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Key Ideas:
· Similar to TOM`s where each pair of shoes purchased the profit will donate a pair of shoes to a homeless child in need.
· Heart & Silk will work with homeless children in homeless shelters to create new designs for their tee shirts.
· Each unique art work from each homeless children will be used as a new design for every shirt.
· Shirts will be sold online and shipped to anywhere throughout the country.
· A portion of the profit made will be used for:
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The main innovation in this project are the designs created with the homeless children.
Michael Sim said his inspiration came from when he was volunteering and saw how he could make a change in the community. He really enjoys volunteer work and came up with this brilliant idea. He worked really hard to make this happen. He endured countless nights of no sleep and many rejections of his concept from shelters along the way. Him and his partner went to a lot of shelters to finally find one that believed their idea was good enough to work with.
The company is still relatively new so the overall impact isn’t extreme as of right now. It’s still a startup company. In the future, he hopes to be to partnered with many more homeless shelters. Mr. Sim strives to help homeless children explore their artistic side and teach them about business and to help provide more clothes and food for these children.
Although the main focus of this business is to help these homeless children be more involved in the community and share their talents, the company still makes a good amount of money from these sales. It really doesn’t cost much to manufacture a tee shirt, but they sell these for about $30 each. He has not told me about how much they profit from this business but knowing Michael Sim, I’m sure the main focus is for the community rather than business.
Homeless children are more involved in the community. They can feel like their work matters now and there is more attention geared towards them. They will be able to wear the creations they’ve made as well. This is a good activity to show off the talents of these kids who really don’t get as much attention as they deserve.
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Michael Sim, Heart & Silk
