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Mustaches for Kids, a nonprofit organization that has benefited children’s charities since 1999, began its annual month-long mustache growing fundraiser November 4.
Participants began on “clean shave day” Nov. 4, checking in at Fox and Hound Sports Tavern in Mayfaire Town Center. Participants, known as “growers,” collect pledges to be donated to child-benefiting charities. Weekly check-ins are hosted at local establishments for progress photos, pledge turn-ins and networking opportunities.
Each year, more than 100 local men become  growers, raising an average of $40,000 to be redistributed.
“It’s amazing how many people from our community commit to this cause,” said Wilmington chapter president Ryan McInnis in a Oct. 27 press release. “It’s fun, it feels good and it really makes a difference when we deliver such big checks to our beneficiary organizations.”
The season ends with the ‘Stache Bash on December 5 at Banks Channel Grill, a celebration gala where growers are invited to arrive in costume. Awards of recognition are awarded and the pledge total is announced.
McInnis stated he anticipates this year’s collaboration between University of North Carolina Wilmington students and surrounding communities will make a positive difference in Mustaches for Kids’ fundraising efforts.
“Having two teams of UNCW’s Uni 101 students helping to organize, recruit, promote and administrate this year’s effort will make an incredible difference in our fundraising,” McInnis said. “Their energy and creativity have already resulted in a spike of social media and participant interest.”
The Wilmington chapter has raised more than$300,ooo during its 10-year existence for the local chapters of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Brigade Boys and Girls Club, DREAMS of Wilmington, Ocean Cure and the Hope from Helen Foundation.

 

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