to wear the cap on the 21, donations are welcome through the day of the event. 

After going through so much, losing their hair is just one more emotionally trying event for cancer patients that can make them feel cut off from the experiences of people around them. So help the JCCF, Small Army for a Cause, and cancer patients and survivors across the country by being bold enough to go bald.