About Mustaches for Kids
This winter in Chicago, principled blokes - as official Mustaches for Kids Growers - will adorn the city with a collective, unapologetically mustachioed face. Whilst an unruly subset of the city’s population is certain to accuse the outfit of compromising themselves…their faces, their relationships, their careers…Growers, dignity intact, will celebrate the Mustache - for the benefit of a venerable Chicago institution.
Chicago’s Mustaches for Kids community will collect pledges and secure donations for Chicago’s oldest boys and girls club: Off the Street Club.
Conceptually, Mustaches for Kids functions much like that read-a-thon you did in grade school. Except, there’s no reading requirement…and you’re growing a mustache. OK - not exactly the same, but you get the idea.
Growers will collect pledges from friends, neighours, colleagues, distant-relatives, acquaintances, passers-by, local merchants, Hobbitses, and bus drivers. As Mustache Sponsors, this generous lot will not only play a pivotal role each Grower’s endurance, but also share a spot in the benevolent shade of a Mustache well grown.
PLEASE NOTE: The Official Mustaches for Kids Mustache is limited to stately corner-to-corner growth. You know, the timeless Magnum P.I. style - preferred by motorcycle cops, adopted by uncles, and endorsed by little league coaches the world over. Beards, goatees, fu-manchus, soul patches, stingers, and other redeeming facial hair are strictly prohibited. See Rules for more detail.
Growing season begins Monday, November 19th, 2007. In the wake of the Shaving Day Kick-Off Celebration, the Mustaches for Kids community will observe four brilliant weeks of sweet, sweet for-the-children Mustache cultivation. Growers are encouraged to grow at their own paces.
The Mustaches for Kids community (Growers and Sponsors) are urged to swarm Weekly Mustache Checkpoints. A good time for all, these Monday night gatherings offer non-growing participants a behind-the-scenes look at simple mustachioed idealism - and, perhaps, the occasional hug. Meanwhile, weekly meetings provide Growers with a comfortable platform for the exchange of moral support and assorted you-won’t-believe-what-my-mustache-saw-today hilarity.
The close of growing season is marked by ‘Stache Bash 2007. At this point, the Mustaches for Kids community will, with much fanfare, select Chicago’s “Sweetest ‘Stache” – thus, recognizing the Abe Froman of Mustache.
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In its inaugural 2006 campaign, Chicago’s Mustaches for Kids community raised over $13,000 for Off the Street Club. Now entering its second year, we plan on really sinking our newly grown baby teeth in to not only fun-raising but fund-raising all while celebrating the contributions of both Growers and Sponsors. But, especially Growers - a varied batch of principled men, slighting the burden of taking themselves too seriously, and surrendering to any combination of three profoundly human impulses:
- Growing Mustaches
- Soliciting Donations
- Concerning Themselves with the Welfare of Chicago Youth
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Mustaches for Kids is an international volunteer-run, Mustache-growing Children’s Charity. In eight fulfilling years, the Mustaches for Kids proposition has enjoyed steady expansion throughout the US and Canada - continental progress not unlike the measured, deliberate growth of a Mustache. In that time, Mustaches for Kids, owing to the efforts of an impressive community of Growers, has raised over $150,000 for various children’s charities.