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Feb 07 '08 by fouchnickens

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Rosa Loves: T-Shirts with A Story and a Cause

Buying a t-shirt might not save the world, but it can certainly help one person/ family at a time. From Springwise:

One of the challenges for charitable organizations large and small is to get potential donors to feel the need for help in an immediate and personal way. By selling t-shirts imprinted with the stories of the specific individuals in need of assistance, Rosa Loves raises the necessary funds while also giving donors a tangible connection with the people they have helped.

Each Rosa Loves t-shirt is created to help a specific person, family or community, and 60 percent of its sales go directly to providing that assistance. The story of those in need is told on each t-shirt through not just a graphical design on the outside, but also a written description of that story on the shirt's inside, just over the wearer's heart. T-shirts are hand-numbered and created in limited runs; once the needed amount has been raised for a particular cause, Rosa Loves stops printing and selling the associated t-shirt. A series of t-shirts over the holidays, for example, was designed to provide holiday meals to 10 families in the St. Augustine, Florida, area, where Rosa Loves is based. In just two weeks, the shirts sold out and Rosa Loves had enough funds to supply the needed meals.

The site's founders explain: "It's usually thoughts like, 'those people over there,' that perpetuate a sense of complacency and lack of concern. Rosa Loves wants to shed light on the stories around us, to give them a real face, a real name."

The Rosa Loves website

chelly on Feb 07 '08 at 12:51pm

those designs aren't too shabby

fouchnickens on Feb 07 '08 at 2:22pm

Yeah, the shirts are nicely designed and for $25 bucks, you have a real stake in someone's future.

chelly on Feb 07 '08 at 2:48pm

it is nice that you can read the stories behind each of the designs and what the money is going toward

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I am a people-oriented person who enjoys the power of creativity and connection in my life. Some of the things I cherish in life include:

-- learning through experience and interaction;
-- food and culture;
-- literature (especially magazines and poetry);
-- arts (both fine and craft), fashion, and design (especially architecture and interior design);
-- exercising in the outdoors;
-- alternative/holistic health and nutrition;
-- music and film (all kinds!); and
-- politics (national and international) and civic engagement.

I have a secret desire to live life as a Broadway musical, including the song and dance routines that break out at (in?)opportune times. And although I officially am a "thirty-something," I have a heart of an eight-year old tomboy.