Our Mission:
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M4K Richmond improves the quality of life for local children through individual fundraising, partnering with local charities and businesses, and having a little bit of fun with facial hair. |
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M4K Richmond, Inc. is a volunteer-run organization that was founded in 2003 with the goal of raising money for local children’s charities while having fun growing mustaches. Inspired by the National Mustaches for Kids chapters in California and NYC, two Richmond-area philanthropic geniuses took a leap of faith and grew their first mustache. After being spiritually and piously enlightened by the magic of 1) having a mustache and 2) helping children’s charities; the pair began their annual campaign to relentlessly recruit Growers and brand the M4K Richmond organization. In the beginning there was a small group of less than 10 Growers with limited mustache growing potential. Membership has grown each year with over 200 Growers sporting sweet mustaches during this past growing session. In 2010 M4K Richmond was incorporated and received recognition as an official 501(c)3 non profit public charity by the IRS. Through the years, M4K Richmond has enlisted the efforts of thousands of brave Growers who collectively have raised over $2,300,000 for Richmond based children’s charities such as The Children's Hospital Foundation, Greater Richmond SCAN, The ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation, Feedmore, and more.
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M4K Richmond
2020 Board of Directors
Chair - Mike Jackson
Vice Chair - Graham Lloyd
Treasurer - Tommy Johnstone
Secretary - Hunter Marshall
Member at Large - Pete Augusterfer
Member at Large - Ben Keefer Member at Large - Mike Keogh Member at Large - Brian Berkey Member at Large - Kurt Williams Member at Large - Willie Jones Member at Large - Scott Armstrong Board of Trustees
Aaron Breed
John Waters Dave Hogan Scott O'Connell Steve Quattlebaum |
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Here's how it works: Each year, during the four-week Growing Season spanning November and December, 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, the Growers hold a Mustache Competition called the 'Stache Bash, 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 and allow their facial hair to be evaluated by an independent panel of judges, and one Mustache is declared to be the "Sweetest.." |
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Sweetest 'Stache Award Winners 2008 - John "The Wolf" Waters 2009 - Aaron "Dusty" Breed 2010 - Justin Fournier 2011 - Ben "Keefernandez" Keefer 2012 - Steve "Huckleberry" Quattlebaum 2013 - Mike "Finkle" Keogh 2014 - Mike Jackson 2015 - Tommy "Goose" Johnstone 2016 - Pete Augusterfer 2017 - Isaac Wright, Daniel Jones, Graham Lloyd 2018 - Kurt "Woody" Williams 2019 - Hunter "Wiggler" Marshall 2020 - Tyler "The Rock" Cox |
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Goose Award Winners 2011 - Tommy "Goose" Johnstone 2012 - Tommy "Goose" Johnstone 2013 - Tommy "Goose" Johnstone 2014 - Tommy "Goose" Johnstone 2015 - Daniel Jones & Isaac Wright 2016 - Mike Keogh 2017 - Mike Keogh 2018 - Scott Armstrong 2019 - Ben Keefer 2020 - Tommy "Goose" Johnstone |
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Wolf Award Winners 2012 - Bill Rider & Mike Jackson 2013 - Dr. Tim Bunchman & Hunter Marshall 2014 - Jeff Smidler 2015 - Brian Berkey 2016 - Brian Berkey 2017 - Brian Johnston 2018 - Tyler Cox & Isaac Wright 2019 - Jeff Lighthiser 2020 - Scott Armstrong & Graham Lloyd |
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Rookie of the Year 2012 - Matt Dira & Heath Hyman 2013 - Matt Bitsko & Jeff Turcotte 2014 - Dale Smith & Craig Toalson 2015 - Tim Parent 2016 - Kurt Williams & Graham Lloyd 2017 - Steve Booth & Brian Ely 2018 - Andy Little & Tood Sumser 2019 - Michael Whaley & Frank Martino 2020 - Emmanuel Hansen & Travis Nida |
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