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Igniting Your Passion

Connection Cafe

His one for one business model concept grew out of a day of volunteer work while on vacation in Argentina. Blake poignantly said it wasn’t the day that he came up with the concept of TOMS shoes that changed his life, it was the day he distributed his first donation of TOMS Shoes to children in Argentina.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well.

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