About Mustaches for Kids DC

Mustaches for Kids, D.C. is part of the national Mustaches for Kids organization, a volunteer-run charity started in Los Angeles in 1999 to help the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to granting the wishes of children with terminal or life-threatening illnesses.

Each year, participants (”Growers”) raise money by growing sweet, sweet Mustaches between Thanksgiving and Christmas. They shave their faces, except for the Mustache, a minimum of one time per week. The Growers solicit donations from friends, family, co-workers, and people in the community. At the end of the Growing Season, Mustaches for Kids, D.C. hosts a ‘Stache Bash where the facial hair is evaluated by an independent panel of judges, and one Mustache is declared to be the “Sweetest.”

Over the past ten years, Mustaches for Kids has spread across the country, a steady expansion that is not unlike the measured, deliberate growth of a Mustache. Mustaches for Kids has enjoyed the efforts of an impressive number of Growers who, collectively, have raised over $100,000 for various children’s charities across the USA and Canada.

About the Children’s National Medical Center

Since 2006, Mustaches for Kids, D.C. has asked Growers to step up to the ’stache and help raise money for the Children’s National Medical Center here in the District (read Children’s National’s at-a-glance info sheet here).

All proceeds go towards Children’s National’s Kids Care Fund. The Kids Care Fund responds to the basic needs of childrens’ healthcare; it is vital to daily operations of the hospital and goes to support programs such as: new discoveries in research, special facilities, unique therapies (including art therapy, child-life specialists, and social works), and other special programs. Whether it’s life-saving medicines or Looney Tunes pajamas, the Kids Care Fund allows Children’s National to do what it does best: making kids better.

The Kids Care Fund is a vital part of Children’s National’s mission of providing world-class care to all patients. Last year alone CNMC provided over $57 million of uncompensated medicine for children who were unable to pay for their healthcare. Thus, donors like M4K are an important and vital part of keeping Children’s National’s doors open to all patients… regardless of their ability to pay.