OMAHA, Nebraska, June 4th, 2022 - Last Saturday night at its annual Stache Bash, Mustaches for Kids Omaha announced a staggering 30-day grand total of $1,004,683 raised for local Omaha children’s charities, raising the most money of any Mustaches for Kids chapter in the nation for the 11th straight year. This brings M4K Omaha’s total raised to $5,758,338 over its 14-year history. Each May, M4K Omaha assembles a group of fun loving guys who want to help kids and look good doing it. The rules are simple: grow nothing but a mustache for 30 days and do whatever you can to collect donations for the chosen charity partners. Growers who raise at least $1,000 are inducted into the highly exclusive Selleck Society. Growers meet for weekly checkpoints, compete in the Mustache Melee, and host their own events or perform their own stunts to raise money.

This year, the funds raised by M4K Omaha’s 240 growers went to support Kids Can Community Center and Child Saving Institute, while also gifting $100,000 to its “bonus charities,” Foster Love, Nebraska Red Dawgs, and Imagine Inclusion.

M4K Omaha cranked up the sexy and blew the doors off the Slowdown while announcing another mustache fundraising world record. The evening culminated in the bestowing of the Stachey Awards, the most prestigious and significant mustache-themed charity awards worldwide. The awards range from Nastiest Stache to Most Testosterone, but the most coveted award of the night went to M4K Omaha’s new Sweetest Stache, Jeff Hardy. “Yeah, it’s funny and everything but helping kids is really just a small thing. The real rewarding part is this huge trophy.” said Hardy. The honor of Most Fundraisingest went to Brian Moore for his astounding total of $53,657 raised, while the first-ever Most Fundraisinger award went to second place finisher, Cory Lesley, who individually raised a $53,117.

About Mustaches for Kids Omaha

Mustaches for Kids Omaha is the local chapter of Mustaches for Kids America, a volunteer-run organization started in Los Angeles in 1999 to do good and have fun by growing Mustaches for children’s charities. Founded in 2009, M4K Omaha has partnered with Camp CoHoLo (Children’s Cancer Camp of Nebraska), Nebraska Children’s Home Society, Children’s Respite Care Center, Make-A-Wish Nebraska, HETRA (Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy), Ted E. Bear Hollow, Youth Emergency Services, Ronald McDonald House, Special Olympics Nebraska, Angels Among Us, the “M4K8,” Northstar Foundation, inCOMMON Community Development, Kids Can Community Center, and Child Saving Institute. M4K Omaha has raised over $5,700,000 in its first 14 years. Yes, that is million with an M.

About Child Saving Institute

Child Saving Institute (CSI) is dedicated to the prevention, intervention and healing of child abuse, neglect and trauma. For 130 years, CSI has been “Responding to the cry of a child” and meeting the changing needs of metro area children. CSI serves approximately 2,500 children and families each year. To learn more about CSI and the programs and services offered, please visit www.childsaving.org or follow CSI on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About Kids Can

At Kids Can Community Center, our mission is to educate, engage, and inspire children through early childhood education and out of school experiences. Originally founded in 1908 as Social Settlement Association, the organization has evolved over the past century to meet the continually changing needs of children and families in the community. For more information, visit www.KidsCan.org.

For more information, visit m4komaha.com. For interviews, photos, and bacon, contact George Svagera at george@m4komaha.com or 402-208-9480.