Tara's T's - T-Shirt Fundraiser for Breast Cancer Research

Tara's T's

www.TarasTees.com

This purpose of this website is share successful t-shirt fundraisers for breast cancer research, and to inspire others to do the same. Total raised since May 2008: $3,632.82

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Prayer Request: My sister Kris's breast cancer has spread to her liver and further into her bones. She has started back on chemotherapy. Your prayers for her would be appreciated as she continues her fight. She has been fighting for 13 years, since she was 30. She is the strongest woman I know. ~Tara

271 Shirts were ordered!

June 20, 2008 - All of the shirts requested to be shipped were mailed out USPS Priority today! The shipping total was $123.95.

Click here for the Supporters Web Page

Here is our fundraising total from the original t-shirt fundraiser:

$4,500.11 collected for t-shirts & donations
$ 128.00 collected for shipping
$4,628.11 total collected

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($1,542.44) cost of shirts
($ 123.95) actual shipping cost - Click here & here

= $2,961.72
Donation to Susan G. Komen for the Cure!!!

Checks made out directly to Susan G. Komen for the Cure:

$ 50.00

4067
Pat R.

$ 30.00

1821
Joan A. (made out to me, I signed it over to SGK)

$250.00

4323
Christopher F.

$ 15.00

6566
Jeffrey K.

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$2,616.72 - Money Order Amount - Click here

Click here for Acknowledgment Letter from Susan G. Komen for the Cure

I encourage you to hold your own t-shirt fundraisers to raise funds for breast cancer research! For the t-shirts, I use CustomInk.com. They have a fabulous website where you can design your own shirts, and they offer free shipping. My orders with them have been somewhat complicated with so many different colors and sizes, but they have got the orders exactly right every time. And they have always been on time, or even early, when they ship them to me! If you do have a t-shirt fundraiser, please email me and tell me how it went. Pictures are welcome too! ~Tara

TarasTees.com and AllStarStrikeZone.com teamed up for the

“Strike Out Breast Cancer”

T-shirt fundraiser!

Here is our fundraising total:

$1,387.92 Collected for shirts

$ 51.00 Collected for shipping

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$1,438.92 Total collected

$ 723.62 Cost of shirts

$ 44.20 Actual shipping cost - click here

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$ 767.82 Total expenses

$671.10 to be donated to Des Moines Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure!

Click here for copy of Money Order

For those who chose to have the shirts mailed, they were sent 10/22/08 US Priority.
For those who wanted to pick them up, you can pick them up at All-Star Strike Zone
(www.AllStarStrikeZone.com) during their regular business hours.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Click here for a list of the "Strike Out Breast Cancer" Supporters

The Story of this Website

(You can see the original web page here with the story.)

I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in April 2008. I have watched my sister suffer with this disease for 12+ years, and have a cousin who has recently gone through treatments as well. I just don't understand how one cell in the body can decide to go haywire and cause all kinds of problems! I want this cured so I don't have to worry about my daughter, my sisters, my niece, my friends...

This is my family - my heart and soul:

You can bet I will do everything in my power to be with them for a long time to come.

As I was sitting around waiting for surgery and my treatments to begin, I got an idea to help raise funds for Breast Cancer research. I thought "What if I design a t-shirt that friends and family can purchase, where the proceeds will go to benefit breast cancer research? And on that t-shirt could be a website address that people could visit that would show them how to have their own t-shirt fundraiser? And it could build from there, with all proceeds going towards breast cancer research!" So that is what I did.

My family, friends, and their friends came through and purchased 271 t-shirts, which raised about $3,000! You can see a list of all of the supporters here. I picked the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization to be the recipient of this fundraising. The founder, Nancy G. Brinker, promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. I want to help her keep that promise! You can read the story of Susan G. Komen here.

~Tara

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