Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Hoot! T-shirts ready! plus giveaway, other activities

Hey everyone! We have a lot of projects going on right now and many ways that you can get involved and support us!

Firstly, we want to launch the new SNSD T-shirt based on the new album Hoot!

Front

 
Back

There are two cool designs to choose from, and they come in a variety of colors. 

Definitely take advantage of the new products for the holidays and order soon! Your purchase supports children in unfortunate circumstances and makes you part of our global network of people with a vision for change.  

There's also one more reason to buy soon--we're announcing a giveaway of SNSD merchandise to our supporters.
FOR EVERY $30 spent, you will get 1 ENTRY for Prizes:
  • SNSD Customized Messenger Bag
  • SNSD Hoot! Album
  • Polaris (Star Star Star) Cellphone Keychain
More prizes and winners will be added based on the number of entries :)
Click here to enter our shop and to check out what these prizes look like.

In more local, club matters, we are already well begun on our next project making beaded strawberry charms to hopefully sell and raise more funds for our initiatives. We are looking to contact volunteers working in Haiti or other countries in need. Rather than donate the proceeds from our SNSD project to a large charity for an abritrary purpose, we are hoping to buy them some much-needed supplies and send them directly. We'll continue to update you on the progress of this project!  

As always, you can check in with us on Facebook, Twitter, our website, or send us an email. Thanks again for being part of our movement for global change!

Finally, one of our club members had put together this video that illustrates the goals and some of the projects of Crafts4Change. Enjoy!





Monday, November 29, 2010

Welcome to Crafts4Change

Welcome to the official blog of Crafts4Change!

Crafts4Change is a nonprofit volunteer organization whose goal is to support children both locally and internationally by engaging in creative activities. With the stifling competition in today's society, Crafts4Change aims to promote creativity and self-confidence through simple crafts. These crafts are simple in that they are fairly easy to learn but also provide children a unique way to connect with and emotionally aid others that are less fortunate.

Crafts4Change originated with a group of high school students in Rockville, MD, who wanted to give back to the community and love creative and artistic crafts.

With this blog, Crafts4Change hopes to update members on current activities, connect supporters from around the world, and spread awareness of issues that children face in our local community and globally.

At the moment, Crafts4Change is working on 3 projects:


Our SNSD T-shirt design

1. Marketing a T-shirt of our own design for fans of the Korean pop group SNSD. Crafts4Change's mission is to promote international diversity and connection through the marketing of SNSD products. SNSD is an internationally renown pop group, allowing Crafts4Change to connect fans and supporters around the world through music. All proceeds will be donated either to an international charity, such as Red Cross or UNICEF, or used to fund crafts-making sessions in lower-income districts.

We were featured on the popular fan site Daily K-Pop News too!

We have sold over 15 shirts and have shipped the first batch to fans around the world. Thanks to everyone who has already supported our project, and through this, children in need! The next set of shirts will be ordered soon so if you're interested fill out a form on our site.


Our tissue paper flowers--the final
count of flowers should be about 200.

2. We are nearly finished with our local project of making tissue paper flower bouquets for the Shady Grove Adventist Hospital. Students at our school and at neighboring schools in Rockville have all helped to make this project a success. We hope to be ready to donate the flowers to Shady Grove by this weekend.
 
3. We are working on our next SNSD product for charity based on SNSD's new album Hoot! We want to hear your ideas! To contribute your ideas and feedback fill out our survey.

That's all for our first update; we'll be back soon with more information about the charity or cause to which we'll give the proceeds of our SNSD fundraiser.



If you want to contact us about our products, starting a branch of Crafts4Change, getting involved, or any other questions email admin@crafts4change.org

You can also follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook :) Thank you for supporting us, creativity, and children across the globe!

~Crafts4Change