Here are our key takeaways from the success of past fundraisers we’ve had the privilege to support through Ignition.ink.

If you haven’t caught on yet, your TSG crew works hard - but we also value time away to reset + recharge in nature or with our family and friends.

Meet our friends from VegLife Des Moines for cookies, tees and good times.

Meet our new friend Aaron Tinder - he teaches in the Department of Art at Grandview University and makes incredible things.

Our definition of a maker is any one person or group of people who have created something for themselves or their community from a place of passion and love. That’s why we are excited to highlight the Des Moines Area Hunger Hike and their efforts to bridge the hunger gap near and far.

Meet our friend Sara Routh — an acoustic, jazz-folk singer/songwriter who tells life's adventures through music.

The Water Ride has raised over $32,000 by people getting on their bicycles in the Des Moines & Indianola area. Tsipasi, a community in Ghana, is experiencing a better quality of life (education, more hours to work instead of fetch water and time with family).

Meet our friends T.J. and Aaron. A couple of average (but wonderful) guys with a mission to bring excellent coffee and meet you where you are.

There has been a lot of buzz over the last few years about work-life balance. It’s a topic we discuss regularly between our two-person-team regularly since our work and professional lives are so intertwined.

We are so pumped to share space with Marnē at our second Friday Friends event on 6/28. We met the woman behind Marnē when we teamed up with Lululemon DSM last year and fell in love with her passion to provide the DSM community with quality wears that invest and focus on fair trade practices.

Run by Ben Brackett, Matt Ream and Sean Holmes, their mission is to build upon and bridge gaps between the existing opportunities and soccer community — while providing local adult soccer players an opportunity to continue their love for the game through meaningful training and games.

We recently collaborated with our friends Preservation (a vintage modern shop based in Des Moines, IA), to create limited edition tees in response to family separations that occurred at our borders.

Making something for the moment is easy. Making something that lasts — that's where the challenge comes in. Here are a few keys we feel can help set you up for creating swag (and products) that stand the test of time.

Whether you're offering a product or service driven business, it's good to remember that you're investing in people first, in hopes that you can continue to invest in your products, service and overall business. 

If we've learned anything from the past year it's that there are countless amounts people doing the hard work to keep our local community moving forward in a positive way.

For longer than I can remember, I've held dear to the phrase "Do what you love. Love what you do." And then another perspective found its way into my life.

Here's a little sparknotes version for what goes into it when it goes smoothly and perfectly.  

While limited bi-weekly runs has allowed us to challenge ourselves as designers and keep a steady hand on quality - we've heard the request longer buying periods with our online store.

"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better." - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo