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ReMade Social Enterprise trains youth, and their ComFYie products help their peers.

 

Every youth job program cohort is tasked with producing their own ComFYie designs using recycled materials, prototyping them, creating a marketing plan and producing limited runs using advanced manufacturing equipment as part of their training. Sales of their limited-edition ComFYies support the program and their peers. Cohorts choose the foster youth need they want to raise money for – whether it is providing laptops and school supplies to their college-bound peers,

 

College Collection

 Dreams of college – foster youth have them too. Tragically, although the majority of foster youth start college, few ever complete. Only 8% of foster youth will earn a college degree in their lifetime.
Too often, the financial burden of keeping a roof over their head and paying daily living expenses causes them to drop out. A little assistance with school expenses can be the difference between graduation and failure.

 

Our first collection supports LA County’s 500 foster youth freshman class who are off to college across the U.S. With dreams of becoming doctors, lawyers, social workers, scientists, engineers, and teachers, they are 100% on their own with no safety net. ComFYie keychain sales will help pay for needed school supplies like a laptop and a peer mentor to be with them through their freshman year. A peer paving the path.

 

ComFYie Clothing Kits

Clothing is the #1 need for children and youth in foster care. Clothing is not covered in monthly foster care payments. And once a year, clothing allowances aren’t enough.

 

 Brand partners provide iFoster with excess inventory as part of the SB707 textile recovery act diversion from landfills. Youth learn AI/NIR spectrometry sorting and grading techniques and reverse supply chain logistics while building clothing kits for children and youth in foster care. Clothing that cannot be reused is sorted and graded per recycling partner contracts, with future testing of shredding for polyfill to stuff our ComFYies.

 

Our goal is to consume 85% of all clothing received, with the remaining 15% used to create reused clothing kits for foster youth and recycled fiber fill for ComFYies.