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Request HN: A Steve t-shirt with proceeds donated to cancer research

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This is what I would love to see:

A shirt with a great B&W Jobs silhouette on the front, maybe stylized a bit, and a quote, maybe 'stay hungry. stay foolish'.

Sell the shirts for $40 and give all proceeds after cost to cancer research. The whole internet would buy one. I think you can shirts done for about $10/pop en masse.

Does anyone in the community have relationships with printers & designers to make this happen? And/or a cancer non-profit that could spearhead & take the donations? I can be the logistics organizer and contact person: paul@paulitex.com

Would really love to see this happen.

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Being a cancer battler myself, i'd buy one, especially if it went to a charity that is actually doing good things with the money (and not one of the "foundations" that just use donations to fund their nice offices and TV ads).

Can you recommend one?

Just saw ThinkingOfSteveJobs.com for the front page on a few minutes, but I don't know what happened to it. It looks like that site is doing pretty much this.

I'll register the domain stevejobstshirt.org and get a splash page up asap if this gets any traction

Why not also add this to kickstarter or something of the sort? $10 for a T shirt (or more) + remainder donated to cancer research in Steve's name?

BTW I would also love to see that logo on the shirt. That's it. Black shirt, white apple with steve's face. Quotes may not be necessary.

Apparently I can't :(

From kickstarter guidelines (http://www.kickstarter.com/proposals/guidelines):

My project does not incorporate charity or cause funding. Examples of prohibited use include raising money for the Red Cross, funding an awareness campaign, funding a scholarship, or donating a portion of funds raised on Kickstarter to a charity or cause.

I've found these 2 sites that appear to do similar, but for charities. I found the links via Slashdot ("Kickstarter like service for charities") http://www.firstgiving.com/ http://startsomegood.com/

This last one is UK centric: http://www.justgiving.com/

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