Try Change Launch with WKYS a Success!

The Try Change launch was a success!! A big Thank You to everyone that came out to support us!! We had a great time and sold some shirts too! Also thanks to WKYS for the live broadcast with Ill Will. He really rocked it! And a big thank you also to Al and Chloe & the crew at Fashion Mechanics for hosting our launch and making us look good! A special thanks to Bobby at Capital Grind for helping us pull this together!

We also want to say thanks to the other stores that are carrying the new Try Change Line:

Capital Grind- Landmark Mall

Changes- Various locations

Indigo- Georgetown

The Shadow- Center at Forestville

And Fashion Mechanics stores in Potomac Mills, Manassas Mall & Springfield Mall

Check out the video above with Ill Will! And don't forget to rock your new TC shirts this week!

Thank you again for all of the support! Especially the family and friends that came out in the crazy traffic to see us! We wouldn't be doing this without you guys!

Vince & Chrissie

Come Celebrate the Launch of Our T-Shirt Line with WKYS 93.9 FM!! Saturday June 28th at Fashion Mechanics in Potomac Mills Mall from 3pm to 5pm.

Try Change Celebrates Launch

Saturday June 28th

(3pm to 5pm)

with WKYS 93.9 FM

at Fashion Mechanics

in Potomac Mills Mall!

Come out and celebrate the launch of our new line of t-shirts at the Fashion Mechanics store in the Potomac Mills Mall in Woodbridge, VA on Saturday June 28, 2008 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m! The launch will coincide with a remote broadcast by one of area's top radio stations WKYS 93.9 FM!

We are very excited that the new line has arrived and want to invite everyone to come out and celebrate with us! There will be free Try Change t-shirts and give-a-ways from WKYS! Come check out our shirts before they all sell out! Don't forget 10% of all proceeds go to Volunteers of America Chesapeake!

The remote broadcast will be from 3pm to 5pm at Fashion Mechanics.
Fashion Mechanics is located in Neighborhood 5 between Saks Fifth Ave & Marshalls at Potomac Mills Mall:
http://www.simon.com/mall/show_floorplan.aspx?ID=1260

Check out our press release:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1026684.htm

For those of you who haven't heard the story yet...We actually received an email from the talent coordinator for the Jay Leno Show. She saw the press release and thought our story was interesting so we are sending her a press kit and we'll see what happens from there. No promises but you could see the Try Change t-shirts on Leno!

We've also been broadcasting on YouTube (Thanks for the camera Joe!):
http://www.youtube.com/trychangellc

We want to thank everyone for all of the support we've received (along with understanding from our families). None of this could be happening without you guys!

Hope to see you out there Saturday! Call or email us if you need directions!

Vince & Chrissie
trychange@aol.com
703-261-7099

Cell Phones for Soldiers

Tonight we once again bring you another fantastic example of individuals helping others.

The Cell Phones for Soldiers program was started in April 2004 by 13-year-old Brittany Bergquist and her 12-year-old brother Robbie of Norwell, Massachusetts.

Robbie and Brittany's goal is to help our soldiers serving overseas call home. They hope to provide as many soldiers as possible with prepaid calling cards. Through generous donations and the recycling of used cell phones, Robbie and Brittany have already distributed thousands of calling cards to soldiers around the globe.

Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to turn old cell phones into more than 12 million minutes of prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas in 2008. To do so, Cell Phones for Soldiers expects to collect 15,000 cell phones each month through a network of more than 3,000 collection sites across the country.

Visit http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/ for information on how you can donate your cell phones to our soldiers.

Thanks Brittany and Robbie that everyone can make a difference!

Thank you to everyone who has offered words of encouragement and joined our blog. Let's keep the momentum going by asking your friends and blog members to join one of our communities.

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Ordinary People...

Ordinary people doing extraordinary things for others...tonight we share the story of Eric Gamble. Eric is on a mission to raise money for Angels Place by losing 25 pounds by participating in a boot camp at his gym.

ANGELS' PLACE provides a loving and caring environment for children diagnosed with life-threatening illness. Additional assistance is given to the family as they emotionally struggle for understanding while the pain and exhaustive treatments continue for the dying child. Our respite/end of life program provides ease and comfort to the whole family and help preserve the family unit.

We'll let Eric tell you all about it in his own words via his Travel Beggar blog:

I am starting Eric's 25 for Angel's Place . As many of you know, I also have promoted charity to children's charity. Often, I see and help others who are taking pledges or donations to walk/run or do something for Cancer Research, AIDS Research, Education Against Violence, etc. So I am taking donations to lose weight on behalf on Angel's Place. Right now I weigh 224.5 lbs. My Personal goal is to get to 199 lbs. The program is a 14 week program that will essentially end on August 20th

I am asking for a $25 donation or $1 a pound. You can donate via paypal right now. If you donate now, I will note the amount donated & if by some horrible chance that I don't make the 25lbs, I will refund you a dollar per pound I missed. (ie: if I only lose 20lbs by August 20th then, the Angel's Place will receive your generous $25 donation & I will refund you $5 from my own money...not the Angel's Place. Please consider helping me on my mission to become a healthy Travel Beggar as well as a way to help these great children

Visit Eric's blog or check out Angels Place's website to learn more about this wonderful organization!

Tonight we celebrate everyone who makes it their duty to make a positive difference in the world!

Help us pass along the Try Change message by joining one of our blog communities and asking your blog community members to visit our blog.

My Space

Razoo

Idealist

Change.org

MyBlogLog

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Try Change Newsletter
Thank you to all of you for your support...Never give up on your dreams!

Vince & Chrissie

Malaria No More

Malaria...you may have heard of the disease but did you know that it kills more than one million people worldwide each year? In Africa alone it kills one child every 30 seconds.

Tonight Try Change brings you news of a wonderful organization called Malaria No More. As is states on it's website their mission statement is:

Malaria No More's mission is simple: to end deaths due to malaria. The world has known how to beat this disease for more than a century, yet it remains the number one killer of children under five in Africa, claiming more than 1 million lives a year. Malaria No More works to raise the profile of the disease among the public, policymakers, and businesses, while engaging the private sector to provide life-saving bed nets and other critical interventions to families in Africa

Try Change urges you to visit there website and see how ten dollars can actually save the lives of an entire family.

One of our goals at Try Change is to put our readers in contact with organizations that are making a difference. Help us spread the Try Change message by joining one of our communities and asking your community members to do the same.

Technology has made the world smaller...it has brought us all closer together...And Together we can make a difference!

My Space

Razoo

Idealist

Change.org

MyBlogLog

BlogCatalog

Try Change Newsletter

Thank you to everyone out there for believing in us and supporting us!

Vince & Chrissie

92 Degrees and Climbing

Today was a hot one (96 degrees)...Chrissie and I were invited to a wedding at a fantastic local golf course. However; I know that in order to make Try Change successful I have to keep pushing, and keep making sales calls on the weekends, even if its 92 degrees in the Washington DC humidity (8 pound air). So there I went out walking the streets in Georgetown... samples, laptops and cads sheets in hand in the sweltering heat.

Thankfully my fiance understands the sacrifice needed in order for us to be successful. No doubt today she heard the familiar question that's asked at most social events we are invited to "Where's Vince?"

And thankfully my efforts have paid off recently (we're in 19 stores) and even today, now were in 20 stores! That's right we picked up another store today!

Indigo in Georgetown placed an order!

So here I am at the counter of Johnny Rockets celebrating with a hamburger and fries. Maybe I'll splurge and get a shake as well :-)

Vince

Try Change at 2Excess in Springfield Mall!

Another store, another video!! Try Change stops by the 2Excess store in Springfield Mall, continuing our video log of the progress we're making and the new stores we're in. Check out our tour of the 2Excess store featuring our hot new line of shirts!

CHANGE!

We at Try Change have many members from all over the world. In many of these countries there are women and minorities as heads of state. Tonight the United States took a step to join the rest of the world by selecting it's first African American Presidential nominee. To be clear we are not affiliated with any political party, we actually came up with the name Try Change over a year ago. This was before the "Change" phenomenon entered the political arena. We believed and still believe there is a thirst for change no matter what race, creed, sexuality or political party you may be part of.

Tonight we celebrate what can be achieved if you believe and that's the first step- to believe in the change yourself. When Barrack Obama accepts the nomination in Denver this year it will be on 45 years to the day since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream Speech". We all have dreams, lets get out there and make them come true before someone tries to convince us that they cannot come true.

"Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men (and women) spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view"

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Tonight we celebrate everyone who makes it their duty to make a positive difference in the world.

Help us pass along the Try Change message by joining one of our blog communities and asking your blog community members to visit our blog.

My Space

Razoo

Idealist

Change.org

MyBlogLog

BlogCatalog

Try Change Newsletter

As always, thank you to all of you for your support...Never give up on your dreams!

Vince & Chrissie

WOW!

When we started Try Change a little over a year ago we really did not know what to expect. Would we be able to sell a couple of shirts on Cafe Press? Would we get anyone to sign up to any of our blog community sites? Would anyone even care about us launching a T-Shirt company based up inspirational themes that donates 10% of all profits to Volunteers of America Chesapeake?

Well I have to tell you we are very happy to tell you the overall response to those questions have been a resounding YES!

Today Try Change is pleased to announce that we will shortly be in 19 retail stores in the VA, DC and MD area. Those stores include the Capitol Grind, 2Excess, Shadows, Fashion Mechanics' three locations and selected locations of the Changes and Sports Zone retail stores. We also have over four hundred members to our Try Change Blog Communities and we now have several videos on You Tube.

Later this month we will launch the Try Change line with the help of one of the area's premier radio stations WKYS!

Thank you to everyone who has offered words of encouragement and joined our blog. Let's keep the momentum going by telling your friends and blog members to join one of our communities.

My Space
Razoo
Idealist
Change.org
MyBlogLog
BlogCatalog
Try Change Newsletter