IT'S EASY TO TAKE THE MUSTARD CHALLENGE

Anyone over 13 years old can take the Mustard Challenge. If you are sensitive to mustard, you can take the challenge with something else equally challenging. Have fun!

1. PREPARE: Choose your mustard, the spicier, the better. See Bravery Level meter for levels.Be ready to record your challenge using a phone or camera with video recording capabilities.

2. RECORD YOUR CHALLENGE:  Set up your phone/camera, and start recording.

   1. SAY “Hi, this is my mustard challenge to end childhood cancer. I'm taking the challenge and donating to raise funds for cancer research."

   2. EAT (or SMEAR, THROW, SQUIRT, ETC.) a big spoonful of mustard. We suggest you have crackers or water nearby!

   3. SAY "I challenge friends A, B, C and D to do the challenge and make a donation at mustardchallenge.com."

3. DONATE any amount to fund childhood cancer research. Stand Up To Cancer will match your donation $1 for $1, up to a total of $6 million!

4. SHARE and GO VIRAL: POST the video to your Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter account. Tag the people you nominated (using the @ symbol) and add the hashtag #MustardChallenge and website mustardchallenge.com to encourage donation

LATEST BUZZ

Change the facts and stand up for kids

100% of your donation helps discover safer, less toxic, and effective treatments for kids with cancer.

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?

All (100%) of the money raised from The Mustard Challenge will fund groundbreaking research that leverages the latest understanding in cancer biology to bring safer, less toxic and more effective treatments for children with cancer. The research we fund will help children with cancer — and the doctors and researchers working to save them — who urgently need alternatives to the 50s-era, inhumane, side-effect-laden standard treatments used today. 

We will actively seek to support high-potential early stage clinical trials (phase 0, phase I, phase II) or other clinical research (e.g. biomarker development, new imaging tools, etc.) targeting pediatric cancer. The projects can be one or a combination of the following: kick-starter grants between $100,000-$250,000; clinical trials between $250,000 - $1,000,000 or grants to early-career physician-scientists with novel ideas to cure childhood cancer averaging $100,000 - $250,000 per year; and larger grants which have the possibility to accelerate cures for a type of pediatric cancer, including another Dream Team.

IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER

Participating in the Mustard Challenge is at your own election. If you have a sensitivity to mustard – please use something else or donate! Also, when you set your social media status to "public" and post your video, anyone on the web can see your post. When you post, you permit us to display your post on our website. Finally, if you are under 13, please do not participate in the challenge, but feel free to ask your parents to do so!

SPECIAL THANKS

The Mustard Challenge team consists of volunteers who came together to make a difference. We want to thank the following individuals and organizations for their time, ideas and help:

Ballard Spahr with special thanks to Odia Kagan and Lynn Rzonca