[NFBF-Melbourne] FW: [NABS-L] Fwd: [NAGDU] Announcing the 2022 snarky guide dog T-shirt

Camille Tate ctate2076 at att.net
Sat Jul 30 16:53:56 UTC 2022


For your information.

 Sincerely, 
Camille Tate 
2nd Vice President, National Federation of the Blind of Florida 
President, Melbourne Space Coast Chapter, National Federation of the Blind of Florida 
Phone: 321 372 4899 

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Subject: [NABS-L] Fwd: [NAGDU] Announcing the 2022 snarky guide dog T-shirt

Check out this azing fundraiser!

Shelbi Felter B.A.
College of education CSULB
Don’t let anyone dull your sparkle sparkle’s


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From: Heather Bird via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Date: July 29, 2022 at 4:58:16 PM PDT
Cc: Heather Bird <heather.l.bird at gmail.com>
Subject: [NAGDU] Announcing the 2022 snarky guide dog T-shirt
Reply-To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>

Greetings,



We are happy to announce the pre-order for our 2022 Snarky Guide Dog T-Shirts has begun.



This T-shirt is being sold as a fundraiser for the New York Association of Guide Dog Users. however, as was the case last year, the shirt does not contain the logo of the New York Association of Guide Dog Users, the National Association of Guide Dog Users, the NFB, or any other organization. We encourage individuals to join organizations such as the NFB, the ACB, etc., or the specialized divisions within such organizations, such as NAGDU, GDUI, etc. However, we wanted to provide a T-shirt that would have appealed to, and be applicable to, guide and service dog handlers, no matter what organization(s) they choose to belong to and no matter what school their dog is from. Upon request, we’re happy to provide information about the New York Association of Guide Dog Users, and we certainly wouldn’t refuse a donation at any time that is not related to the purchase of a T-shirt. However, this fundraising campaign is purely based on our annual T-shirt sale.



This year’s shirt is made of the same material as last year’s shirt. That is, thin, of medium to high quality, and very soft. This year we have opted for a shirt that is black, rather than blue. Most of the writing on the shirt this year is produced in puff ink, just like the writing last year, although our color is a very light, very bright blue. In addition to the puff ink there is also some glitter ink in silver. The distribution of the different inks and colors will be as follows:

A black shirt feature’s the following message “It isn’t dog fur its guide dog GLITTER!” This message is presented on several lines, with a left alignment, so that it appears as the body of a letter, albeit a very short letter, where a graphic appears in the positioning, preceded by a dash, such that it looks like it serves as a signature for the letter. The graphic is a large paw print, facing with the toes upward, with braille lettering contained within the paw print, the letters LOVE on the toes from left to right, and the word DOG inside the heel of the paw print. The paw print, the braille within it, the – preceding it, and the word GLITTER! are all presented in the silver glitter ink, with the rest being presented in the light blue puff ink described above. The format of the shirts makes it look as if the message is being sent from the guide dog to the general public, having been signed with a paw print reading love dog, Where dog functions as the sender, and love functions as the degreeting, such as sincerely, cordially, etc. this T-shirt is a little bit more flashy than last year, but we have selected colors and formatting that tend to be quite gender neutral, and could read a little bit on the masculine side, with the black, blue, and silver color combination.



We strive to use messages that are fun, so that our purchasers can enjoy wearing the shirt, so that our potential buyers will want to purchase the shirt in the first place, and so that the public is more likely to not only enjoy the shirt but be open minded and taken its message. While it is true that it is not acceptable to bring a truly filthy dog into a public place, regardless of the ADA and other such laws, it is equally true that a well-groomed and clean dog, will shed a small amount of fur. This is not the toxic substance, or menace to society, which some peoples over the top reactions would seem to indicate. We want to send a message, in a fun and snarky way, that a few guard hairs from the coat of a dog that is clean, well-behaved, well groomed, and working hard, should be seen in a neutral, or even perhaps, in a fun or appreciative way by those who happen to be blessed with a small amount of guide dog glitter in their life when they encounter a guide dog team.



This year our shirts will be a little less expensive if you purchase more than one. A single shirt will be $22, and any additional shirts will be only $20 apiece.



If you would like to purchase a shirt, you can use PayPal to NYAGDUDivision at gmail.com. If you do not have a PayPal account, and would like help setting one up, please feel free to reach out and we will help you with that.



If you do not have, and would not like to have, a PayPal account, please contact me at Heather.L.Bird at gmail.com <heather.l.bird at gmail.com> so that we can work out an alternative payment arrangement.



These prices include the price of the shirt, whether you need an extra small up to a 4X. While we do pay a slight up charge to the manufacturers of the shirts for plus size shirts, we do not pass this cost along to the purchasers of our shirts, no matter what size they happen to be. This cost also already includes the shipping, and there will be no additional shipping cost, whether you purchase one shirt or 10, whether you are a mile away from us or all the way across the country.



We are utilizing a pre-order. Such as the one we used last year, which will be three weeks in length this year, as we had many individuals who found out about the shirts after we had already placed our order with the manufacturer. Many of which took place within 1 to 7 days after we ended the pre-order.



The pre-order period begins today, Friday, July 29. Therefore, will end, with us placing our order for the shirts, on Friday, August 19th.



The turnaround time for the shirts to be completed should be like last year, or shorter, as some supply chain issues have been improving, and we will not have winter weather to contend with to impact the shipping of the shirts to our manufacturer, or our shipping of the shirts out to those who purchase them. Everyone who purchases a shirt will receive an email when we order the shirts, another email when we receive the shirts, and an email when their shirt is shipped.



Last year, we purchased the type of shipping that included tracking information. Out of around 90 shirts ordered, we had a grand total of one shirt that did not arrive. And the tracking information for that shirt, didn’t clarify things for us, as the date and time on which it was delivered, did not enable the individual to find the shirt which may have been misdelivered, porch pirated or otherwise gone astray.



My experience with the blindness community, in particular, the guide dog using community within the blind community, has been overwhelmingly positive, so we will be operating on the honor system. This year we will not be utilizing tracking information, and if you have not received your shirt within the timeframe of the estimated shipping date we sent you, please contact us, and we will do what we can to locate the shirt, and if we cannot, then we will send out a replacement.



To place an order, please send an email to NYAGDUDivision at gmail.com and let us know the following information:

·         Your full name as you would like it to appear on the shipping
address, especially important if you’re purchasing it as a gift and don’t want someone else living with you to open it and find it prematurely.

·         We will need your full shipping address including ZIP Code so
that we send it to the right place.

·         We need to know how many shirts you would like to order, and what
quantity of each size you need, especially if you are purchasing multiple shirts, and even more so if you are purchasing multiple shirts in a variety of sizes.

·         Please provide us with your email address that you would like
notifications to be sent to, especially if this email address is not the one from which you are emailing us initially, otherwise we will simply capture that from your email.

·         We would also like a phone number, so that we can reach out to
you if we need to update you on anything specific to your shipment that will not go out in the large, blind, carbon copy email that will go to all individuals in a particular batch of shirts being shipped.



You can also send questions to this email address, but if you need help specifically with arranging a different payment method than PayPal, please reach out to me at Heather.L.Bird at gmail.com <heather.l.bird at gmail.com>.
Once you have sent us your information, please send your payment, to PayPal at the same address to it you sent your email that is NYAGDUDivision at gmail.com.



Would you like to win a free T-shirt, or, an additional shirt for free to your order? Then please see below.



If you would like to be entered into a drawing for one free T-shirt, in the size of your choice, please answer the following short survey questions, in an email to Heather.L.Bird at gmail.com <heather.l.bird at gmail.com>. I promise, folks, these are not hard, or invasive questions. And if you answer all of them, your name will be entered into a drawing for a free shirt, and we will conduct that drawing before we order the shirts, so that we can add to the order the free shirt in the size of the individual’s choice who has one said shirt. you do not need to be purchasing one of our shirts this year to fill out the survey and be entered to receive a free shirt from this year’s order.

1.      Last year, many people missed out on ordering a shirt, or have
expressed that they wish they had ordered an additional shirt. If we were to do a re-print of last year shirt, would you be wanting to purchase one?
Just indicate a number from zero to however many you might want to buy, if we were to do such a reorder of last year shirt, in addition to this year shirt. Obviously, zero represents that you would not want a shirt, and whatever number above zero you might indicate would let us know roughly how many people might be wanting approximately how many shirts from a re-order.

2.      This year shirt is worded in a way that is very specific to Guide
Dogs and Guide Dog handlers. We have an alternative shirt design, with the same message, and logo, except, that it substitutes the words Service Dog Sparkle in place of Guide Dog Glitter.  You’ve got to love the alliteration. Please indicate with a number, zero representing no interest, and other numerical values representing the number of shirts that you might want to purchase, or, the number of people you know, who are service dog handlers, who might appreciate an alternative printing of this your shirt, that says service, rather than Guide, dog on it.

3.      We will never harvest anyone’s data, and would not in a million
years, dream of asking you to provide us with anyone’s contact information, however, you should please feel free to forward this along to anyone who might be interested, not only in a guide dog related shirt, but also in the service dog related option, so that they may, if they wish, send us their survey answers especially regarding this question and the previous question. if you know of, any lists, forums, or other venues, where advertising is allowed, this is very important, that are open to service dog handlers of all types, where we might be able to promote an alternative release of the shirt with the service dog wording, please share the name or names of such venues with us so that we might post about such an alternative release in the future. We absolutely will not post any emails advertising this or future shirts on any lists where it is indicated that either sales, or fundraisers, are not allowed. We would love to get the word out, but we do not want to cause any hassle, or extra work, for list or group moderators.



And there you have it folks, if you have any additional questions regarding this year’s T-shirt, please feel free to reach out, and please feel free to share this wherever appropriate, and with whomever you think might be interested.

Heather Bird

President

New York Association of Guide Dog Users
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