Goodie Two Sleeves Donate 100% Profits To Japan

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You’ve probably seen the terrifying ordeal that the Japanese people are going through since the earthquake which hit 8.9 on the Richter scale and causes an enormous Tsunami which spread at its furthest point to almost 10,000 miles awy. In response to the disaster all of the proceeds that Goodie Two Sleeves make during March through their online store will be donated to the victims of the quake in Japan through an as of yet unnamed organization (probably the Red Cross, depending on the efficacy of each charity’s program for the area).

They’ll still hold all of their sales as scheduled, but ultimately if there is a surge in volume they can potentially donate a great deal to the cause. So think carefully, if you’re in the mood for a new tee and want to help the people of Japan, now is probably the best time to do it…

Graaiins Tee

Cute zombie fun for $21.95 for girls in sizes S-XL.

Captain Awesome Tee

You don’t need anyone to tell you that, although advertising the fact is never a bad thing :p $21.95 for girls in sizes S-XL.

Anerdica Tee

Be nice to the nerds, you might end up working for them one day Sizes S-Xl, girls $21.95 and guys $18.95.

See plenty more great tees and even help save a few human lives here.

CityStache Tees – Support Prostate Cancer

admin    Charity T-Shirts     Charity T-Shirts, CityStache, charitees, charity tees, prostate cancer

I always admire charitable t-shirt brands for their work in helping to promote and fund good causes, but man, have CityStache got their finger on the pulse when it comes to branding and marketing. No offence to most charitees out there but to be honest most are rather dour and worthy when it comes to product design. Sure they have to get the message across but most people don’t want to wear charity logos or pictures of dying kids and war when it comes to a t-shirt for a casual day out.

“Hey are you going to the beach?” “Yeah, are you going to a fund-raiser?” “No.”

Since the heights of philanthropism in the boom years the bust years have definitely seen charity burnout take effect. That’s why charitable causes such as CityStache are rethinking the whole charitee model, first off their site is super slick and yet still a lot of fun. And if anyone needs cheering up its sufferers of cancer, no matter what kind. What’s more CityStache are aiming for an optimistic target of 10,000 tees rather than a ridiculous one that past charity t-shirt launches have claimed, one of which wanted to sell a million.

I really like the tees too, there’s nothing depressing about the design (which is a great relief), available for both guys and girls in a range of sizes at $30 each (hey it’s for charity after all) in white. It’s actually rather beautifully drawn in an old school lino-cut style (I’m guessing with vector graphics). Probably one of the coolest light-hearted charitees I have seen in a while!

My Hairy Moustache Tee

CityStache’s scoreboard is looking a little unspectacular right now with the top city going to San Diego with 23 tees sold this week. Still let’s hope with a little help from a few bloggers (including myself) we can get this thing on the road. It’s a global event so everyone out there, no matter where you live, can help CityStache attain its target, or at least work towards it.

The sobering fact is that the charities with the most capital advertise the most and hook up with high street retail tie-ins. CityStache might not have the budget but they could still tie in with all sorts of brands, I’m thinking Gillette, Lynx, Nike, anything that might have a target male audience. Of course everyone has to deal with the PR department, but if they can be convinced of the benefits to their clients at least one of the many 100s of big agencies out there will give in… eventually. Radio might seem a dated medium but a lot of older people still listen to it in their daily grind, just one piece on a station like Radio 4 or World Service (in the UK) or equivalent in other countries would wake up the magazine/newspaper market. If enough people buy the tees then it’s time for events, everyone wearing moustaches spontaneously leaping into choreographed routines en masse in cities around the world (hey they did it for a mobile phone ad here in the UK). Who knows, I’m sure they’re brimming with ideas at CityStache.

If you fancy helping a great cause get started by visiting their site at www.CityStache.com.

Dear Hunter Tee

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Here’s a charity t-shirt label with a difference, Arm The Animals are all about animal rights, protection and care, they work with and donate profits to many established charities in the field, the difference is you won’t find any sentimental trite printed on their tees, ATA have gone hardcore in your face in an all out war on animal cruelty. There’s one shirt in their collection that really jumps out at me and that’s Dear Hunter…

Dear Hunter Tee

A great concept, I’d love to see this design as a street art mural to be honest, now that would be an exciting viral campaign, even a few stickers would draw in attention around N.Y.C, L.A., London, Paris, Berlin… (for starters). You can get this tee in black and grey (guys) for $21 in sizes S-XL and a baby-doll tee in white for girls here. You can get 10% off this tee or any alternative available at Arm The Animals by using our exclusive discount code ATA10 at the checkout.

Here’s Arm The Animals mission statement: The mission? Simple: Create killer T-Shirts and raise money for cash-strapped animal care organizations! We can’t save every abused, unloved or unwanted animal, but we can save some! We are dedicated to making witty, high quality designs that truly MAKE A STATEMENT, raise awareness and generate funds for animal care organizations in need of assistance.

We’re not here to preach, we’re simply doing what we are capable of to try and help a horrible situation… 4,000,000 – 5,000,000 animals are euthanized every year because people simply don’t do the basics for their pets. It really isn’t an option to spay, neuter, feed, water and love your pets – it’s a requirement! If you make the choice to own an animal, at least have the heart to make sure they are healthy and cared for – pretty simple, right?

A great cause that seriously deserves all our attention. ATA donate 15% of net proceeds to a number of different rescues/shelters.  They will initially be sending donations to the “Good Dog Animal Rescue” based in Venice Beach and “Strangest Angels” in Los Angeles.  However they are also getting set up with the SPCA, but feel that  smaller rescues are much more in need of assistance at this point. If you fancy this tee or any of their others visit www.armtheanimals.com.

Eco Eye-Candy From OMUNKY

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OMUNKY are a happy-go-lucky t-shirt brand offering up a unique line in super cute environmentally themed apparel, they’ve both a strong in-house graphic style and all their tees are printed on 100% Organic-cotton or Recycled-cotton and 5% of all profits go to WildAid. OMUNKY is a one man brand, everything from the design to print to completion of orders (promptly mind you) is handled by Rick Waters, a man with a passion for the environment and a savvy mind who understands exactly how the public can and do suffer from “eco fatigue”. However much you might think you care about good causes it’s fair to say that from time-to-time you’ll get a little tired of being kept “on message”, after all it may be the end of the world, but if we all slump in a heap now and get depressed about it it won’t do much good. (Actually that might help if we did – at least we’d use less oil and gas.)

Rick wants to inject a little humour back into the environmental fold, his bright and colourful graphics definitely help to keep things in perspective. After all, asides the doom and gloom, the planet’s worth saving because it’s a great place to be, even on the most selfish level that makes sense, I know we’re not masters of the universe, or even a piddling solar system, but if we were we’d realise just how much fun it is to live on a planet with such diversity of wildlife, animals, birds, and yes, even people.The Earth is still a fun place to be, even now with all the devastation we have collectively caused, there is still a massive variety of wildlife, beautiful and exciting mountains, oceans, forests, you name it, OMUNKY wants to celebrate that fact, and their enthusiasm is infectious. So next time you harp on at someone about saving the planet, wear one of these before blasting off another eco lecture, or at the very least, do it with a smile!

Spots & Shades Tee

This is the latest tee design from OMUNKY and definitely one of the best, Rick really puts himself under pressure to keep producing a new shirt concept every month, I think he’s being a little hard on himself. I’d stick to collections, and I’d definitely focus on large friendly graphic shirts like this one. It really stands out at the store, then again a giraffe wearing shades wouldn’t exactly blend in with the background wherever he was. This should be a hit with the kids too, I I was Rick I’d be looking for licensing and distribution for work like this. Superb organic tees available in a wide range of sizes for men, women and kids at a competitive of $22 each. 5% of every sale goes to WildAid.

Tiger Turmoil Tee

This is definitely my fave shirt at OMUNKY, I don’t normally succumb to cute, but this one is the bee’s knees, or in this case tiger’s nose. Almost like a still from an old Disney toon, there’s something incredibly nostalgic about the Tiger Turmoil t-shirt. Maybe it’s the subtle range of hues, or the way the tiger’s face peers out from the dark. Superb organic tees available in a wide range of sizes for men, women and kids at a competitive of $22 each. 5% of every sale goes to WildAid.

I’d love to see a lot more “comic character” shirts like these two at OMUNKY in the future, they really could catch on in a big way. Keep up to date with all the latest eco-friendly shirts at www.omunky.com!

Farofa Nation Charity Tees

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Farofa Nation is a design and T-Shirt company dedicated to helping the poor and unfortunate kids of Brazil. In 2007 designers Serge Castagna and Ana Testa Castagna founded Farofa Nation, the couple first met in 1998, Serge was born in Switzerland and raised in the States and it was a few years before Ana brought him to her home town in Rio. It was there that Serge witnessed true poverty for the first time first-hand and from then on both were  determined to help the abandoned street children of Brazil in anyway they could.

The name Farofa Nation comes from  a popular dish in Brazil called a ‘farofa’ which is a manoic flour usually in a mix of salted and smoked meats, olives eggs and spices, however the term also means ‘eclectic blend’ in Brazilian culture,  which is the design ethos behind the label. To produce their inimitable tees they procure the talents of some very interesting designers and artists including Brazilian artist/art director Jamie Tao, hilarious artist Luis Aguilera, and Miami artist Juan Patino.

If you’re looking for something a little different and would like to help the abandoned street kids of Brasil in some small way, check these out:

The Mind of Tao T-Shirt

A lovely hand-drawn tee for the girls, it almost looks like a moleskine sketch torn from the book, rather hypnotic in its own way. Perfectly fitting for the ‘eclectic’ theme for Farofa Nation, you can buy The Mind of Tao tee for $26 (only small sizes left!).

Royal Monster T-Shirt

Designed by Luis Aguilera, if you’re a fan of cute monster toons then this must be the king of them all. Funny, irreverant and rather hilarious the Royal Monster tee is available for $26 in sizes S/M.

Abduction T-Shirt

Most definitely my favourite of the lot, the Abduction tee features those pesky greys sizing up yet another cow to slice up for what I can only guess is an off-world gene bank to re-introduce life to the planet when we humans have screwed everything up beyond repair. Still, enough of the conspiracy theories, get this ultra cool shirt for $26 in sizes S/M.

See the rest of Farofa Nation’s quirky t-shirt collection at www.farofanation.com and maybe help a few kids in Brazil improve their lives at the same time.

The Wisdom of StupidHurts.me

admin    T-Shirt News     Charity T-Shirts, Kiva, Stupid Hurts, charitable t-shirts, charity tees, micro banking, micro credit

Now before I get any complaints I won’t be featuring any t-shirts in this post once you read what I have to say I’m sure that you’ll all be most understanding. StupidHurts.me is a new t-shirt site with a difference, this brand new brand is still in beta and so I can’t show you what they’re offering right now, but I will give you a clear idea of their aims and objectives.

StupidHurts.me have developed a revolutionary way of offering an alternative to charitable donations to the most deserving across the world, not only have they opened their doors to budding t-shirt designers on the net, but they’re offering $1 to each artist and $2 to the micro credit organisation Kiva.org on every sale of every winning tee. So for all you t-shirt designers out there, old and new, come and help the world by submitting your own designs here.

If you’re not sure what micro credit is, well let me just spout my personal opinion for a moment here, it’s a system that will most likely save the world one day, or at least provide a real safety net for billions of people living in capitalist democracies across the world. What much of the West forgets is that charity alone will not provide all the solutions, or at least not effectively in the long term, to help the poor and needy around the world. It might buy them some food, or help them grow it, or a pump for a regular water supply, or even clothes and shelter, but what it doesn’t do is deal with the underlying problem of poverty and inequality.

This is a two way street by the way, imagine if an African bank or an Indian corporation had the wealth to buy out failing banks and companies in Europe or America, imagine if there was far more trade across the world, a higher income for every inhabitant of the planet, a thriving geo-global investment market that could self-repair from the ground up. Well with micro credit and micro banking it might just happen. Lending to the poor never made so much sense. Businesses start small, all businesses, relatively speaking, have to start from scratch. If I’d had the funding a few years ago to set up my own t-shirt label, I’d most likely be employing staff by now, who would be paying their taxes, buying products, paying bills and generally contributing to the world economy. Yet I am from a relatively wealthy Western nation.

Try and imagine the same predicament for a farmer, engineer, merchant, artisan, or in fact anyone of any skill in the poorest regions of the world. It’s even more difficult getting a business off the ground when one has to worry about how to feed one’s children, or repair the roof of a home many in the West would consider squalid. The fact is that in the poorest countries, the most infitessimal amount of finance can change a region from a 3rd World to a 2nd World economy within decades, the trickle-down theory actually can work, given the right circumstances, an appropriate vision, and patience. Micro credit has proven that.

Read more about how Stupid Hurts t-shirts might just help save the world by contributing to Kiva here. Sign up for Stupid Hurts’ newsletter and get previews of their latest t-shirt submissions (when available) here. Stupid Hurts, not so stupid after all.

Some Comic Relief From Wornby

admin    T-Shirt News     Comic Relief, Gorilla in Manilla, Muhammed Ali, Red Nose Day, Wornby t-shirts, charitable t-shirts, charity tees

Life eh? You’ve got to laugh, the laughs run a little thin amongst certain communities of the world though. I’m sure you don’t want to be bombarded with a humanitarian message, I mean, many of us suffer from charity burn-out these days. All those ads on TV, miserable ads depicting every kind of sufferance you can imagine. That might be why the people behind Red Nose Day conjured up the idea in the first place, it first appeared shortly after Band Aid (the original 80′s version – with that awful Xmas song that I won’t repeat here).

Comic Relief‘s Red Nose Day took the idea in a more comedic direction, something unimagined before then, basically humour and suffering didn’t mix, it was seen as bad taste, but they pulled it off, mainly by constantly recruiting the top names in British comedy every year (or almost), sometimes it can be a little grating, a sort of emotional roller-coaster, first a funny sketch with Little Britain or some old Python, and then a series of traumatising images of Third World suffering. Still they have to get the message through somehow. The monies raised will be used by the charity to provide aid and support throughout Africa and the UK benefiting a number of causes including malaria, education and maternal and mental health. read more

Five Humans On Sale Now!

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Don’t worry I’m not featuring a secret sale of human slaves, this is just a quick mention for the charitable t-shirt store FiveHumans.com who are running an end of summer sale and offering a generous 15% off all their t-shirts, especially when you consider they already donate 10% of their profits to charity! Sale runs from Sept 5th ‚Äì Sept 14th. read more