This Valentines Day, Keep A Breast & Loserkids.com want to remind you to Love Your Boobies! Enter to win 1 of 5 Love Your Boobies! prize packs - Remind your friends and share away!
“We make dreams come true for children with life threatening afflictions while enriching their lives with the positive message and family of Living The Dream.”
Are you or someone you know suffering from a life-threatening illness? Here’s your chance to experience a once in a lifetime VIP Warped Tour day! Winners will go backstage, watch your favorite band from onstage and eat with the bands. You will pretty much be where the action is all day long.
Living The Dream Foundation is excited to give one worthy fan per Warped Tour stop the ultimate VIP experience. THIS COULD BE YOU!
To Write Love on Her Arms is currently 1 of 5 charities in a voting contest for $1 Million in the American Giving Awards. If TWLOHA wins, this will help them carry on their mission of investing directly into treatment and recovery, as well as taking hope and help on the road in more creative ways than ever before. Beyond that, it will give them the chance to speak to a national television audience December 10 when the American Giving Awards airs on NBC. To learn more about what they would do with the money, click here. You can vote for TWLOHA once daily through December 8.
As a reward & as a fun excursion, Kevin Lyman of the Vans Warped Tour sent the most eco friendly members of the 2011 festival: band, stage manger, non-profit tent, tour manager, ect to Zihuatanejo Mexico to help baby turtles reach the sea at Playa Viva.
There we took newly hatched turtles and helped them get past questionable crabs and daunting seagulls and helped point them in the right direction when heading the wrong way. Over the grand 3 day experience our team helped 1,500 turtles. It was wonderful. Thank you David & Julia, Johnny & Stella of Playa Viva and thank you Kevin.
Our friends from Keep A Breast are currently out on the road on the NO GUTS NO GLORY Tour with Warped veterans Miss May I, Pierce The Veil including Woe Is Me, The Amity Affliction and Letlive with their Traveling Education Booth educating music fans about the importance of breast cancer prevention and early detection! To continue fueling KAB’s prevention and education programs and so they can continue to educate young people all year long, they are asking for the Warped community’s help raise $20,000 this November and help spread the word!
Our friends from Keep A Breast are currently out on the road on the NO GUTS NO GLORY Tour with Warped veterans Miss May I, Pierce The Veil including Woe Is Me, The Amity Affliction and Letlive with their Traveling Education Booth educating music fans about the importance of breast cancer prevention and early detection! To continue fueling KAB's prevention and education programs and so they can continue to educate young people all year long, they are asking for the Warped community's help raise $20,000 this November and help spread the word! To help them reach their goal, the NO GUTS NO GLORY Tour has donated and will autograph the official NO GUTS NO GLORY Tour backdrop for KAB to giveaway to one lucky fan at the end of the tour!
For a chance to be that lucky fan and to enter all you have to do is TEXT BOOBIES to 80088 to donate $5! For more info and rules about KAB'S Text2Donate BOOBIES Campaign & Contest head here - Msg & data rates may apply. Terms -
On July 25th, Warped spent a day off from tour working with Blue Water Baltimore at the Academy for College & Career Exploration, in Hampden, MD. More than 100 Warped staff, bands and local volunteers worked together to dug up a lot behind the school to create a green space full of conservation landscaping that can not only be used as an beautiful outdoor classroom, but will also help to ensure that groundwater stays as clean as possible.
We recently checked in with our partners in Maryland, and wanted to share some photos of the space before and after!! Since we were there - students have continued the effort, planting trees, perennials and next month will dig a rain garden. Congrats and great work everyone!!
This summer the Keep A Breast Foundation and the Vans Warped Tour celebrated 10 years on the road together educating young people about the importance of breast cancer prevention. Check out this video to see the Keep A Breast Girlz Garage in action and the impact KAB has had on the lives of concert-goers, bands and tour founder, Kevin Lyman himself! For more info head to keep-a-breast.org or facebook.com/keepabreast.
National nonprofit Natural High will be honoring NaturalHigh.TV celeb Cassadee Pope (Hey Monday) at its 11th annual Sunset Splash Gala on October 28th in La Jolla, CA.
During Vans Warped Tour of last year Pope revealed during an interview that her group of friends in high school were “crazy with drugs”. The lively songstress did not want to be associated with that kind of stuff and continued to make a career in mainstream music. “I have to worry about waking up everyday, singing everyday and drinking every night would probably dry out my vocal chords,” she told us.
Check out the full story HERE and Cassadee's Warped Tour Natural High interview from 2010 below
This year Living The Dream Foundation joined us on Warped Tour, Mayhem Festival, and Country Throwdown to take children who have terminal diseases out for a VIP day. They totally got the rockstar treatment!
Their day included the chance to go on-stage and backstage for all their favorite bands, eat lunch and dinner with them, and be where the action is all day long. It was an unforgettable summer for all who were involved. For more information, visit facebook.com/livingthedreamfoundation
To Write Love on Her Arms is currently in Round 1 of the American Giving Awards presented by Chase. They are up against four other charities in their category and have a chance to move onto Round 2 in December where they will be competing for $1 Million.
If TWLOHA wins, this will help them carry on their mission of investing directly into treatment and recovery, as well as bringing hope on the road.
TWLOHA's founder Jamie Tworkowski shared with Alternative Press what it would be like to bring their annual concert HEAVY AND LIGHT to cities all across America and why they believe it's an important part of the work they do. The contest runs until October 5 at noon EST, and you can vote HERE.
Invisible Children is launching a campaign that will unite artists from all genres with their fans to collectively raise $100,000 to build life-saving radio towers in Central Africa. You can see how it works and why we feel it is so important in this 3-minute "The Musician Coalition"video.
We are inviting you to jump on board with us if you find yourself inspired to do so. Here’s how it works:
1. Create a fundraising page here 2. Choose a monetary goal.
3. Join a Team – Like our Warped page 4. Invite your friends to get involved via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or E-mail.
And that’s it. As always, thanks for your support.
Krochet Kids International is a cause-driven accessories brand that is working to eradicate poverty through sustainable economic development programs and unique, one-of-a-kind products. The organization is currently working in Northern Uganda and Peru to fulfill its mission statement – to empower people to rise above poverty.
If you want to add more, it can be: 'Each crocheted product is handmade and signed by the woman who made it, allowing you to meet and thank her!
This video spot below features Krochet Kids and some of the great work they are doing
MusiCares would like to acknowledge and thank Kevin Lyman and all those associated with the Vans Warped Tour for their consistent dedication and support. Over the past 3 years, the Vans Warped Tour has generously donated $185,000 to MusiCares through a variety of fundraising efforts spearheaded by the Vans Warped Tour. Their graciousness is so appreciated and provides us with valuable resources to continue our mission of supporting music people in need! For more information regarding MusiCares or how you can help, please go to musicares.org.
Feed Our Children NOW! was a very proud sponsor of Warped Tour 2011. They collected more than 120,000 cans of food and fed thousands of children and families with children across the US and Canada. The top cities were Ventura, Toronto, and Portland.
In Ventura they collected 4,395 pounds of food for FoodShare. In Toronto Homeward Family Shelter o/a Julliette's Place, said it was their largest single donation in 21 years of operation! The tour ended in Oregon where the charity Community Action received around 4 thousand pounds of food and assorted random items they can really use from everyone on the tour.
A First Step with David McWane talks with Austin of The Canvas Foundation. Austin and his crew are the bright reason everyone on this summer's 2011 Warped Tour festival is sporting crazy paint all over their bodies. What is The Canvas Foundation's quest? All of your donations go toward getting schools in need art supplies for their students. Check it out here!
A First Step with David McWane talks with Ivory to get an inside look at the Warped Tour non-profit tent - Invisible Children. Saving young children before they are recruited into war by the Joseph Kony is their noble goal. Check it out here!
Blue Water Baltimore has been chosen as one of 20 finalists in Tom's of Maine’s 50 States for Good initiative. This means they have a chance at being awarded $50,000 or $20,000 in funding to transform unused areas of asphalt into vibrant outdoor classrooms for Baltimore City school students. To do this, they need your help: visit
www.50statesforgood.com . to vote for them every day until Sept. 13th, and please encourage your friends to do so as well. Every vote counts!
Nathan has updated numbers from the road on what each Warped shows' fans have donated to the Feed Our Children NOW! tent located in front of each stop's main entrance
Warped fans are really stepping up and with the economy as it is, your efforts make a huge difference in peoples' lives. In fact we just received a note from the director of Julliette’s Place, a shelter in Toronto that provides a safe place for those seeking refuge from abusive homes.
According to them "The amount of food that was collected on July 15, 2011 was the single largest donation we have ever received in Julliette’s Place history and we have been in operation for the last twenty-one years. This food will serve alot of women and children in the coming months"
Pretty great stuff, let's keep it up!!
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Invisible Children
uses film, creativity and social action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony's rebel war and restore LRA-affected communities in central Africa to peace and prosperity
