In 2009, Hoax Couture designers and real-life couple, Chris Tyrell and Jim Searle, founded Dare to Wear Love, a Toronto fashion event that raises funds and awareness for the Stephen Lewis Foundation and its fight to turn the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa.

We’re really excited here at 2 for Life Media because we’re on a mission to make a difference — and we believe we can do that through what we call “Power of 2.”

Show your love this Valentine’s Day by joining the Dare to Wear Love Challenge. Canadians are invited to wear clothing and accessories made by Canadians (DIY creations count, too!) from February 14 to 21 to help raise funds and awareness for Dare To Wear Love and The Stephen Lewis Foundation.

After volunteering with the Peace Corp in Mali, Harvard graduate students Mike and Marisa Conway wanted to do more to help the communities they visited. In 2012, the couple quit their jobs in Washington, D.C. and began A Place in the Sun Foundation, a nonprofit that brings education and literacy to kids in Mali.

In January 2013, newlyweds Monika Platek and Todd Cooney launched The Power of 52, their one-year mission to spread goodwill and to have an epic first year of marriage.

On April 28, Anastasia King-Jaress and her husband, JC Jaress, will leave their airy, three-bedroom house in the foothills of Los Angeles and move into a 24′ motor home (nicknamed “The Schwartz” after the movie Spaceballs), on a one-year expedition to visit eco-villages and organic farms across the U.S. to learn about sustainability.

Planning one wedding is plenty enough for most couples, but not for Alex Pelling and Lisa Grant of Manchester, England. The globe-trotting twosome plan to tie the knot in every country they visit over a three-year period — and all for a good cause.

What’s better than a cute couple? A cute, philanthropic couple! Meet Rex Eng and Josee Jodin, the Toronto couple who volunteered to do the branding and graphics for this year’s Dare to Wear Love campaign through their design and communications firm, Public Good. Along with donating their time and talent, the couple also participated in […]

If you’re like most betrothed couples, you and your fiance(e) shacked up before you were engaged. Which means you probably already have a toaster and measuring cups and egg beaters. While most couples are sticking with traditional gift registries, some affianced duos, their kitchens fully stocked, are opting for honeymoon or charity registries.