Here are some ‘after’ pics of Catherine. She helped raise nearly $1000 to fight children’s cancer–amazing.

One of my dear friend’s daughter is shaving her head today to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research with the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. This is her before picture and I will post an after picture at a later date. You can visit her fund raising page  here if you would like to make [...]

It really has been amazing to see what has transpired since the devastating earthquake hit Haiti. Both the immediate carnage and tragedy and the equally immediate response by the world to not let Haiti suffer alone. Across all media and mediums there has been a unified voice of care, concern, love and empathy for those [...]

Today is World AIDS Day and I read an article on MSNBC regarding the status of AIDS around the world. Here are some excerpts.
AIDS is still a global concern and a crisis in Africa.
World health officials say there’s some encouraging data on the HIV front — the number of people infected with the virus [...]

The devastation (worst flooding in 40 years) caused by the recent tropical storm in the Philippines has the country calling for aid that is critical to the relief efforts and I found a site that makes it easier to donate funds to the Philippine National Red Cross for those of us outside [...]

Today is the International Day of Peace and another opportunity to confirm your commitment to cultivating peace on this crazy earth that we live in. I was at Urban Outfitter last night and purchased this cool Peace One Day t-shirt that donates proceeds to the non profit Peace One Day. I didn’t realize that it [...]

There was a recent psa contest with Keep A Child Alive and the two winning submissions would earn a trip of a life to time to Africa to see first hand the struggles and the truimphs first hand. I really wanted to participate but couldn’t muster up a worthy submission in time. Hopefully, they do [...]

This is the night that Keep a Child Alive will be featured on American Idol. Check your local listings for time and please consider texting “alive” to 90999 and donate $5. If you do, you will get a confirmation text where you will need to reply with a “yes” to process the donation. You will [...]

There is some exciting news regarding KCA that I wanted to share with you. Read on…
ATTENTION KCA Community!
We are thrilled to announce the official launch of our nationwide KCA Texting Challenge!  As you know, if you text the word “ALIVE” to 90999, you automatically donate $5.00 to lifesaving AIDS treatment for KCA children and families.
TODAY, [...]

Our first step forward in the new direction is to make all the designs available for fundraising*.  If you purchase a tee online, we will donate $10 of your purchase to a charitable organization of your choice. Simply email us at thefybut@fybut.com after you have placed your order to instruct us where you want the [...]

We created a profile on the KCA College website that I wanted to share with you. There are lots of significant changes in the works for fybut, so I encourage you to join us there, especially if you are interested in our KCA endeavors. More to come in the coming days, weeks, and months.

Today is World AIDS Day and as stated earlier, we have made our inaugaral donation to Keep A Chld Alive. We donated $250 with your support. We look forward to continuing to support their heroic efforts and appreciate your continued support of our company and dedication to philanthropy and combating AIDS. We hope to make [...]

We have, to date, helped to raise nearly $500 to support the mission of KCA in the fight against AIDS in Africa that includes the $230 that was raised with the KCA College chapter at Hilltop High School and the over $200 that we have raised on behalf of fybut, through our own sales. Fybut [...]

(From left to right: Jade, Jessica, Brittnie and Ms. RADford)
I just wanted to say how inspired I am by the KCA College chapter at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, California. The desire to make a difference and the willingness to take a stand is something that translates across all ages and geographies and should [...]

I had the priviledge of meeting some amazing students at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, CA, today. I was contacted by KCA College regarding their desire to have a fybut tee shirt sale to raise funds for KCA. We had a short amount of time, as they were selling them during a half hour [...]

we wanted to share a little shout out that we got from kca college and take this time to let you know that we will be making our first donation to kca on december 1st, which is world AIDS day. we hope that if you plan to purchase a red1 tee that you make it [...]

check it out and hopefully we can get a new fybut commercial up soon too.

Keep a Child Alive Commercial from mGive on Vimeo.
purchase a red1 tee and make not only a donation, but a statement.

red1is a simple design looking to make a profound statement about the AIDS pandemic in Africa today. it’s an expression [...]

newly appointed, as of a few weeks ago, minister of health barbara hogan spoke at the international AIDS vaccine conference urging for scientist to find a vaccine for a disease that infects 5.5 million people in her country of south africa, where 550,000 currently receive medication. her speech marked a momentous turning of the page [...]

the voting for the favorite runner-up card design for the hallmark yourholiday product (red) contest has been tabulated and the winner is allan nacapuy. the runner-up card will be sold on hallmark.com so congratulations to allan. i didn’t win the contest but a big thank you to everyone that took some time to vote for [...]

continuing with our AIDS awareness month, there was a recent article by reuters posted on msnbc.com about a conference to be held in south africa this week regarding the development of an AIDS vaccine. it is a momentus event because it is being held in africa where AIDS is a pandemic and because of the [...]

they have posted the alternate card designs for the hallmark yourholiday contest and my design is one of them. they are also asking visitors to vote for their favorite alternate design and i am just guessing that the winner might be included with the other finalists cards and make it to production. again, this hallmark [...]

keep a child alive has revamped their website, so i thought it would be a good time to tell you about some of their upcoming events. the following information was taken from their website at www.keepachildalive.org
november 14-15 in nyc: keep a child alive student AIDS summit
What is the Keep a Child Alive Student AIDS [...]

there was an article posted on msnbc about the relief efforts in areas affected by the recent hurricanes. the organizations providing aid such as the american red cross are struggling to raise the necessary funds. they point to the lack of media coverage that was present after hurricane katrina and helped provide the necessary awareness [...]

i designed a tee for my god daughter who is raising money to fight diabetes. she is participating in step out to fight diabetes. if you are interested, you can click here to find out more about the american diabetes association and step out to fight diabetes. you can also make a donation, if you [...]

in response to the immediate needs of those struggling to rebuild from the devastation of hurricane ike, we are taking part in feeding america’s inaugural hunger action month of september. we are going to donate $5 of all tees sold online (except the red1design), at least for the rest of this month, to feeding america. [...]

american express is running a contest, where they will award a total of 2.5 million dollars to philanthropic project(s). keep a child alive is one of the projects in the running. you don’t have to be an american express card holder to participate. the following is a message that i have received from kca.
Dear friends [...]

i started to notice these television commercials by this organization and was compelled to check them out. they use all types of media (tv, radio, print, billboard, etc.) to provide positive messages that represent community values.
“We are a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing the values that make a difference in our communities. We create public [...]

i recently met jennifer salazar who is a regional representative for the kca college program. this program provides the tools for high school and college students to create an action organization on their campus that supports the mission of keep a child alive.  please visit their website at www.kcacollege.com, where you can view the existing [...]

i was informed of this new search engine called goodsearch, where your internet searches turn into donations for the charity of your choice. i thought it was a ‘good’ example of creating something practical and useful that generated funds for worthy causes that are important to you.  here is a description of how it works [...]

so why has fybut decided to champion the mission of keep a child alive?

because AIDS is a deadly epidemic that is not going away. the sheer numbers of millions that have died from this disease, needlessly, and the millions that will die from this disease, needlessly, without action, are staggering and the magnitude of [...]