The reveal
Three friends, a worn-out hat, and a promise: take the ordinary days seriously enough to paint them, print them, and hand them to somebody else. Then get in the truck and go find the people nobody claps for.
Four pieces. They all feed each other.
We go somewhere ordinary or far away, take the pictures, and write down what actually happened. Every photo gets painted into watercolor, every page gets three lines, and the whole thing becomes a real printed book with our names on it.
Read a painted story
The finished books are for sale — ours to read, and the tools to make your own. Add your photo, it gets painted, you answer three questions, and you hold your own day in your hands.
See the books
The Hat is Aaron's character and the first of the cast. There's a real hat you can wear, and a patch for every adventure finished — sew them on and the jacket becomes the record of your year.
Hat & patches
Not a spectator sport. Grab the free kit, do a tiny adventure this weekend, make a book out of it, earn the patch, and tell us where we should go next.
Get the free kitThe real reason
Every town has somebody holding it together quietly — the one who shows up, covers the shift, feeds the kids down the street, never mentions it. They don't enter contests and they don't ask for help. We drive until we find them, and then we match them with somebody who has been looking for a good place to put their money.
Step 1
Two wrapped rides — the little white Prius and the Yukon XL — take the Hat down the road, town by town.
Step 2
The people everybody in town quietly relies on and nobody ever thanks. They don't ask. That's exactly how we know.
Step 3
People who want to help tell us what they can give. We put a real name and a real need on the other end of it.
Step 4
Not a cheque in the mail — a day, a fix, a trip, a thing they'd never buy themselves. Then it becomes a painted story so other people do it too.
Keep them, take them — that's the rule from our book. You can chip in twenty-five dollars, fund one whole adventure, or fund a chapter of the trip. Your name goes on the Givers wall, and the day you paid for comes back as a painted story you can hold.
Pick the one that fits this week. None of them take long.
The free kit has ten of them and the three questions to answer after.
Free kitYour photos, painted, printed, shipped. Or print it yourself at cost.
Make a storyThe hat, the patches, the stickers. Monthly members get the patch free.
ShopFund a stop, or tell us about someone in your town who deserves one.
Giving
Leave your email and we'll send you the free kit, tell you when the books are ready, and let you know when the trucks are coming through your part of the country.
