Impact Report 2024

Positively Impacting Children’s Lives

For over 43 years, Wigs For Kids, Inc. has been positively impacting children’s lives by providing hair replacement systems, products, and encouragement at no cost to the families.

The children we serve have medical-related hair loss due to illnesses such as alopecia, cancer, trichotillomania, burns, lupus, and other medical conditions.

Causes of hair loss in our recipients we served

Hair Donors Generously Give Of Themselves

Each hair replacement system requires 25 – 30 qualified ponytail donations, and the costs of the process and production of the hairpieces are over $2,000 at this time. Our recipients receive the gift of products with each hairpiece that is provided. For some of our recipients that means a hairpiece from age 5 to age 18.

The chart below demonstrates the various lengths of ponytails donated in 2024.

Minimum hair donation requirements demonstrate the commitment and generosity of donors. The required minimum length is 12″ (14″ is preferred), hair cannot be colored or chemically treated.

Wigs For Kids has a network of hair stylists throughout the U.S. and Canada who cut donors’ hair.

Stylists At The Heart of Our Work

Wigs For Kids relies on the time, talent, and expertise of hair stylists throughout the U.S. and Canada to work with our recipients and cut donors hair. The map to the right shows the number of new hair stylists that have enrolled in the Certified Service Provider program in 2024. Currently, there are 550 Certified Service Providers serving children.

We are proud of our relationships with so many professional stylist volunteers that are helping our children with measurements, selection of hair color, and styling.

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Wigs For Kids has a network of over 1,200 hair stylists that cut donors’ hair. They are integral in the process of assuring that the hair meets all of the donation requirements.

The map to the left shows the number of new hair stylists that have enrolled in the Hair Donation Specialist program in 2024.

We are grateful for the professional volunteer stylists that assist our hair donors with providing quality ponytails that are over 12″ in length, free of chemicals, and dry when shipped to us.

Individuals Support Our Work With Fundraisers

Individuals Support Our Work With Fundraisers

Wigs For Kids relies on the generosity and time of individuals to donate financial gifts or host fundraisers. The money generated allows us to continue to serve the hundreds of children in need. With the number of requests increasing our financial needs are also increasing.

*Program Costs include: production of the hairpieces (each hairpiece costs a minimum of $2000), shipping, hair care products to maintain the hairpieces, support services to the families, collection and sorting of donated hair, oversight of national network of hair stylists, staffing.

Fundraisers are all types and sizes depending on the team that creates them. Over $80,000 was raised through events that were hosted by individuals, schools, businesses and community organizations. Each was critical to our success!

Cut-A-Thons Are Inspirational & Fun!

Hair Stylists and individuals host Cut-A-Thons benefiting Wigs For Kids. These are both inspirational and fun, as hair donors are giving a part of themselves with pride, joy, and celebration.

2024 Cut-A-Thons Were Hosted In The Following Locations:

Columbus, OH – BuckeyeThon
Bala Cynwryd, PA – Hairs To You Cut-A-Thon
Beachwood, OH – Family Kindness Festival
Philadelphia, PA – Kathy’s Cuts
Riverside, CA – Childhood Cancer Foundation of Southern California Fundraiser and Cut-A-Thon
Jacksonville, FL – Ramona’s Flea Market
Los Osos, CA- Hair Heart Project
Gillette, WY – Believe the Promise Cut-A-Thon
Brunswick, OH – A Hair Raising Experience
Silver Springs, FL- Annual Wigs For Kids Cut-A-Thon and Fundraiser
Bronx, NY – Riverdale Cut-A-Thon and Fundraiser
Manalapan, NJ – Share Your Hair Share Your Heart

Peer-To-Peer Fundraising Making An Impact

Wigs For Kids makes Peer-To-Peer fundraising easy, rewarding, and fun.

Simply create a personalized page through our special platform, set a goal, share our story, and reach out to friends, family, and co-workers. All donations go directly to Wigs For Kids.

Hair donors will often choose to create a Peer-To-Peer fundraising campaign to further maximize their donation.

We are grateful to those that used Peer-to-Peer in 2024. The themes were a wide variety. We had entertainment activities, athletic groups, and our stylists hosting campaigns.

**OSU Wigs For Kids – Annual Bar Crawl**

Board of Directors

Annie Calcei
Matthew Case – Ascendant Logic
Gary Ebert – Seeley, Savidge, Ebert & Gourash Co, L.P.A.
Frank Fulco – America’s Beauty Show
Jim Gebbie – Midwest Direct
Thomas Greiner – Executive Director
Emmanuel Mroczka – Jeffrey Paul’s Hair & Scalp Specialists
Jeffrey Paul – Jeffrey Paul’s Hair & Scalp Specialists
Zina Paul – Jeffrey Paul’s Hair and Scalp Specialists

About Wigs For Kids

Wigs For Kids is a nonprofit organization that helps children experiencing hair loss stemming from chemotherapy, radiation therapy, alopecia, trichotillomania, burns, and other medical causes. Stylists and regular people just like you work together to give recipients the self-esteem and self-image they deserve.

24231 Center Ridge Road Westlake, OH 44145