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We honor America's best manufacturers keeping America's future strong.
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Rachel Weeks, Founder & CEO of School House Inc. |
American Made Heroes Award.
We Rachel Weeks & Schoolhouse saluted at our "Gathering of Heroes"
“I was at this stage in my life where I had nothing to lose: I could...come home and get a job working in corporate social responsibility...
But this was a great time to take a huge risk and see how it turned out.” The risk was, of course, starting School House. In fact, the money Weeks had
used to start the company was actually compensation from getting hit by a car during her sophomore year of college. -- Rachel Weeks
"Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled."
-- Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson.
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“I am, three weeks out of the month, in my car, just visiting colleges, going to college bookstores, talking to students, and trying to get a feel for the campus culture...we always try to give each collection a design touch that’s very unique to that campus”. Her visit to MIT yielded five pieces, including yoga pants with iPod pockets, cardigans, and T-shirt dresses. But the most “MIT-esque” elements come from what Weeks admitted as “a little stereotypical... [The creative director Colleen McCann] came up with this equations print t-shirt and hoodie, that we thought was fun, and a little kitschy, that we thought worked for your market.” The School House products are available at the Coop in Kendall Square, and soon, if not already, on the Coop’s online store. |
American Made Hero! Rachel Weeks, CEO
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School House Inc.
... a new American Made Hero Company.
Rachel Weeks, while cultivating her company’s ethical production model, saw an opportunity to bring her fashion story home, and moved production to her home state
of North Carolina in Spring of 2011. She is 100% focused on "Made in America” as being her first step toward the company's vision of both elevating ethical
production and reviving U.S. apparel manufacturing on USA's East coast.
School House strives to design fashion-forward collegiate clothing and accessories that are socially responsible and crafted with
care and quality. Their exclusive collections of men's and women's college tees, hoodies, dresses, lounge pants and more are available at 100 college
bookstores nationwide and counting.
For Rachel Weeks' commitment to manufacturing all her garments in her native state of North Carolina thus bringing back the textile manufacturing heritage and jobs to communities across her state while maintaining her 100% focus on creating a socially responsible supply chain homegrown in North Carolina, we applaud and honor Ms. Weeks and all her fellow workers at School House as members of American Made Heroes!
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"We’re revitalizing local communities once synonymous with textile production and ‘inshoring’ jobs back to the East coast. We’re creating a modern manufacturing legacy, with a workforce as diverse as its landscape and a can-do candor that’s unmistakeably American. First and foremost, School House is about people. We pay premium prices and work one-on-one with suppliers and apparel workers in our facilities to ensure everyone is paid fairly, treated equitably and instructed with integrity." -- Rachel Weeks, CEO of School House Inc. We enthusiastically welcome Rachel Weeks as a new member of AmericanMadeHeroes.com |
Alexander Hamilton |
"Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear
to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufacturers. Every nation ... ought to endeavor to possess within
itself all the essentials of a national supply. They comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing and
defense ... The expediency of encouraging manufactures in the United States, which was not long since deemed very
questionable, appears at this time to be pretty generally admitted."
-- Alexander Hamilton ... an American Made Hero! |
American Made Heroes (AMH) is a unique non-partisan, grass-roots partnership focused on supporting, strengthening and expanding USA manufacturing. AMH applauds and salutes the growing group of American domestic manufacturers who proudly manufacture here in the USA and deserve America's special recognition and respect. American Made Heroes (AMH) also recognizes and salutes those among us who advocate for the implemention of policy solutions to immediately support our domestic manufacturers over unfair trade from foreign competitors. |