Your Challenge
Design a t-shirt for Whole Planet Foundation
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The challenge has ended
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February 20 - March 15, 2012
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About The Challenge
If you were given $200 to help lift yourself and your family out of poverty, how would you do it? In some developing world communities in Latin America, Africa and Asia, a loan as small as $200 can empower a woman to become an entrepreneur so that she can change her own life. Whole Planet Foundation funds poverty alleviation through microcredit in communities where Whole Foods Market sources products. The foundation has committed $26.5 million and supports more than a million people in 50 countries worldwide.
Create a design for a Whole Planet Foundation t-shirt that brings attention not only to the issue of global poverty, but also to the entrepreneurs who are lifting themselves out of poverty through their own energy, work and creativity. For inspiration, check out stories from some of the 199,659 microcredit clients who Whole Planet Foundation supports. The chosen design will be sold on Threadless, with a portion of the sales supporting these amazing entrepreneurs, and the chosen designer will get to travel abroad with Intrepid Travel!
Photo courtesy of Stephanie Hanson.
The purpose of the submissions relating to this promotion is to create a stand-alone design inspired by the challenge, not a brand tee. Your design should not have brand names or logos on it.
Up for Grabs
$750 cash
$250 Threadless gift certificate
$1500 travel voucher from Intrepid Travel®
Whole Planet Foundation
Whole Planet Foundation's mission is poverty alleviation through microcredit in communities worldwide that supply Whole Foods Market stores with products, with a focus on the developing world. Through innovative assistance for entrepreneurship - including direct microcredit loans – the foundation seeks to unleash the energy and creativity of the very poor in order to create wealth and prosperity in emerging economies.
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Now in its 23rd year of operation, Intrepid Travel is one of the world’s leading small group adventure tour operators. Wherever we go in the world, we take a responsible attitude with us. That means traveling in a way which both respects and benefits local people, their culture and the environment. You'll eat in restaurants and markets not found in guide books, stay in accommodations that capture the spirit of the place and join locals to explore their towns, shop in their markets and even stay in their homes.
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