Calling All Mustache Growers!

The Portland chapter of Mustaches for Kids (M4K PDX) is gearing up to launch its second year of raucous facial hair growth for charity! We're holding our official Info Session on Thursday, November 6 at 7:00pm at Vendetta (4306 N Williams Ave). Come by to catch up with last year's Growers, get important mustache updates from your chapter organizers, ask questions about the upcoming Growing Season…and drink beer. Oh yeah, and bring your friends. The kids need them.

The Vitals: M4K is a volunteer-run organization that does good and has fun by growing mustaches for children's charities. Really. From mid-November to mid-December M4K PDX Growers will cultivate sweet mustaches and solicit pledges from friends, family, coworkers, and community members. Kind of like getting pledges to run a marathon – without the exertion, cramping, or dehydration. Call it a facial hair marathon.

During the month-long Growing Season, we'll meet at local bars on a weekly basis to check in, compare progress, and inspire donations from envious and awe-struck onlookers. This year we are pleased to be partnered with DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit organization that funds projects at underserved public schools right here in Oregon!

Here's how it works: you grow a mustache, your sponsors donate money to projects that move them, and underprivileged kids get the learning resources they need! To top it all off, the Growing Season will culminate with the 'Stache Bash – a cross between a dance party, beauty pageant, dog show, and police line-up that will culminate with the crowning of Portland's Sweetest 'Stache.

Everybody wins when you grow a mustache for charity.

So be sure to come to the Info Session to see if you have what it takes to compete for Portland's Sweetest 'Stache and raise money for the kids! What better excuse to grow a furry new friend on your upper lip?
'Stachely Yours,

Chrissy & Sarah, M4K PDX Chapter Organizers

Contact: m4kpdx@gmail.com
Check out the M4K PDX site for updates: http://portland.mustachesforkids.org
DonorsChoose: www.donorschoose.org
Mustaches for Kids Main Site: www.mustachesforkids.org


Calendar of Events for 2008 M4K PDX Growing Season (7pm unless otherwise noted):

* November 6: Info Session at :Vendetta, 4306 N Williams Ave
* November 13: Clean Shave Day at Bishops Salon, 1011 NW Everett, 7:30pm
* November 20: Checkpoint 1 at East Burn, 1800 E. Burnside
* November 27: Thanksgiving day- We will not be meeting this week, but it is a good day to solicit donations from whomever you share dinner with.
* December 4: Checkpoint 2 at American Cowgirls, 500 NE M L King Blvd
* December 11: Checkpoint 3 at Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave
* December 18: 'Stache Bash at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison (time TBA)