A Note From the Co-Author

With the first month of the New Year wrapping up, we here at The Fashion Foundation leave January with the same feelings we had upon entering: we are still ambitious, still highly motivated, and still extraordinarily grateful of our accomplished feats with hopes of greater things to come. We reach our arms towards new goals sitting out on the horizon, and with the help of our supporters, family, friends, and partners, we keep our backs braced upright, our feet planted firmly in the ground, ready to embrace upcoming challenges. Our mission is simple:

To provide school supplies to students in need.

If you are a longtime supporter of The Foundation, or you are just stumbling upon us for the first time, you’ll notice that we repeat this mission statement in mostly everything we do. It is rewritten and tag-lined into almost every blog post, mentioned in interviews, and proudly spoken by each volunteer. We repeat it because we believe in the integrity of the statement. We have seen first-hand the positive consequences that results from giving back to the ones who need it the most. The visual below exemplifies our impact thus far--we are nowhere near done:

This is just the beginning of a long journey. To kick off this year, The Foundation has been featured on 102.7’s CBS Radio morning show with host Deb Gordon. On January 5th 2015, The Foundation set up a pop-up shop at the lovely “Pranna” in NYC, and just eleven days later, hosted a school supply donation for IS-73 middle school in Queens, NY, donating more than $1,000 in school supplies!

We are only in our first month of the New Year and already it’s been eventful and rewarding for The Foundation. There will be new site updates, new school partnerships, and many more posts to this new blog spot, so be sure to stay tuned! Oh, and don’t forget—donate, donate, donate! The Foundation is growing and we want to thank the people who contribute to its evolution day in and day out. To the supporters, volunteers, family members, friends, and partners who continue to believe in our mission, we thank you. And now, it's on to February... 

Joseph A. Jungermann is a freelance copy editor and blogger for The Fashion Foundation. He also authors his own personal blog titled: “A Tuesday Afternoon” (www.tuesafternoon.tumblr.com). He is the founder of the copy editing company: Elemental Edit (www.elementaledit.org), which provides content editing services for students, professionals, and small businesses. Joe obtained his Bachelors of Arts in English at Stony Brook University through their honor’s college in December of 2013. To learn more about Joe, you can visit his LinkedIn page @ www.linkedin.com/in/josephjungermann