Just when we thought that the flow of money had sadly come to a trickle, a very, very generous benefactor has come forward with an incredible offer. We’d been thinking all week about how to continue raising funds for disaster relief in Japan, despite the fact that the auction was so much more successful than we ever imagined. Recovery costs are estimated at 235 billion dollars and the images coming from Japan continue to be heartbreaking. During the course of the auction, we heard over and over that people who really wanted to give and participate were priced out after a certain point, so we were sure that we wanted to offer some sort of t-shirt after the sale. Besides that, we love our disaster bear logo drawn by illustrator Dave Gordon and weren’t quite ready to retire him.

What our anonymous benefactor has offered is to match Cafe Press’ production cost dollar for dollar and donate it to our charity of choice, GlobalGiving. Say a t-shirt costs $25;  the mark up of $5 is what we’ll donate to GlobalGiving and $20 is what Cafe Press takes in production and profit and what our benefactor will match with a donation to GlobalGiving. Click here to see all the great gear whose purchase will continue to help the Japanese people.

Also see GlobalGiving‘s nice write up on Handmade For Japan and many others here.