I Love Rosa Loves

I know Valentine’s Day isn’t until tomorrow, but I’m going to be busy packing for New York (yay!) and I’ve really wanted to share with you this important love-related item.

As I’ve previously noted (on this blog, Creative Victuals, and in conversations with you), I’m not huge on Valentine’s Day, alias, the glorified Hallmark holiday. I don’t enjoy the staples of Valentine’s Day; it’s the small, unique gifts that (to me) show how much you care about another person. This is exactly the kind of V-Day mantra D and I have taken, which I hope sticks with us for years to come.

This year I was stoked to find something for D that was not only cool, but that also made a difference in the world.

Enter: Rosa Loves.

Rosa Loves is a talented group of designers who have infiltrated the t-shirt business as a way to impact in-need individuals and families around the world.

But these aren’t your standard t-shirts.

Each shirt is designed for a certain family or project. When you buy a particular shirt, a large percentage of the proceeds go to the person of family for which it was designed. Rosa Loves personalizes the t-shirts even further by printing each respective story on the inside of the shirt—right over your heart.

Rosa Loves has tailored charitable giving in such a way that you know who you’ve helped—and gives a new meaning to wearing your heart on your sleeve.

I can’t wait for me and D’s t-shirts to arrive (no…we didn’t get matching shirts, and he doesn’t know which one I got him, so I can’t show you yet.). I can tell you for sure that this won’t be my last purchase from Rosa Loves. I so love them. How appropriate.

[Jam of the Day]: Mew, Comforting Sounds

The Helen Bamber Foundation

I know it’s Halloween, a day full of lots of fun oddities and too much sugar.

But I was turned on to the Helen Bamber Foundation today by way of the Denver Egotist and have become captivated by it. It seems a bit like a sign for me, as I spent most of the day preparing new campaign materials for my company’s 2008 charitable giving drive.

The Helen Bamber Foundation is a UK-based human rights organization that works to combat human trafficking, as well as to help victims of gross human rights violations. Their new PSA, which stars actress Emma Thompson, is generating buzz for its dark yet moving storyline. (Watch and read about the spot)

If you’re bighearted enough to give from your pocket this season but can’t decide which organization to support, I urge you to consider the Helen Bamber Foundation.

I’ll try to end tonight’s posting with something more lighthearted. But just because it’s Halloween doesn’t mean we can’t devote serious thought to something, right?