SMAD student starts nonprofit t-shirt company to benefit youth

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Joanna McNeilly, a writer at The Breeze, recently wrote about Josh Holton's use of SMAD skills in creating a nonprofit to benefit Young Life. From her story:

Josh Holton makes graphic T-shirts for a good cause. The junior media arts and design major started his own nonprofit T-shirt company, ENYNE. Pronounced “e-nine”, all the proceeds go to the Young Life in the area.

Holton came up with the idea a year and a half ago, but he hesitated to start it because he thought he wasn’t ready to start a business just yet. However, he already had a leg up with the help of his parents’ T-shirt company, Holton Design, that he, his brother and his dad design for.

Holton wants kids to benefit from Young Life the same way he did, which is why he decided to help families out financially with the Young Life camps.

“I feel like Young Life is the best tool for administrating the gospel for kids,” Holton said. “Especially the ages from middle school to high school because so many of them feel broken.”

Holton’s first graphically designed shirts have a white sloth on the customer’s choice of a black T-shirt or tank top on his website.

Every two weeks he’ll give all of his profits to a specific area that JMU Young Life leaders serve:Harrisonburg/Rockingham County, Shenandoah County, Augusta County or Page County. Holton chooses which area based on who he knows there, who contacts him or who he thinks would need it the most. Right now, all the proceeds are going to Fredericksburg Young Life.

Read more about Josh Holton's work here.

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Published: Thursday, October 15, 2015

Last Updated: Thursday, November 2, 2023

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