Team Company C will represent at this year's Rock-n-Race in support of Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care! http://t.co/I6OHKDJb
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Natural Home & Garden Magazine May/June 2012
A big thanks to Natural Home & Garden Magazine for including Company C’s Cyprus Aqua rug in its May/June issue. The article entitled, “A Healthier Home: Furnishings and Decor to Reduce Indoor Air Pollution” by Ginevra Holtkamp can be found here.
Company C joined GoodWeave in 2005 as part of its mission to give back to the weaving communities in India. By donating a percentage of each tufted rug sold, we help support families like Monish’s. Twelve-year-old Monish used to watch with disappointment as his friends left for school. With four siblings and the government school far from his village in Varanasi, Monish’s father could not afford his eldest son’s education. This all changed when GoodWeave launched Project Muskan (meaning “smile” in Hindi).
Children often stay at home to help their parents on the looms because classrooms are literally out of reach due to their remote location as well as the prohibitive cost. In 2010, in partnership with the Human Welfare Association and The Global Fund for Children, GoodWeave was able to reach Monish and over 200 children like him. They are now enrolled in non-formal education centers, which offer an accessible and accelerated learning program for kids from impoverished and illiterate weaving communities.
These non-formal education centers are just one of the effective interventions that GoodWeave has spearheaded over the years along the carpet belt of South Asia. GoodWeave provides an array of social programs, from rescue, rehabilitation and education of child laborers to mobile health clinics, day care services and adult education for weavers.
In 2011, GoodWeave launched the second phase of Project Muskan and as a result, successfully enrolled 1,100 children in these non-formal education centers. Monish is no longer disappointed: “Now when I am studying, I feel confident and happy.” To read more stories of children whose lives have been transformed by GoodWeave, click here.
About GoodWeave
GoodWeave is an international non-governmental organization working to end child labor in the handmade rug industry and offer educational opportunities to children in weaving communities. The GoodWeave certification label is issued to rug manufacturers that adhere to the GoodWeave standard, agree to its independent verification and voluntarily join as licensees. For more information on GoodWeave, please visit www.goodweave.org.
Congratulations to Margy Taylor of Clay & Cotton for her role in The Food Literacy Project. Kentucky is lucky to have you and your team involved in the project! Thank you for including us – we’re happy to hear the Company C truck show will benefit such a worthy cause. Can’t wait to see pictures from the upcoming event!
We’re proud to be a member of GoodWeave since 2005 and taking a stand against illegal child labor.
GoodWeave is teaming up with CNN’s Freedom Project to end modern slavery across the globe. Tune in this Monday, April 18, where GoodWeave’s innovative market-based solution to end child slavery will be showcased on World Business Today at 9am EST.
To learn more about GoodWeave and their efforts visit their web site: www.goodweave.org
To learn more about The CNN Freedom Project visit; www.thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com
Thank you to Twig Interiors for their work on the Thalia House! The install was just completed this week. The Thalia House is a home for young women recovering from eating disorders. It provides a supportive transition from inpatient or residential treatment to their home environment which is essential to prevent relapse. Company C is very pleased to have been selected by Twig Interiors as a vendor on the project. We hope our pillows and rugs will help to brighten the days of the young women residing at the Thalia House. Here’s a clip from NBC News talking about the opening of the Thalia House:
To learn more about the Thalia House, please visit www.thaliahouse.com.
Twigs Interiors is a full-service design firm located in downtown Overland Park, Kansas. As a team of interior designers with a fresh and inspired style, Twigs Interiors specializes in both residential and commercial design in Kansas City and across the nation.
Items used at Thalia House: Inspire pillow, Create pillow, Dream pillow, Toucan Turquoise pillow and Gabriella Kiwi pillow.
A member since 2005, Company C is proud to be part of GoodWeave USA. We support GoodWeave as it unveils One in a Million, the nonprofit’s new campaign to bring attention to its market-based solution to end child labor in the handmade rug industry. The campaign, whose flagship ad (seen below) appears in the February 2011 issue of dwell, made its official debut at the Atlanta International Area Rug Market January 13-16.
The campaign draws its inspiration from the estimated one million children exploited in the carpet-making industry when GoodWeave began its work in 1994, and the one million or more knots that go into each handcrafted rug. GoodWeave has helped reduce the incidence of child labor in South Asia’s handmade rug industry by an estimated 75 percent.
To learn more about GoodWeave, please visit: www.goodweave.org
Whether it be a personal experience, a family member, a friend, a co-worker or someone in your community, breast cancer is a disease that affects all of us. Share your inspiring stories and your passion for finding a cure with us. And help us make a difference. Donate to Susan G. Komen for the Cure® today by visiting our donation page. Donate $25 or more and receive a limited edition pink cosmetic bag! You can also support this Colorful Cause by purchasing one of our specially-designed breast cancer awareness rugs, the Karen’s or Sisters’ Rugs. Twenty percent of the retail price will be donated directly to Komen for the Cure.
Company C, a national corporate partner of Susan G. Komen for a Cure®, is passionate about finding a cure. We’ve committed to donate $25,000 to support breast cancer awareness, research and education between October 1, 2010 and September 20, 2011.
Twenty percent of sales of our specially-designed breast cancer awareness rugs, Karen’s Rug and The Sisters’ Rug, will be donated to Komen for a Cure. Are you on Facebook? All month long, you can win one of our Passion for Pink rugs! Every Friday in October, we’ll give away one of each design to a random Facebook friend. Make sure you “Like” Company C on Facebook: www.facebook.com/colorfulliving. (Employees, family members and vendors not eligible.)
We are thrilled to announce that Company C is an official corporate partner of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Company C will donate twenty-percent of the purchase of each of our Breast Cancer Awareness rugs, “The Sisters Rug” and “Karen’s Rug” support breast cancer awareness, research and education. The rugs will be available for sale in September 2010 at more than 800 specialty retailers nationwide; at company-owned retail stores in Hingham, MA, Portland, ME and Concord, NH; and online at www.companyc.com. Both limited edition rugs are hand-hooked 2-feet by 3-feet accent rugs made of 100 percent wool.
About Susan G. Komen for the Cure®
Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like the Komen Race for the Cure®, we have invested nearly $1.5 billion to fulfill our promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world. For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit www.komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN.
We recently announced the winners of our Passion for Pink rug-naming contest. The Facebook- and blog-based contest was designed to raise awareness about breast cancer and honor those affected by the disease. The two newly named rugs are spin-offs of Company C’s best-selling Garland and Giverny rug designs; now re-colored in shades of pink, the rugs will be named “Karen’s Warrior Rug” and “The Sisters Rug.”
Company C will donate twenty percent of the retail price of each rug sold to support breast cancer awareness, research and education. In addition, all contest participants will receive one of the new accent rugs, and the namesakes will have their stories featured in Company C’s Spring 2011 catalog.
“The Sisters Rug,” is named after Allison Moir-Smith of Manchester by the Sea, Massachusestts and her sisters. In Allison’s family of five sisters, four battled breast cancer in the last five years, and the fifth participated in a study to help understand how women’s genes and their environments influence risk of breast cancer. All five sisters are living and well today.
“Karen’s Warrior Rug” honors Karen List of West Palm Beach, Florida, who first learned of her cancer when she was a young mother of two boys. Karen helped to raise awareness of the disease by becoming a breast health advocate and educator, and was later honored by Susan G. Komen for the Cure as their “Warrior in Pink.” Recently named Chair for the 2011 Race for the Cure, Karen continues to fight “not just for me, but for my fellow warriors.”
“Our entire organization felt very strongly about supporting this cause and what better way to show our support than through the use of color and design,” said Walter Chapin, co-founder and president. “This contest was part of our larger Passion for Pink initiative, which we started in 2008 and continue to stand behind with the hopes we can inspire colorful living for our customers and all those affected by breast cancer.”
“Karen’s Warrior Rug” and “The Sisters Rug,” will be available for sale to end consumers in September 2010 at more than 800 specialty retailers nationwide; at company-owned retail stores in Hingham, MA, Portland, ME and Concord, NH; and online at www.companyc.com. Both limited edition rugs are hand-hooked 2-feet by 3-feet accent rugs made of 100 percent wool.
Thank you to all of those who participated in our Passion for Pink rug-naming contest!
