I have been bombarded, through recent experiences and readings, with thoughts and ideas that have me believe that the most immediate change we can create is with the power of the dollar and not the vote. Despite a progressive, positive, ambitious plan of the current administration, it is business as usual with gridlock and the [...]

Why? (Be)cause corporations are trying to jump on the socially responsible bandwagon, so they partner with nonprofits and create some kind of marketing event to help raise awareness and funds for a cause, while building some goodwill of their own.
American Diabetes Association and Netflix
For every new sign up that happens through Monday, March 8, a [...]

I couldn’t come up with a better way to describe the premise behind these videos than the one used on thefuntheory.com so…
This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something [...]

The second company that I want to share with you is called MARCsMovement. I had the pleasure of meeting Brent Freeman, Co-founder, and was introduced to his website where you can ‘shop responsibly’. What’s unique about MARCsMovement is that they donate 5% of every purchase to the charity of your choice and offer discounted prices [...]

Beginning, now, we will focus our site on sharing information about current issues, trends, and ideas that impact the social sector, the emergence of social responsibility in business, advocacy and public policy issues that matter to us, and sustainable practices to save the planet . We will accomplish this primarily though profiling various companies, organizations, [...]

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 [...]

There has been a lot on my mind and on the world’s collective minds and hearts; I am sure. These last couple weeks have been filled with tumultuous events both locally and globally. With all the turmoil, it becomes overwhelming at times to even think straight but having to work through the chaos and go [...]

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 [...]

the future of fybut from the fybut on Vimeo.

2008 was a very good year thanks to you. we hope to see more, do more and be more in 2009.
fybut in review 2008 from the fybut on Vimeo.

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 [...]

I have a lot of be thankful for this year including the chance to share me, through this venture called fybut. I am thankful for the support of all who believe in me and what we are trying to accomplish with this company. I am thankful for friends old and new who have participated in [...]

We haven’t posted since the end of the 2008 presidential elections, so I thought it might be a good idea to let everyone know what’s going on in the fybut world. I have been in contact with Keep a Child Alive and we are discussing our current involvement and the evolution of our involvement. We [...]

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 [...]

i just wanted to give a special shout out to a special fybut fan. thanks, i’ll call her “bangie” to mask here true identity, for the fybut love and support and the lovely pics of lovely you. and the red1 pic is oh so perfect timing.

i forgot to mention that we want to get a new fybut commercial posted soon, so stay tuned for that.
vblog for october 10, 2008 from the fybut on Vimeo.

there is a lot of blame being pointed back and forth across the proverbial aisle and it’s disheartening. the financial crisis at hand isn’t a democrat or republican problem. it is a global problem (look at the indices around the world and their reaction to the news).  we all need to do what we can [...]

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 [...]

we’ve been putting together our fybut fan page on facebook. it is a work in process but we are ready to share it. it will be a place that we can interact more freely, so i encourage you to check it out and become a fan. see you there.

today and every september 21 is the international day of peace as declared by the united nations in 2001.
The resolution: “Declares that the International Day of Peace shall henceforth be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, an invitation to all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities for the duration [...]

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. [...]

we have posted the pictures from the festival on our flickr account, so you can revisit them at your leisure. with the passing of this festival, it signals the end of our 2008 festival season and we went out with a big bang.  it was our first venture out into the public and it was [...]

a wanted to share a few stories from the festival.

you want to borrow my shirt?
on saturday afternoon, while i was manning the booth, a lady came walking up and i gave her my customary “hello, how are you doing?” she didn’t seem to be too interested in perusing the tees, so i was expecting some [...]

the final day of the three day music and arts festival was very chill. there weren’t as many people this day as the previous two, but we still did manage to share our designs and company with those that stopped by. what was especially cool was to see three people that purchased our tees the [...]

day two was the longest of the three day music and art festival. the longest day did not disappoint in bringing the crowd and we were the benefactors. we were able to chat with many a cool people this day; unfortunately, the video montage and pics do not come close to doing the day justice [...]

day one began with much anticipation and ended with a sense of beautiful fulfilling exhaustion having shared our designs and company with a bunch of wonderfully cool people. a fybut high-five to melissa and dj for being our very first wonderfully cool people to stop by and it was funny running into you two at [...]

west beach music festival bye byes from the fybut on Vimeo.

this is the week of the west beach music festival in santa barbara and we can’t wait for this weekend. it’s going to be an awesome weekend. also, i was informed of available opportunities to volunteer at this weekend’s festival, so to anybody interested, read on.
If there is any one that is interested in volunteering [...]

here are a couple of PSAs for keep a child alive. the second vid was to promote kca for the american express members project that just ended but i wanted to share the vid because i thought it captured the spirit of those in africa afflicted by HIV and AIDS. there are a couple of [...]