Charity auction thread

[Nate_Laverdure]

Hello, friends.

Please feel welcome to join this open community charity auction by posting in this thread.

My sincere thanks to @billfred for the inspiration to start this thread, I really appreciate you.

Two blue banner tote bags

Two handmade tote bags made from real blue banner material won by a FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team in 2022.

• Exterior fabric is blue vinylized nylon, interior fabric is tan canvas.
• Dimensions are 11" wide x 6" deep x 11" high.
• 100% of net proceeds to RAINN (rainn.org), which sponsors the National Sexual Assault Hotline (1-800-656-4673)

eBay listing

eBay listing

We previously put two of these tote bags into the 2022 IRI Charity Auction and they did pretty well IIRC. Thanks to the two winners for your support, as well as to the IRI organizers who selected Riley Children’s Mental Health and Behavioral Health program as the charity for that auction.

[wilsonmw04]

My Wife needs a new bag.

[Billfred]

Nate,

Thank you for taking this seed of an idea and running with it. I’ve long been bad about stockpiling FIRST items because simply tossing them in the Goodwill bin felt wrong. I’ll probably list more, but when I discovered this one flipping through the closet it felt right to show some New Jersey love.

Royal Hawaiian Creations Hawaiian Shirt Orange FIRST Robotics 25 NWT 2XL | eBay

This is an authentic Hawaiian shirt from 25, their 2008 edition. I got it as a thank-you for loaning 1618’s 2007 robot to a pre-rookie team for Brunswick Eruption (yes, that meant driving it from South Carolina to New Jersey–I was wilder back then). But since I went to the University of South Carolina, an orange-heavy shirt wasn’t exactly the thing to wear around campus. So I stashed it in my closet.

Like Nate’s bags, 100% of the money is going to RAINN. I hope 25’s gracious gift a lifetime ago (at least for many current FIRST participants) does a lot of good here.