DivvyUp offers custom socks to both for-profit and non-profit businesses and we give the same amount purchased to their local homeless shelter. The map shows where we have gifted socks in the past and where we want to go in the future. Now we give to shelters strategically using the map on our Giving Back page and the custom sock partnerships we develop with organizations. When we first started, we gifted most of the socks to Tallahassee’s homeless shelter and to shelters in our hometowns: Tampa, Florida and Ft. How do you determine the nonprofit who receives the free socks? People are more aware of the problems in the world and want to help using an entrepreneurial approach. This is a testament to the mindset of the millennial generation partnered with the access to information through the Internet. Overall, I think now more than ever there is a shift towards businesses incorporating some form of corporate responsibility into their operations. Florida State received its largest grant to date ($100M) from Jan Moran to build a brand new School of Entrepreneurship scheduled to open August 2018. FSU offers incubator space to all types of student businesses and a few different cash prize business plan/pitch competitions. Was there a culture of CSR at FSU? How does FSU tie into these types of things from an educational perspective? What other programs do they offer that made an impact (if applicable)?įlorida State has a department dedicated to Social Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR) that have social entrepreneurship backgrounds. You talk about your professor loaning you money. If we weren’t on a mission to give socks to those in need, we would have never started DivvyUp. Giving is at the heart of DivvyUp’s mission and the decisions we make every day. We decided to use the TOMS one-for-one model to sustainably solve the problem at our local shelter. Unsure of what was needed, we took a trip down to our local homeless shelter where we learned socks were heavily requested and under-supplied. The business started through Florida State University’s entrepreneurship program in 2014, which required all 40 students to form groups and start some type of business we saw this as an opportunity to help/give back. Why do you feel the need to give back as part of your business?ĭivvyUp was founded with the goal to sustainably provide socks to those in need. Jason is on track to graduate very soon cum laude from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Entrepreneurship and a minor in Economics. DivvyUp Socks is a one-for-one sock company that launched out of Florida State University’s entrepreneurship program. SWFL Sustainability recently had the opportunity to interview Jason McIntosh, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of.
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