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St. Baldrick’s Foundation Announces 2011 T-shirt Design Contest Sponsored by WARHEADS®

June 4, 2010 St. Baldrick’s Foundation Announces 2011 T-shirt Design Contest Sponsored by WARHEADS®

The St. Baldrick's Foundation is excited to announce the second annual design contest for the Foundation's 2011 t-shirts. The contest requests entrants to design a t-shirt for the expected 60,000 St. Baldrick's shavees, volunteers and donors in 2011. The contest will run from Monday, June 7 to Sunday, August 15 at midnight PST. The winning design will be announced on Thursday, September 9 on stbaldricks.org and in a national press release.

The St. Baldrick's Foundation is seeking a design that captures their mission, their commitment to childhood cancer research, and also the excitement and heartfelt spirit of head-shaving events. All entrants are encouraged to incorporate the theme - "Let's Conquer Kids' Cancer" - into their proposed design.

For complete contest details and rules, please see below.

The winning design will be used on the more than 60,000 t-shirts worn by St. Baldrick's shavees, volunteers, and donors during 2011. The winning designer will not only see their design printed on more than 60,000 t-shirts; but they will also receive a prize pack from first-time contest sponsor WARHEADS® that includes a 25 oz bag of WARHEADS® Extreme Sour Hard Candy, a WARHEADS® t-shirt, bandana, beanie and waterbottle. WARHEADS® will also provide the winner with a $250 cash prize and make a $250 donation to the Foundation in the designer's name. The second and third place submissions will also receive the WARHEADS® prize pack and their designs will be sold in the St. Baldrick's CafePress store

This marks the second year WARHEADS® has supported the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. In 2010, the brand sponsored the “WARHEADS® for Baldheads” Team from Centennial Middle School in Boulder, Colo., which raised over $13,000 for the cause. “Last year we reached out to our more than 200,000 Facebook fans to help raise donations to support the team and this important cause,” states WARHEADS® Consumer Marketing Manager, Tony Porter. “We even heard from childhood cancer survivors on our WARHEADS® Facebook page thanking us for our involvement. That just reinforced our core belief that our brand is about more than just sour candy that we can use the power of WARHEADS® to give back to our most devoted fans – kids.”

This year is a landmark year for the St. Baldrick's Foundation in its efforts to fund research for childhood cancer. The Foundation has already raised more than $20.1 million in 2010 – surpassing its best year of fundraising, and looks forward to funding more research than ever before! Since 2000, St. Baldrick's has raised more than $89 million for childhood cancer research by shaving more than 145,000 heads – including more than 12,000 women and 28,500 children – at more than 3,200 events worldwide.

Become a part of the movement and submit your design for the 2011 t-shirt!

Contest Guidelines

All entrants must submit designs that adhere to the following:

The St. Baldrick's Foundation Logo must be used in the design and can only be reproduced in the Foundation's colors. Appropriate St. Baldrick's Foundation logos may be downloaded below.

No copyrighted images may be used. If photos or original artwork is involved we will need written permission by the image owner to reproduce the design.

Designs should be 300dpi at 100% of the size we will be printing (approximately 10”x10” for t-shirts.)

Designs should use CMYK or RGB.

Designs will be placed on navy blue, gray blue, or gunmetal gray t-shirts and a design that compliments this color choice will be appreciated. Sample colors are available below.

Designs are only being considered for the front of the t-shirts. Artwork will not be featured on the back of shirts.

Designs should be submitted in JPGs or PDF format and can be emailed to media@stbaldricks.org. If your design must be submitted on a disc, please email media@stbaldricks.org to inquire mailing information.

Your design will be judged on creativity, relevancy to the cause or Foundation, it’s effectiveness in drawing interest to St. Baldrick's and our mission.

The winning design will become sole property of the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to be used in all media in perpetuity, at the Foundation’s discretion.

There is no age limit for artist submitted t-shirt designs; however, children under age 18 must have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter the competition.

Contest entry is open to all geographical regions.

Designs will be judged by a panel consisting of St. Baldrick's Foundation staff and board members; volunteers; honored families; and donors. -All entries due no later than August 15, 2010.

All inquiries regarding the contest can be submitted to Rachel Bond, Marketing Specialist for St. Baldrick's Foundation.

The Rules

By entering the contest you agree to the Contest Rules, as contained in this announcement. The selection of the contest winner is the sole decision of the St. Baldrick's Foundation and its appointed judges. Each entrant consents to allowing the St. Baldrick's Foundation to publicize his or her name.

All Submissions become the sole property of St. Baldrick’s Foundation. By transmitting Submissions to this site, you grant St. Baldrick's (a) a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, assignable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use such materials in conjunction with St. Baldrick's efforts, including events or publications, in any media; and (b) an exclusive right to the first publication of such Submission. Prior to usage, you are required to notify St. Baldrick's of each category of use and include an attribution as follows: “First published by St. Baldrick's Foundation,” unless St. Baldrick's requests that its name be removed from any such publications. Selected Submission may be posted on St. Baldrick's website and St. Baldrick's reserves the right to reject outside usage if that usage is deemed to pose a material or reputational harm to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

By entering Submissions, entrants certify that their design does not violate copyright, trademark, or other rights held by third-parties.