I have a friend who is a Nerdfighter who is also fighting cancer. It's expensive! Some of the funds raised will go to help her. The rest of the funds raised will go to support TSWGO, which has a waiting list for the first time in their history!



Shirts will be delivered approximately 2 weeks after the campaign closes.



A Nerdfighter friend of mine has been fighting cancer (Hodgkin's Lymphoma) off and on for over a decade. Through this whole time, her support has been very limited. Currently, she is unable to work and struggling with medical bills (on top of insurance) of about $200 per month. I'd like for this campaign to support her for at least the next 2 months. She has no idea that I'm doing this and I would like it to stay that way, hence not using her name.



As a nerdfighter, I also support "This Star Won't Go Out," the organization founded in honor of Nerdfighter Esther Earl, as their mission is to support people like my friend who do all they can, but still struggle to pay everything that piles up during cancer treatment. This amazing organization has a waiting list of families who need help fighting cancer for the first time in their history! I would like to donate some of the funds raised by these t-shirts to go to them as well. How much depends a little on how many shirts we sell.



So, if we sell 50 shirts, TSWGO gets 25% of the proceeds. 100 shirts and it will jump to 50%. Anything over 150 shirts and I will tack on an extra 5% to the jump so that TSWGO gets 80% of the proceeds, yet my friend still can be supported and not have to freak out over finances for at least the next 2 months.



The campaign will end JUST in time to get shirts by Christmas, on December 9th. That doesn't give us a ton of time to promote, but I believe in your power to decrease suck, Nerdfighters! Thank you all for your support and for sharing this campaign with your friends, family members, and other nerdfighters. DFTBA!



Day One Update:

I am totally blown away by the support shown today and have decided that maybe 100 shirts isn't as lofty a goal as I thought! I know there are some international Nerdfighters who would like to purchase shirts--please message me and we'll try to work something out to get you a shirt since there is no international shipping. Also, I've decided that if we blow the goal out of the water and sell 200 shirts or more, we'll go up to 90% to TSWGO. After that, we'll just be glad to have more than 2 months for my friend and blown away by the large number of shirts! Thank you again to all those who've supported!

Day 2 Update: I am still totally mind-blown by the support shown. THANK YOU! There are about a half-dozen of you who's personal thank you e-mails came back to me for some reason or another, so if you didn't get one, know that I do not appreciate you any less! You are all awesome and I cannot thank you enough!!

Update: My friend has suffered some set-backs this week, so being able to show her how close we're getting to our goal has been absolutely wonderful. Thank you again to all who've supported by buying shirts, sharing the link, telling your friends, and any other way you've done so. You're all made of awesome!

UPDATE: With about a week left to go, we've met our goal. I'm blown away by this, but also kind of saddened by the fact that my inbox has been devoid of "congratulations, so-and-so bought a shirt" e-mails for a couple of days. PLEASE continue to share the link and encourage further worldsuck decreasing. Imagine the good that could be done if all of the 3000+ Facebook supporters of this campaign bought shirts! Massive thank yous to those of you who have already done so!

FINAL UPDATE: Okay, people, this thing ends tomorrow and we have met our goal of 100 shirts already, which is pretty incredible. But I still think we can do more! I'd love to see a last-minute blitz, so if you'd all share this one last time, I'd sure appreciate it. Thank you all for being so made of awesome!

Should have said this from the beginning--Thank you to the awesome Sarah for the help on the artwork!

