We came in second by $243
Last year we just missed first place. This year, let's finish the job.
It’s Skinny Dip Week! Just five days out from Skinny Dip Day, and we’re in the home stretch! I want to be honest about why I keep bringing this up: we’re close to something, and I’d love your help getting there.
Last year, Team Planet Nude raised $3,254 for the Fistula Foundation. It was our best year ever, more than five surgeries funded, dippers sending in photos from all over the world. We finished second overall, just $243 behind Gunnison Beach. Two hundred and forty-three dollars. A few more donations and we’d have topped the whole leaderboard.
So this year, I’ll say it plainly: I want first place. Not because the competition is the point, it isn’t, every team is raising money for the same women and the same cause. But a little friendly rivalry is good for the soul, and more to the point, chasing the top spot means more surgeries funded, more women cured. Winning here means something real.
Here’s where we stand right now:
$872 raised. Enough to fund one surgery, with a start on the next.
If you’ve been meaning to donate, this is the moment. Every dollar goes straight to the Fistula Foundation, and a single surgery, $624, gives a woman back her health, her dignity, and her place in her community. You don’t have to dip, send a photo, or buy a thing. All of the details for how to participate are below. We just need you to give.
Why we dip
Skinny Dip Day is a fundraiser for the Fistula Foundation, which provides free surgeries to women suffering from obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that causes chronic incontinence and deep social isolation. It’s a devastating condition, and it’s curable. Just $624 covers one full surgery and gives a woman back her health, her dignity, and her place in her community. As SkinnyDipDay.org founder Thomas Francine likes to point out, it’s a cause with a fitting overlap: it cures women of some of the most severe body shame in the world. That’s not a bad thing for a community built on body freedom to get behind.
How you can help
Here’s how you can help Team Planet Nude make it count this year.
Donate. This is the most direct way to support the mission, and you don’t need to dip or send a photo to do it. A donation on our team fundraiser page puts you on the team, full stop. Every dollar goes to the Fistula Foundation. And as a thank-you, anyone who gives $100 or more gets a free one-year paid membership to Planet Nude. Just email me from the address you subscribe with to redeem.
Take a dip. On or around July 11, get naked and get in some water. A lake, the ocean, a river, a kiddie pool in the backyard, it all counts. Snap a photo or write up a quick reflection and send it to evan@planetnude.co, and we’ll feature it in our big post-event wrap-up.
Grab some merch. This year’s collection features a brand-new original design by the wonderful Zaftig Pink, on tanks, tees, stickers, mugs, and water bottles. And for the collectors out there, the original designs from 2024 and 2025 are still available too, so you can complete the set. 100% of the proceeds go to the Fistula Foundation. Plus, for every photo we receive of someone wearing this year’s merch while taking their dip, I’ll personally donate an extra $25 to our fundraiser.
Let’s make it our best year yet
We’re into the final week now, and I appreciate you bearing with all the noise this season. It's a short campaign for a worthy cause, and our community has proven what a small, joyful group can do when it decides to show up. Three years in, this is a tradition I'm proud of. Let's make it our best one yet.🪐