Today’s post comes from Robert Thornton. He’s here to share the story of how his company, Paper Clouds Apparel (PCA) came into being. At the end of his story you’ll learn how to enter a drawing for a free PCA shirt donated by his company. I hope you’re as impressed by Thorton’s commitment to the special needs community as I am.
Paper Clouds Apparel: A Special Needs Company
Paper Clouds Apparel (PCA) all started back home when I was visiting my parents and spied a drawing on the fridge. When I asked Mom, a bus driver for children with special needs, about the drawing. She stated that a girl on her bus route draws on the ride to school and gives her artwork to my mother upon arriving at school. I spent that night mesmerized by this drawing, and the next morning I awoke thinking how cool that art would look on a shirt.
Paper Clouds Apparel Provides Jobs and Donations
That idea began a seven year journey to get Paper Clouds Apparel to the place where it is now. PCA takes art created by those with special needs, transfers it to our shirts, bags and hats and then sells those on our website www.papercloudsapparel.com. Every two weeks we feature a different special needs cause and donate 50% of the proceeds to that cause. In addition to the donation, PCA hires adults with special needs to fold and package all our shirts.
Paper Clouds Apparel Changes Lives
The journey hasn’t always easy. But when we receive letter from parents about how employment changed their child in a positive way, the long nights working 90 hours a week at two jobs to get the business started are totally worth it. We believe our business can change the world for those with special needs. We can give our artists and workers a huge self esteem boost and sense of pride seeing their art on our shirts being purchased by people.
Paper Clouds Apparel Needs Your Help
We raise funding for a lot of special needs causes that have had their funding cut dramatically by the government. Recent studies say anywhere from 80-93% of adults with special needs are unemployed. Our company creates jobs for hard working individuals with special needs. To make that happen, our mission needs to reach the masses. Could you help share our story? Please like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter at @PaperCloudsPCA or place an order at our website. Thank you so much!
Paper Clouds Apparel Give Away
Not only does Robert Thorton give to special needs causes and his employees, he’s sponsoring a give away here at Different Dream. To enter the give away, do these two things:
Leave a comment below about Paper Clouds Apparel.
Go to the Paper Clouds Apparel Facebook page and click their Like button.
You can enter the contest anytime between now and midnight (CST) on August 2, 2014. The winner will be chosen this weekend and contacted about shirt size and a mailing address. Ready? Set? Go!
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