How It Works

Here's how it works: Each year, during the four-week Growing Season beginning November 13th, Growers sprout sweet, sweet Mustaches. Per Mustaches for Kids bylaws, they shave their faces, except for the Mustache, a minimum of one time per week and solicit donations from friends, family, co-workers, and people in the community. Kind of like getting pledges to run a marathon. Without the exertion, cramping, or dehydration. Call it a facial hair marathon.

At the end of the Growing Season, each Mustaches for Kids chapter hosts a Mustache Competition, which is a cross between a beauty pageant, dog show, and police line up. During the Competition, Growers, often in Mustache-enhancing costumes, are put through a test of mind, body, and Mustache. They allow their facial hair to be evaluated by an independent panel of judges, and one Mustache is declared to be the "Sweetest."

So it's all pretty simple: mustache, charity, competition infused with meaningless pageantry. You can spare four weeks of your life for that.

In the words of our founders, "grow with us."