Fridays are a holiday at Give A Shirt! We love wearing our shirts on Friday. If we all wear our shirts on one day, each week, as much as possible, we can raise awareness of Give A Shirt – and our goal to help homeless students!

We ask our Facebook fans to wear their shirts on Fridays too.

Casual Friday at the office? Wear your Give A Shirt! Tell your office about us!

Are you a student? Wear your Give A Shirt on Fridays this school year! Be ready to tell your friends at school!

We’ll have the new shirts in the store soon!

We need your help! We need volunteers who are willing to help us table at events around the Salem area.

Are you willing to be our eyes and ears? Are you ready to share Give A Shirt with your community? We want to impact our community and help our homeless student population. Can you help us by joining our Street Team? More info will come.

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The Logan Martin Band is going on tour. Their first location for the tour is at Salem Alliance Church in Salem, Oregon. (map/directions)

Help us welcome them on Sunday, June 20th @ 7pm. Dad’s will love going to a concert on Father’s Day!

Cost is $5 minimum donation to Give A Shirt or a pack of socks.

Come support your favorite local cause!

Give A Shirt needs your help!

NBCs Today Show and Pepsi:Refresh are giving away $100,000 grants!

Winning this grant would also include national media coverage for Give A Shirt.

We need your help to nominate us for this award. Can you spend 5 minutes today for Give A Shirt?

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“Homeless students.

900 of them last year in Salem and Keizer, Oregon. A population of about 140,000.

Whitney Ferrin, a senior at West Salem High School in Salem, Oregon, decided that she had to do something to help her fellow students.

She founded GIVE A SHIRT – a local-area nonprofit that exists to GIVE HOPE * RESTORE DIGNITY to homeless students in the Salem-Keizer School District.

For every $15 shirt sold (http://igiveashirt.org), $10 will be given to help homeless students get the clothes they need.

Proceeds from shirt sales go directly to help homeless students in need.

Get a shirt you want, give a shirt they need.

When you stand out, they blend in.

I GIVE A SHIRT.

DO YOU?”

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Thank you so much for helping on this! Could be an awesome opportunity for coverage and an amazing grant for Give A Shirt!

-Give A Shirt team

This week our team had the honor and privilege of shopping with over 50 students!

Here is Josh holding one of our four foot receipts.

Tuesday and Thursday we went to Old Navy and they went above and beyond making kids feel welcomed: they bought us pizza, soda, and snacks and had everything set up in their break room. As we walked in, we were greeted and sent upstairs to hang out, play games on the foosball table or video games on their TV, sit on their comfy couches, and eat as much pizza as we wanted – talk about five star treatment!

But it doesn’t end there.

They gave us over $500 dollars in discounts! The manager, Molly, and her team are such gracious and incredible people! Welcoming, kind, buying clothes for kids right out of their own pockets – they see the vision of Give a Shirt and embody it fully.

We are so thankful for them.

If you get a chance this week, go in and thank them for all they’ve done for Give a Shirt and support their business by buying some flip flops (2 for 5 bucks!).

Also, look for them wearing their Give a Shirts! Just about everyone on staff bought a shirt to support us. One girl is even going to get her entire family to buy one and wear it at their family reunion this fall!

Wednesday was equally encouraging – 10 or so students met us out at Ross Dress for Less to find the clothes they need to fit in.

So many good stories there… a girl who had to quit school her senior year because of a terrible illness and is about to finish in just three weeks! Thanks to you and your support she was able to get her graduation outfit. Or the girl who donated two dollars to Give a Shirt, knowing it isn’t much but she just wants to give back. Guys finding the right shoes, jeans, and shirts all within their price range. The smiles on people’s faces as they left and the hugs and thank yous because we really helped out.

What an amazing week.

We are not just in the shirt business here, we are in the restoration business.

And if just one kid is able to do better because of our work in selling shirts then our mission has been accomplished.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

For all of your support and for giving a shirt!

Thanks to you over 150 pairs of shoes were given away yesterday!!

We could not do this without all of our fans, customers, donaters, helpers, and home-base. You are the movement!! Keep wearing your shirt proudly!

We would like to extend our thanks to Bo Lane and Rethink Monthly (Twitter) for helping Give A Shirt! They have produced a video for us in partnership with Chris Hahn from New Modern Science, a photo shoot with Kesha Thomas (http://bit.ly/cpnikk) (email) (blog), and a magazine article (http://bit.ly/dxXSqs)! They have also given Give A Shirt a banner advertisement on their Web site – and all of this for FREE. Please say thank you to them with us!

We are so grateful!

Here is the video just released today!

I Give A Shirt from Rethink Monthly on Vimeo.

This was an exciting day. Numbers turned into names and we made friends. All the shirts sold led to this day and the shopping trips that took place on the four days following. Special thanks to Adam S. for putting this together.

Thanks for stopping by to support local students and their efforts to give hope and restore dignity to the hundreds of homeless students in Salem, OR.

Looking for ways to get involved? There are three easy ways:

1. Buy a shirt!

2. Donate!

3. Spread the word to your friends and family via our twitter feed or facebook fan page!

**UPDATE:  A friend of I Give A Shirt edited the Fox12 footage in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br8EffDr3wE **

We are accepting donations from 8-5pm Monday – Friday. We are so grateful for a foundation of such wonderful supporters! Please talk about us to your friends. We would really appreciate your help!