Warby Parker may have a better 'buy one, give one' model
Posted on January 15, 2012 in Payless shoes stores
Toms Shoes popularized 'one for one' giving. Warby Parker adds training low-income local entrepreneurs to start their own businesses selling glasses at affordable prices.
Tags: parker, warby, start, entrepreneurs, local
Buy a Hat and Change a Life with Krochet Kids
Posted on January 02, 2012 in Design your own shoes
In the age of buy-one-give-one companies like TOMS shoes and Warby Parker , there are seemingly endless ways for shoppers to feel good about buying shoes or glasses for themselves because less-fortunate people get a pair, too. Krochet Kids , a hat company based in Southern California, approaches the model a little differently. A woman in a developing country—Uganda or Peru—knits each hat you buy ...
Warby Parker may have a better 'buy one, give one' model
Posted on December 30, 2011 in Puma shoes
Toms Shoes popularized 'one for one' giving. Warby Parker adds training low-income local entrepreneurs to their own businesses selling glasses at affordable prices.
Warby Parker may have a better 'buy one, give one' model
Posted on December 24, 2011 in Clarks shoes
Toms Shoes popularized 'one for one' giving. Warby Parker adds training low-income local entrepreneurs to start their own businesses selling glasses at affordable prices.
Tags: parker, warby, start, entrepreneurs, local
How TOMS and Buy-One-Give-One Really Help
Posted on July 08, 2011 in Toms shoes
Melissa Kushner is the founder and Executive Director of Goods for Good , a nonprofit organization matching surplus goods with the needs of orphans and vulnerable children. She works with TOMS to distribute their buy-one-give-one shoes to 40,000 children in Malawi, East Africa. By popularizing the buy-one-give-one model, brands like TOMS (shoes and now eyeglasses ) and Warby Parker (eyeglasses ...