So we went to Daniel's Imprinting Shop on University Boulevard and made our order for the t-shirts!!  This is a basic design of what the shirts will look like except they are short sleeve.  We wanted to go with a basic natural-looking color to go along with the "Hurricane Sandy" name.  This design was originally supposed to go on the back, but it was a lot more expensive to print on both the front and back, so we decided that a front design would be better. We are planning to sell these shirts for $15, so the more profit that can go to us, and to Hurricane Sandy victims, the better.  By going to one side and changing brands, we got the price per shirt reduced from around $9.37 to $5.87 which we are very happy about!  We ordered, 10 each of small, medium, and large, and ordered 5 XL, totaling 35 shirts.  We wanted to start relatively small because we can always buy more if we need to.  We will definitely get them in the week after Thanksgiving break, which is great!  We will get an invoice of the shirt in an email tomorrow, so we will just have to approve it before they can begin printing!  We are very excited to start this second part of out venture and are looking forward to selling!

After Hurricane Sandy hit, we felt that there was a new need for us to work towards.  Therefore, we decided to sell T-shirts and donate half of the profits to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy.  We will donate to the American Red Cross which is doing a lot to help the people who lost everything.  Our group member, Bill, is from New Jersey and his neighborhood was hit really hard by the storm, so this venture is very important to all of us.  We feel that since a lot of people at JMU were affected by the storm, this new direction will appeal to a lot of students here.  Bill is working on a design for our t-shirts and we will hopefully bring to an imprinting shop soon.  We hope to have our shirts available for selling when we get back from Thanksgiving break.  

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