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Request HN: A Steve t-shirt with proceeds donated to cancer research

12 points by paulitex 15y ago

This is what I would love to see: A shirt with a great B&W Jobs silhouette on the front, maybe stylized a bit, and a quote, maybe 'stay hungry. stay foolish'. Sell the shirts for $40 and give all proceeds after cost to cancer research. The whole internet would buy one. I think you can shirts done for about $10/pop en masse. Does anyone in the community have relationships with printers & designers to make this happen? And/or a cancer non-profit that could spearhead & take the donations? I can be the logistics organizer and contact person: paul@paulitex.com Would really love to see this happen.

paulitex 15y ago
I'll register the domain stevejobstshirt.org and get a splash page up asap if this gets any traction
- caw 15y ago
  Why not also add this to kickstarter or something of the sort? $10 for a T shirt (or more) + remainder donated to cancer research in Steve's name? BTW I would also love to see that logo on the shirt. That's it. Black shirt, white apple with steve's face. Quotes may not be necessary.
  - paulitex 15y ago
    Apparently I can't :( From kickstarter guidelines (http://www.kickstarter.com/proposals/guidelines http://www.kickstarter.com/proposals/guidelines): My project does not incorporate charity or cause funding. Examples of prohibited use include raising money for the Red Cross, funding an awareness campaign, funding a scholarship, or donating a portion of funds raised on Kickstarter to a charity or cause.
    - caw 15y ago
      I've found these 2 sites that appear to do similar, but for charities. I found the links via Slashdot ("Kickstarter like service for charities") http://www.firstgiving.com/ http://www.firstgiving.com/ http://startsomegood.com/ http://startsomegood.com/ This last one is UK centric: http://www.justgiving.com/ http://www.justgiving.com/
apike 15y ago
Copyright issues aside, I'd pay $40 for this with that slogan as a poster: http://mlkshk.com/p/80ZI http://mlkshk.com/p/80ZI
Andrenid 15y ago
Being a cancer battler myself, i'd buy one, especially if it went to a charity that is actually doing good things with the money (and not one of the "foundations" that just use donations to fund their nice offices and TV ads).
- paulitex 15y ago
  Can you recommend one?
wahwah 15y ago
Just saw ThinkingOfSteveJobs.com for the front page on a few minutes, but I don't know what happened to it. It looks like that site is doing pretty much this.

12 points by paulitex 15y ago

paulitex 15y ago

I'll register the domain stevejobstshirt.org and get a splash page up asap if this gets any traction

caw 15y ago
Why not also add this to kickstarter or something of the sort? $10 for a T shirt (or more) + remainder donated to cancer research in Steve's name? BTW I would also love to see that logo on the shirt. That's it. Black shirt, white apple with steve's face. Quotes may not be necessary.
- paulitex 15y ago
  Apparently I can't :( From kickstarter guidelines (http://www.kickstarter.com/proposals/guidelines http://www.kickstarter.com/proposals/guidelines): My project does not incorporate charity or cause funding. Examples of prohibited use include raising money for the Red Cross, funding an awareness campaign, funding a scholarship, or donating a portion of funds raised on Kickstarter to a charity or cause.
  - caw 15y ago
    I've found these 2 sites that appear to do similar, but for charities. I found the links via Slashdot ("Kickstarter like service for charities") http://www.firstgiving.com/ http://www.firstgiving.com/ http://startsomegood.com/ http://startsomegood.com/ This last one is UK centric: http://www.justgiving.com/ http://www.justgiving.com/

apike 15y ago

Copyright issues aside, I'd pay $40 for this with that slogan as a poster: http://mlkshk.com/p/80ZI http://mlkshk.com/p/80ZI

Andrenid 15y ago

Being a cancer battler myself, i'd buy one, especially if it went to a charity that is actually doing good things with the money (and not one of the "foundations" that just use donations to fund their nice offices and TV ads).

paulitex 15y ago
Can you recommend one?

wahwah 15y ago

Just saw ThinkingOfSteveJobs.com for the front page on a few minutes, but I don't know what happened to it. It looks like that site is doing pretty much this.