Mission

Our Mission

Wear What You Stand For exists for one reason: To fund direct help for people fighting battles you can't see.

We're a Hyde Park, NY apparel brand. Every shirt donates $3 to vetted 501(c)(3) nonprofit partners working in mental health, addiction recovery, suicide prevention, cancer support, and 10 other causes.

We don't just "raise awareness." We fund resources.

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Why These Shirts Exist

I'm Teresa. I've lived with depression, lost family to addiction, held friends through cancer, and survived domestic violence.

For the battles I haven't fought, someone I love has.

I started Wear What You Stand For because I was tired of buying "awareness" shirts and never knowing where the money went.

If my brother had seen one person wearing "It's Ok Not to Be Ok" on his worst day, maybe he'd still be here.

So we made the rule simple:
Every shirt = $3 donated = 1 person helped.

Not awareness. Resources. Support groups. Wigs. Counseling materials. Crisis text line funding.

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