H Heroes of the YearFirst responder fundraisers
A first-responder calendar hanging in the house

For fire, EMS, and police

Heroes of the Year — without the station doing the printing.

Three photo campaigns: a calendar, a shirt, or a keepsake. You send photos. We design, print, and ship. The house keeps the cut.

Apply for a campaign See the 2025 sample

Three campaigns. That is the whole menu.

Pick the fundraiser. Same photo machine.

Hickory Farms and Yankee Candle sell a catalog. That is one campaign with a hundred SKUs. Groups freeze. We run three photo campaigns a group can rotate — calendar, shirt, keepsake. Not five. Not one.

Calendar

The year on the wall

Calendar

Twelve photos. Your name on the cover. Families buy copies they hang all year.

Twelve photos · supporters pay $29.95 · group keeps $8

Shirt

Wear the roster

Shirt

One photo on a shirt. The same people who buy a calendar also wear the cause.

One photo · supporters pay $28 · group keeps $8

Keepsake

Ornament or magnet

Keepsake

A small photo gift for the tree or the fridge. Easy extra at the same table.

One photo · supporters pay $14.95 · group keeps $5

A working group list

200 copiesis a normal first year if you ask

They keep

$8 each$1,600 back to the cause

We handle

design + shipYou do not touch a printer

How it works

The house collects. We press.

  1. You gather photos Apparatus, the crew, the station dog, the parade. Your PIO or a lieutenant signs off.
  2. We build one calendar Twelve months, the house name on the cover, optional sponsor pages from the diner and the auto shop.
  3. The town orders A private shop. We print and ship. No one at the bay is boxing books.
  4. The house gets paid $8 back per calendar. Packs for families. Sponsors for the extra.
A printed house calendar

Who it’s for

Anyone with a bay door and a Facebook page.

Volunteer fire

The group that already sells BBQ plates. A calendar is the winter version.

EMS & rescue squads

Same town, same donors. A second calendar, or one shared year.

Police & sheriff auxiliaries

K-9, explorers, the foundation. Keep it the auxiliary’s fundraiser, not a department endorsement mess.

Why this is honest

This market already exists. We just run it.

People buy firefighter calendars every year. Most houses still do it in a binder. We take the binder away. Honest group calendar. No fake national contest.

2025 sample calendar for Heroes of the Year

Previous work · 2025 sample

A finished 2025 calendar. This is the press.

A sample book so a group can see the quality before they send photos. These pictures are examples of the press — not a specific group’s book. Your campaign uses the photos your people send.

Flip the 2025 sampleDownload PDF

Pricing

Same split as the rest of the studio.

Founding partners — first 10 groups

$199 to launch

  • Your branded campaign and shop
  • We design from the photos you send
  • Calendar $29.95 · shirt $28 · keepsake $14.95
  • You keep $8 a calendar or shirt, $5 a keepsake
  • We print, ship, and handle the rest
  • Optional sponsor pages — you keep 70% of those ads

Apply for a founding slot

After the first ten

Launch is $799. Same $8 back to you per calendar. Bulk reprints and next year’s pre-order are how both sides make more than one December.

Print cost comes out of the $29.95 before anyone splits the rest.

2027 season

Ten founding calendars. Then the waitlist.

If your house can send twelve photos, apply. First ten stations get the founding price.

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