St. Baldrick's Foundation Announces 2011 T-Shirt Design Contest Sponsored by WARHEADS

    COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, June 09, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- 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 www.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. The Foundation's slogan of "Let's Conquer Kids' Cancer" is the focus of the 2011 marketing movement; all entrants are encouraged to incorporate this idea 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 50,000 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.

For more information, please visit www.stbaldricks.org and www.warheads.com.

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