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The She’s the First Store is OPEN!

Our She’s the First Store is open, just in time for the 2nd Annual Tie-Dye Cupcake Bake Off and holiday season!

It’s amazing to see the 3 winning and 1 runner-up t-shirts from our design contest with HerCampus.com come to life! You can also find other fun She’s the First accessories, like our signature Asha Patel Designs ID bracelet and handcrafted cupcake necklace by Ash Tree Designs.

This year, we also introduced a long-sleeve thermal option! Shirts are made high-quality by Custom Organics, Inc. We had a blast modeling them in a special photo shoot at Georgetown Cupcakes in SoHo (111 Mercer Street — go visit if you’re in NYC!) and Washington Square Park.

Sign up a team & host a tie-dye cupcake bake sale during our Bake-Off this November 12-18! We need 200 teams in all 50 states to meet our goal, and we’re getting close! Then, place your t-shirt order as soon as you can to ensure delivery by the time of your sale. They make a perfect team uniform. (Custom Organics wlil ship orders out 2x a week during cupcake season!)

Remember She’s the First products keep giving the gift of education! SHOP HERE!

Special thanks to Wix for helping us launch, Kate Lord for the beautiful photos, Georgetown Cupcakes SoHo, and Edward at Custom Organics!

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Congrats to Winners of Our T-Shirt Design Contest!

Results of the She’s the First & Her Campus 2nd Annual T-Shirt Design Contest, in support of our Tie-Dye Cupcake Bake-Off campaign, are in! The judges – Annie Wang of Her Campus, Genevieve Tabios, the She’s the First Art Director, and Preetha, a student at our India partner school, Shanti Bhavan — have deliberated, and they factored in your votes! She’s the First will be selling the winning designs online for tie-dye cupcake bakers all over the U.S. to wear this November. AND 100% of the profits will go towards sponsoring girls in our partner schools!

The designers of the winning t-shirts will receive “Keep Calm, Have a Cupcake” pillows from Dormify AND a gift bag from Jane Cosmetics.

So without further ado here are your TOP T-SHIRT DESIGNS:

Kelsey Thorn – Bake a Change

Ally Koss- One Cupcake Can Change the World

 

Melissa – Cupcakes Are Muffins That Believe in Miracles

Runner- up: Christine – Baking a Change in the World, One Cupcake at a Time

A VERY special honorable mention goes to Jancy Paul Vincent, one of our students from India, for her design:

Thank you to everyone who participated and voted! The t-shirt store will launch on shesthefirst.org in just a couple weeks.

Don’t forget to sign up to host a bake sale in November if you haven’t already! 100% of proceeds will sponsor girls in our partner schools located in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

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Design the T-Shirts Cupcake Bakers Nationwide Will Wear!

One of the winning designs from the 2011 t-shirt design contest!

Want to add “feel-good fashion designer” to your resume? She’s the First and Her Campus challenge YOU (or your most talented graphic designer friends!) to take our campaign t-shirts to the next level, for this fall’s 2nd annual Tie-Dye Cupcake Bake-Off.

Not only do the tie-dye cupcake bakers order these shirts to wear at their bake sales (thus, seen in photos that go all over their Facebook pages!), but most importantly, 100% of the profits directly sponsor girls’ education in our eight partner countries. Here’s when and how to enter:

1. Download the template to design on here (it’s a blank white square, so when it opens, right click and “save as”)

2. Upload your design to our custom Facebook tab (made possible by Wix Social!) between September 4-17th, and tell your friends to “like” it! Note: It has to be a JPG, and if it doesn’t go through, just make the file size smaller!

How will we choose the winner? We’ve got three superstar judges and YOU will give your input based on Facebook likes. (Your votes do influence the outcome!) We’ll announce the winners by September 20th.

"Keep Calm, Have a Cupcake" pillow from Dormify, a gift for the 3 winners

What do the winners get? In addition to the glory of having their work worn by world-changing bakers all across the U.S., they’ll win a “Keep Calm, Have a Cupcake” pillow from Dormify. There will also be a gift bag of Jane Cosmetics makeup awarded.

Need inspiration? Check out the photo album of t-shirts designed last year here. Or, surf Pinterest (follow our Boards here!)

Winning t-shirts will be available for purchase around October 11th – just in time for the first-ever International Day of the Girl (for which we’re organizing the XX Summit!)

Spread the word to your networks with this tweet:

Design a cute cupcake t-shirt & help sponsor girls’ education with @shesthefirst & @hercampus! Enter on Facebook: http://ow.ly/diCWF

Ready? Set…design!!!

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Plan It Forward!


We have a MAJOR announcement: Merck is donating $25,000 to She’s the First as part of its Plan It Forward campaign launching on HerCampus.com! By exploring the Plan It Forward Course Creator and visiting the Pay It Forward section, you can learn about the donation and help us make a positive impact on the lives of girls worldwide, while working toward mapping out your own goals.

Why the Plan It Forward partnership is so fantastic:

  • She’s the First is always thinking about the future, so it’s a natural fit! We inspire young adult women (and we think the guys are listening, too!) to strive for what they can be the first to do. With an education, however, it’s possible to break the barriers that stand between us and our visionary goals.
  • Dreams can only go so far–you need to take action to make them a reality! Merck commissioned a survey and found that among 700 women between 18-25 one-third admitted they didn’t know where to start when it comes to putting a plan in place for their future. We love that this campaign helps you break your personal goals down into actionable steps. (I carry a planner with my daily and weekly to-do list around constantly, but haven’t formally jotted down a long-term plan, so I’m excited to test this out myself!) HerCampus.com will enable you to outline your steps and set personal deadlines online, and then you can download the roadmap, print, and post it somewhere you’ll see every day.
  • To spread the message even further, check out which celebrity is serving as a “Plan-Bassador” campaign spokesperson! Hint: She was the child star of The Cosby Show and is now headed to Broadway — that definitely required a plan to achieve.
  • Finally, She’s the First is planning it forward right along with you! This year, our ambitious goal is to raise $157,000 for girls’ sponsorships in the developing world. We do this by working side-by-side with students in the U.S., who rise as strong, confident leaders through our campus network, our grassroots event campaigns (like those famous cupcake bake sales and poetry nights), and we’re now even beginning to pilot after-school activities with high schools in the underserved areas near our campus chapters. Together, we are creatively improving the communities around us and the world at large. Tweet us at @shesthefirst or comment below if you find this helpful, and remember we’re here to support you!

 

Thank you Merck for paying it forward while planning it forward!

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Shop for the Cupcake Cause!

She’s the First has truly put tie-dye cupcakes on the map this fall — and as a result, we’re going to sponsor girls’ education around the globe! If you’re not baking this November 1-8, there are still ways you can support the cause and our goal to raise $20,000.

We partnered with four fellow members of the Young Entrepreneur Council — Annie Wang, Windsor Hanger, and Stephanie Kaplan, who are the co-founders of Her Campus, and Rebecca Zorowitz, Partner/VP of Ooh La La Candy — brought these cupcake products to life!

At the Her Campus shop, you can order any of these 7 t-shirt shirts, all made by students who won our design contest. The shirts are $16 and She’s the First receives 100% of the profits (nearly $7 of each shirt).

Photo by Kate Lord

Then, for those looking to send a candy gram surprise to a friend, family member, or business client, Ooh La La Candy has candy cupcakes! 50% of the $6.95 cupcakes goes to sponsor girls with She’s the First.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you do purchase these, be sure to tweet us pics we can share!

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Kelsey’s Skidmore College Team is Baking Up Big Ideas!

Kelsey Thorn

Hey bakers,

My name is Kelsey Thorn and, in just a few short weeks, I’ll be spearheading Her Campus Skidmore’s Tie-Dye-Cupcake Bake-Off Sale in honor of She’s the First, with my baking partner in crime, Audrey Nelson. I was first introduced to the cupcake campaign when Her Campus & She’s the First partnered this past summer. Shortly after, I was encouraged to submit a handful of designs to the Tie-Dye Cupcake Bake-Off T-shirt design contest that ran on HerCampus.com. Amazingly, two of my designs won and these simple designs now have a chance to make a huge difference!

One of Kelsey's winning T-shirt designs! These will be sold on HerCampus.com & donate profits toward girls' sponsorships via She's the First.

Bringing the She’s the First cause to Saratoga Springs for the first time, we have high hopes to make a big difference. Representing Her Campus and She’s the First simultaneously, we’ll host a pre-sale at the end of October to raise awareness about the cupcake cause and excite the Saratoga community to help sponsor girls’ education in Ethiopia. The pre-sale won’t offer the infamously special tie-dye cupcakes because we’re saving those for the main event… but we’ll offer a lot of other homemade deliciousness alongside information and facts about the She’s the First mission. We also hope—fingers crossed—to obtain pre-orders for Tie-Dye Cupcake Bake Off tees (they’ll soon be sold on HerCampus.com for $15 each) during our pre-sale. Then we’ll order then and have them waiting to be picked up during our big tie-dye cupcake sale in early November. We hope the opportunity to pre-order tees will motivate people in our community to kick off the fundraising fun with the well-worth-it $15 purchase.

Welcome to Skidmore!

Among the many things we’ve done and are doing in preparation for the sale is the creation of thank you cupcake ‘receipts.’ With every cupcake sold, the little ‘receipts’ will be a token reminder to the purchaser that their cupcake makes a difference and that, with their purchase, they’ve helped to sponsor girls’ education. I designed these receipts with the intention of really getting the message across that one cupcake makes a difference and, together, we do change the world one cupcake at a time!

Needless to say, we are SO excited and I’m anxious to see what other ideas we ‘bake’ up with before the big day(s)! United through this cause, I wish the best of luck to all you bakers! I’m ready to prove that it’s more than a cupcake…are you?

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The Winning Cupcake T-Shirt Designs!

Thank you to everyone who entered and voted on entries to the Tie-Dye Cupcake T-Shirt Design Contest with Her Campus! The judges — Annie Wang & She’s the First-sponsored student Jancy in India — reviewed them all and picked their 7 favorite designs, factoring in your likes and comments! Here are the winners! Click “read more” to see them and find out what happens next…
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Meet the Cupcake T-Shirt Contest Judges!

Prizes for 7 contest winners: Besides knowing your shirts are sending girls to school, win this inspiring PB Teen pillow!

Wondering how we’ll possibly choose seven winners from all these cute entries to the She’s the First T-Shirt Design Contest with HerCampus.com? The winning designs will be made onto t-shirts sold in our CustomOrganics.net store, and 100% of the profits will benefit our sponsorship fund for the girls’ at our partner schools! (Winners also get these cute “Change the World” pillows from PBTeen!)

Knowing it would be hard to pick favorites, we asked Annie Wang, Creative Director and Co-Founder at HerCampus.com, and Jancy, the top art student at Shanti Bhavan in India, whom She’s the First sponsors, to judge.

Annie Wang

Up first, we have Annie, one of the co-founders of HerCampus.com and a really talented web designer!  Annie is currently the Creative Director of Her Campus, and if you love their layout like we do, you have Annie to thank for it.  Annie is currently on a leave of absence from Harvard, where she was majoring in Visual and Environmental Studies (she’s definitely qualified to pick out a winning design!), so that she can work at Her Campus full-time.  She’s been named on some pretty prestigious lists in the past year, including Inc. magazines’ ’30 Under 30 Coolest Young Entrepreneurs’ and Glamour‘s ’20 Amazing Young Women.’  To hear more from Annie, you can check out some of the articles she’s written for Her Campus here!

Jancy

Jancy is probably familiar to those of you who have been following She’s the First for awhile now!  Jancy is from India and attends the Shanti Bhavan school there; this year she’ll be a senior.  She is also very qualified to pick a winning design — she’s studying art and hopes to become a fashion designer someday.  Jancy is a big fan of color, so if you haven’t entered your design yet, make sure it’s bold and bright!  In her free time, Jancy likes to draw and to create jewelry,

Remember, you still have almost a week to get your entries in! For full details about the contest and how to enter, check out hercampus.com/cupcakes-contest.  We know we can’t wait to check out your designs, and we’re sure Jancy and Annie feel the same way!

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Contest: Design Cupcake T-Shirts to Help Sponsor Girls!

At school, t-shirts are so much more than work-out clothes – they are billboards for the organizations you belong to, and occasionally, they brag about epic achievements like finishing a marathon or winning the state championship. But t-shirts can also represent causes you care about, unify a team, and their purchase can make a priceless difference in a girl’s life. The She’s the First Tie-Dye Cupcake Bake-Off t-shirts will do all this…and you will be involved in creating them!

one of the shirt templates you can design!

HerCampus.com and She’s the First are hosting a t-shirt design contest for the cutest, coolest cupcake illustrations…download the templates from HerCampus.com (starting Wednesday, August 24) and design in full-color on the front of the shirt. You have two weeks to doodle (Illustrator/Photoshop files preferred) and upload your entry as a JPG to www.hercampus.com/cupcakes-contest. Her Campus readers and She’s the First fans will vote on their favorites, and the top 7 will be printed on t-shirts to be sold online, leading up to the Tie-Dye Cupcake Bake-Off on Nov. 1-8! Best part: 100% of the profits from these shirts will go to the sponsorship fund, sending girls to school who otherwise could not afford their chance in the classroom.

"Change the World" pillow from PBTeen, which the 7 winning illustrators get!

You’ll also win a “Change the World” pillow from PB Teen — because that’s exactly what you’re doing! Winning entries will be determined by popular vote and by judging of Her Campus’s Creative Director and Co-Founder Annie Wang and, all the way from India, 12th grader Jancy, whom She’s the First sponsored in 2010 at the Shanti Bhavan school—she’s the top art student!

Ready? Set…go!!!

p.s. Why tie-dye? Read this inspiring story about the cupcake that started it all!

p.p.s. UBER IMPORTANT!! Is your school having a Tie-Dye Cupcake bake sale? Sign up!!

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WIE Symposium Encourages Women to Change the World

[Editor's note: This is a guest blog post from Gennifer Delman, a junior at Hofstra University, who reports back from an event that She's the First was proud to attend, the first WIE Symposium in NYC last Monday.]

Energy darted around the room as women of all ages gathered at Skylight West in N.Y.C on Monday, September 20 to join forces at the first ever Women: Inspiration and Enterprise Symposium. Hosted by Sarah Brown, Donna Karan, and Arianna Huffington, the day was full of ideas, words of wisdom, and the celebration of girls and women.

At WIE: She's the First campaign developer Devin Tomb, Gennifer Delman, with HerCampus founders & supporters to their right.

As a 20-year-old junior journalism major at Long Island’s Hofstra University, it was an absolute honor and privilege to be selected as one of 50 Young Champions to attend this magnificent conference. During my time at school, I have immersed myself in organizations I care about, including magazine networking group Ed2010 and online women’s magazine hercampus.com. But it wasn’t until I interned for Tammy Tibbetts earlier this year that I learned of She’s the First. Ever since then I knew I had to be a part of it… but how?

When I found out that STF would be reaching a wider audience by establishing branches at colleges and universities across the nation, I knew I had found my place. I had already been a part of two campus chapters of a national organization, and starting something that has a global effect at Hofstra sounded like a dream come true. After applying and being selected to attend WIE, I also knew that I found the perfect source of inspiration before I embark on my STF journey and set up my own chapter.

Some of the 50 Young Champions at WIE: Liz Tarpey of Georgia Tech; Yifan Zhang, creator of Styleta.com; Natalie MacNeil, founder of ShesTakesontheWorld.com; Tammy Tibbetts of STF; Gennifer Delman

Here’s a glimpse of what I observed: The beautiful actress Elizabeth Banks discussing women’s roles in Hollywood. One of my role models, Cathleen Black, revealing her rise to success in the magazine biz. Actress Ashley Judd sharing her experiences traveling the world and speaking to women who have endured terrible pain just to survive. The selfless Melinda Gates opening up her heart and telling her first-hand stories. The hercampus.com founders speaking about the power of youth innovation, something STF is a prime example of. An organization built by young innovators that aims to inspire and provide the means for youth innovators across the globe… that’s a powerful thing.

All of it was so eye-opening and made me feel connected to everyone in the room. The division between CEO, model, and celebrity was suddenly torn down. We were (and are) all women and we have power. If we harness our individual power, we can come together and help those with fewer privileges to do the same. I also realized that our youth is not a limitation — it’s an advantage. Don’t ever feel like you don’t have the ability to make a positive impact. Every woman has the capability if they have the desire.

Nthabieseng is so awesomely ambitious, she once got to meet Shakira!

But of everything I soaked in at WIE, it was the words of a 12-year-old South African schoolgirl named Nthabieseng Tshbalala that resonated with me the most. Tears formed in my eyes when Sarah Brown asked Nthabieseng what she would tell policymakers that girls need most. She eloquently replied, “You’re here because you have education. And you’re here because you have education. We need education.”

We don’t have to do this alone. If we have a dream, an idea to make this world a better place for our children and their children to inherit, let’s not sit around and just think about it. Let’s change the world together. Who’s with me? – Gennifer Delman

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