Raise Your City with Twice As Warm

Raise Your City with Twice As Warm

Our friends Ryan and Brendan at Raise Your City have launched a new campaign this week, which will help them continue to raise thousands of dollars for deserving non-profit organizations. By backing their campaign, you’ll get access to their future events, and a number of cool perks, including with exclusive collaboration t-shirt we designed with [...]

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Recap on our Facepainting Adventure!

Recap on our Facepainting Adventure!

Our trip last week to Bright Beginnings was so much fun! We set up a Facepainting booth for the Family Fun and Fitness Day and painted the children’s faces. Sara Moline from Zosimos Botanicals joined us and we painted with their ultra safe and all natural paints for the kids! We had a variety of [...]

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Living in a Homeless Camp

I recently took my first visit to a homeless camp in Woodbridge, Virginia. Not many people know that homeless camps exist, but if you knew where to look, you could find a homeless camp near you. When homeless shelters reach their capacity, many folks are turned away and have no place to go. Shelters can [...]

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Bright Beginnings

I recently visited Bright Beginnings, a nationally-accredited child and family development center in Washington DC that offers a bright start for homeless infants, toddlers and preschoolers and their families. Bright Beginnings serves children whose families are living in crisis shelters or transitional housing. I brought the children 48 winter hats, 48 winter gloves, and 24 [...]

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Our Trip to ThriveDC

On Tuesday, we visited ThriveDC, an organization that provides daily meals, showers, job training and case management services to people in need in Washington DC. We brought them 30 of our winter hats and 10 pairs of our winter gloves. “Thrive DC began in 1979 as the Dinner Program for Homeless Women, as a response [...]

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Being Homeless During Hurricane Sandy

Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS Imagine not having a safe place to put any of your belongings. No safe place to sleep. No place to store and refrigerate food. No place to wash your clothes, keep your clothes, take a shower. Now imagine that one of the largest storms to ever hit the East Coast is headed [...]

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The Pallet Project 2012 Recap

This weekend, we were invited by No Kings Collective to take part in their 4-day long art/fashion extravaganza called The Pallet Project. It was a HUGE honor to be a part of it, and we took the opportunity very seriously. I think I got about 10 hours of sleep total in those 4 days, so [...]

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New Hats for Sunday Suppers

Last week I brought 20 new winter hats for people in need at a Sunday Suppers event. Sunday Suppers is a non-profit group that organizes a dinner for the homeless every Sunday evening in DC. Yes, every single Sunday no matter what. In fact, in the past 21 years they haven’t missed a Sunday since [...]

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