You remember the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game, in which any actor can be connected to Kevin Bacon within six steps? Kevin Bacon was a good sport about the game, and founded a charity called SixDegrees.org. Six Degrees and Hanes got together to create a T-short to support the charity. Up to $10,000 will be
awarded to the causes of the six people most successful at connecting with friends and family to raise funds for their favorite charities. The official SixDegrees.org T-shirt from Hanes, made from ultrasoft cotton, is available for purchase for $20 at Hanes.com and SixDegrees.org.
From the official release:
SixDegrees.org, which was created in partnership with the nonprofit, Network for Good, launched at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007 to bring a social conscience to social networking. The Web site spotlights 50 celebrities' causes and allows noncelebrities to donate to or raise funds for their own favorite charities. Celebrities involved in the site include Kyra Sedgwick (Natural Resources Defense Council), Nicole Kidman (UNIFEM), Ashley Judd (YouthAIDS), Tyra Banks (TZONE Foundation), Kanye West (Kanye West Foundation), Rosie O'Donnell (Rosie's For All Kids Foundation), and Jessica Simpson (Operation Smile). The site features an auction of celebrity-signed items to benefit charity.
"We started with a group of my celebrity friends in January, but the real celebrities with a cause have turned out to be people who aren't from Hollywood," said Bacon. "In our first six months, for every celebrity involved, we've had 100 noncelebrities join, and this community has raised nearly $700,000 for thousands of charities with their badges. It goes to show that when we connect with others, our degrees of separation become smaller, and the world becomes a whole lot better."
Visitors to SixDegrees.org are encouraged to create charity badges, which are fundraising widgets that people can design themselves to raise money for any of more than 1.5 million charities and place anywhere online - including blogs, Web sites and social networks. The six people who receive the most number of donations from different people through their badge from July 19 to Sept. 16 will receive up to $10,000 in matching funds for their charity, and anyone who receives at least six donations through their badge will receive the official SixDegrees.org T-shirt from Hanes.
Kevin Bacon has been in so many movies over the years, it's mind-boggling. And now we hear that they're re-making Footloose. We feel the Shia LaBeouf buzz already starting for that one.... and it really scares us.
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