Community Outreach
at Wantable
MAKING A SOCIAL IMPACT
Community outreach is part of our every day. Our Making A Genuine Impact Crew (MAGIC) gives Wantable team members an opportunity to get involved in giving back to our community. Every year we make a social impact by supporting a diverse range of worthy causes. If you would like to suggest an initiative or get involved contact us.
Scroll for a sampling of our latest community initiatives.
Litter Clean-Ups
RESTORING BEAUTY TO OUR CITY
Through partnerships with Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful and Milwaukee Riverkeeper, we’ve taken to the streets (and sandy beaches) to clean up litter and trash in our community. With the help of each volunteer, several bags were filled to the brim with waste and the results were beyond rewarding. We litter-ally had the best time!
Making Holiday Magic
TOY DONATIONS FOR MILWAUKEE STUDENTS & STAFF
We partnered with the Daisie Foundation to surprise K3-8th grade students at Alexandria Mitchell Integrated School of the Arts with gifts for the holiday season. A few days before the big reveal, volunteers were hosted at our Wantable Cafe to wrap nearly 700 presents (in just a few short hours!) including Wantable goodies for teachers and staff.
Refugee Relief
CLOTHING DONATIONS FOR AFGHAN WOMEN
In response to the Afghan refugee crisis we partnered with two local organizations to donate women's clothing to support the 12,000+ refugees at Fort McCoy in Madison, Wisconsin. In total, over 100 boxes full of clothes were sent to Fort McCoy to help empower and provide basic needs to Afghan refugee women and girls as they resettle here in the United States.
Let's Do It For The Girls
PROUD TO PARTNER WITH ABCD:
AFTER BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we partnered with ABCD to uplift survivors by Styling It Forward. Five breast cancer survivors—who are also ABCD volunteer mentors—were gifted free boxes including 7 items of clothing and/or accessories from their choice of a Style, Active, or Sleep & Body Edit.
Style It Forward
SOCIAL IMPACT: GIFTING 1,000+ FREE EDITS
For community outreach, we Styled It Forward by gifting 1,000 Edits to those down on their luck or out of work due to the pandemic. Boxes included 7 items of clothing and were styled by Wantable volunteers. The gifting of Edits continues! In spring 2021, we Styled It Forward for deserving moms, teachers and nurses. Know someone in your community who is in need? Nominate them below.
Equality Always
COMMUNITY OUTREACH:
STANDING FOR PEACE & POSITIVITY
Our diverse Wantable family renewed our lasting commitment to equality in our communities. And, with peace and positivity, we delivered care packages and held fundraisers for Milwaukee-based minority-owned organizations advocating for equality through racial and ethnic diversity.
Sew Good
FACE MASKS FOR MEDICAL WORKERS
March 2020 — Hustling on lockdown, community outreach meant mobilizing an army of at-home crafters (we ❤ you) who pledged to sew 20K cloth face masks. Using our technology and fulfillment center, we were able to make a social impact by helping to fulfill the critical need for cloth face masks for medical professionals battling the pandemic on the frontlines.
We knew there was potential to make a social impact with Sew Good, but we didn't anticipate the level of care that volunteers would put into each face mask. We are so grateful. — Tiffany Cooley, CMO
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