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Mustaches for Kids is a chapter-based organization which recruits volunteers to grow mustaches for a 4-week period of time in order to raise money for local children's causes. The mustache is used as an attention-getter and conversation starter to solicit donations. Each Mustaches for Kids chapter is volunteer-run and operates autonomously under a generally accepted set of guidelines set by national organizers. As such, each chapter independently selects a children-focused cause of its choosing as well as sets its own 4-week period for mustache growing.

The signature event of Mustaches for Kids is "Stache Bash", a party-like event held by each chapter to celebrate the end of their mustache "growing season". The centerpiece of Stache Bash is the "Sweetest Stache Competition", a mock beauty pageant crowning the chapter's 'Sweetest Stache' based on a set of locally defined criteria.

Origins
Mustaches for Kids began in 1999 in Los Angeles as a bet between friends to see who could grow a better mustache, the loser donating money to the Make-a-Wish Foundation. The next year the founders were no longer involved, but through word of mouth and e-mail, the concept spread to San Francisco and New York, with volunteers accepting pledges to grow mustaches from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Since then, Mustaches for Kids chapters have been established in cities throughout the United States and Canada.

Chapters
Unlike Movember, an organization with a similar mustache-for-charity concept and central planning, Mustaches for Kids has 30 to 40 relatively autonomous chapters; each chooses which month to grow their mustaches in (many choose November) and takes responsibility for collecting and distributing funds raised. A full list of chapters can be found at the official Mustaches for Kids website.