Comments on: The Growing Field of Social Entrepreneurship http://www.wayneliew.com/growing-field-social-entrepreneurship/ Small Business Advice and Entrepreneurship Blog by Wayne Liew Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:00:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roger http://www.wayneliew.com/growing-field-social-entrepreneurship/comment-page-1/#comment-32285 Roger Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:50:00 +0000 http://www.wayneliew.com/?p=737#comment-32285 We encourage you to support Tom's Shoes and their efforts. For like minded people, you may also be interested http://www.bodoblankets.com where they donate a blanket to those in need for every blanket sold. Hip hip hooray for the One for One movement! We are founded on the three core values of (1) charitable giving, (2) the use of recycled or organic yarns and (3) made in the USA. By keeping our products manufactured in the United States we hope to save jobs domestically while ensuring that no child labor is used in the production of our blankets. We encourage you to support Tom’s Shoes and their efforts. For like minded people, you may also be interested http://www.bodoblankets.com where they donate a blanket to those in need for every blanket sold. Hip hip hooray for the One for One movement!

We are founded on the three core values of (1) charitable giving, (2) the use of recycled or organic yarns and (3) made in the USA. By keeping our products manufactured in the United States we hope to save jobs domestically while ensuring that no child labor is used in the production of our blankets.

]]> By: CT http://www.wayneliew.com/growing-field-social-entrepreneurship/comment-page-1/#comment-29975 CT Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:22:23 +0000 http://www.wayneliew.com/?p=737#comment-29975 Ah, I always get the feeling that Tom's Shoes is a smiling poster child that is all polished on the front and has a fat wad of cash in his back pocket, and meanwhile everyone is fixated staring at his shoes! Did you know Tom's Shoes are manufactured in China, Ethiopia, & Argentina? http://www.tomsshoes.com/content.asp?tid=295 Having worked in China for many years, I can tell you first hand they do not operate without oppressive conditions. It's ingrained into the mindset of the line-workers and management and it doesn't work otherwise. Tom's states that Intertek, a third-party auditor, visits the factories once a year. lol.Intertek made the news in 2007 http://www.ciw-online.org/no_slave_labor.html for giving the OK to a tomato farm which was later brought under federal investigation, leading to a win by the farmworkers against Burger King in 2008. "Federal prosecutors filed charges last week in a case in which farmworkers picking tomatoes in the Immokalee area say their bosses “beat them and chained their hands to keep them from leaving and finding other jobs.” The criminal complaint went on to describe the workers’ inhumane living conditions, saying workers were “locked in box trucks, crates and sheds,” by their bosses. Following the charges, authorities arrested four members of an Immokalee-based farm labor operation." Intertek was again in the news in May 2009, for OK'ing poisoned maize in a scandal in Kenya. http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/597098/-/u690f2/-/index.html and in a case in Jordan where workers were beaten and denied pay. Do you have faith in their once-a-year audit? How about manufacturing the shoes in the US.. were you provide jobs, help American kids and don't have to rely on companies like Intertek and profiteering factory owners exploiting their workers? The shoes can't cost more than a dollar to manufacture. If they've indeed brought in USD 5 million, they've given away about USD 140,000 of it? Well, minus the cost of flying a private plane around the globe to hand out the shoes and run up an AT&T global roaming charge. Sure the cause is good but just realize the enormous profit they're making, and at least consider the human cost of this profit. Ah, I always get the feeling that Tom’s Shoes is a smiling poster child that is all polished on the front and has a fat wad of cash in his back pocket, and meanwhile everyone is fixated staring at his shoes! Did you know Tom’s Shoes are manufactured in China, Ethiopia, & Argentina? http://www.tomsshoes.com/content.asp?tid=295 Having worked in China for many years, I can tell you first hand they do not operate without oppressive conditions. It’s ingrained into the mindset of the line-workers and management and it doesn’t work otherwise. Tom’s states that Intertek, a third-party auditor, visits the factories once a year. lol.Intertek made the news in 2007 http://www.ciw-online.org/no_slave_labor.html for giving the OK to a tomato farm which was later brought under federal investigation, leading to a win by the farmworkers against Burger King in 2008. “Federal prosecutors filed charges last week in a case in which farmworkers picking tomatoes in the Immokalee area say their bosses “beat them and chained their hands to keep them from leaving and finding other jobs.” The criminal complaint went on to describe the workers’ inhumane living conditions, saying workers were “locked in box trucks, crates and sheds,” by their bosses. Following the charges, authorities arrested four members of an Immokalee-based farm labor operation.”

Intertek was again in the news in May 2009, for OK’ing poisoned maize in a scandal in Kenya. http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/597098/-/u690f2/-/index.html and in a case in Jordan where workers were beaten and denied pay.

Do you have faith in their once-a-year audit? How about manufacturing the shoes in the US.. were you provide jobs, help American kids and don’t have to rely on companies like Intertek and profiteering factory owners exploiting their workers?

The shoes can’t cost more than a dollar to manufacture. If they’ve indeed brought in USD 5 million, they’ve given away about USD 140,000 of it? Well, minus the cost of flying a private plane around the globe to hand out the shoes and run up an AT&T global roaming charge. Sure the cause is good but just realize the enormous profit they’re making, and at least consider the human cost of this profit.

]]> By: CT http://www.wayneliew.com/growing-field-social-entrepreneurship/comment-page-1/#comment-32217 CT Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:22:00 +0000 http://www.wayneliew.com/?p=737#comment-32217 Ah, I always get the feeling that Tom's Shoes is a smiling poster child that is all polished on the front and has a fat wad of cash in his back pocket, and meanwhile everyone is fixated staring at his shoes! Did you know Tom's Shoes are manufactured in China, Ethiopia, & Argentina? http://www.tomsshoes.com/content.asp?tid=295 Having worked in China for many years, I can tell you first hand they do not operate without oppressive conditions. It's ingrained into the mindset of the line-workers and management and it doesn't work otherwise. Tom's states that Intertek, a third-party auditor, visits the factories once a year. lol.Intertek made the news in 2007 http://www.ciw-online.org/no_slave_labor.html for giving the OK to a tomato farm which was later brought under federal investigation, leading to a win by the farmworkers against Burger King in 2008. "Federal prosecutors filed charges last week in a case in which farmworkers picking tomatoes in the Immokalee area say their bosses “beat them and chained their hands to keep them from leaving and finding other jobs.” The criminal complaint went on to describe the workers’ inhumane living conditions, saying workers were “locked in box trucks, crates and sheds,” by their bosses. Following the charges, authorities arrested four members of an Immokalee-based farm labor operation." Intertek was again in the news in May 2009, for OK'ing poisoned maize in a scandal in Kenya. http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/597098/-/u690f2/-/index.html and in a case in Jordan where workers were beaten and denied pay. Do you have faith in their once-a-year audit? How about manufacturing the shoes in the US.. were you provide jobs, help American kids and don't have to rely on companies like Intertek and profiteering factory owners exploiting their workers? The shoes can't cost more than a dollar to manufacture. If they've indeed brought in USD 5 million, they've given away about USD 140,000 of it? Well, minus the cost of flying a private plane around the globe to hand out the shoes and run up an AT&T global roaming charge. Sure the cause is good but just realize the enormous profit they're making, and at least consider the human cost of this profit. Ah, I always get the feeling that Tom’s Shoes is a smiling poster child that is all polished on the front and has a fat wad of cash in his back pocket, and meanwhile everyone is fixated staring at his shoes! Did you know Tom’s Shoes are manufactured in China, Ethiopia, & Argentina? http://www.tomsshoes.com/content.asp?tid=295 Having worked in China for many years, I can tell you first hand they do not operate without oppressive conditions. It’s ingrained into the mindset of the line-workers and management and it doesn’t work otherwise. Tom’s states that Intertek, a third-party auditor, visits the factories once a year. lol.Intertek made the news in 2007 http://www.ciw-online.org/no_slave_labor.html for giving the OK to a tomato farm which was later brought under federal investigation, leading to a win by the farmworkers against Burger King in 2008. “Federal prosecutors filed charges last week in a case in which farmworkers picking tomatoes in the Immokalee area say their bosses “beat them and chained their hands to keep them from leaving and finding other jobs.” The criminal complaint went on to describe the workers’ inhumane living conditions, saying workers were “locked in box trucks, crates and sheds,” by their bosses. Following the charges, authorities arrested four members of an Immokalee-based farm labor operation.”

Intertek was again in the news in May 2009, for OK’ing poisoned maize in a scandal in Kenya. http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/597098/-/u690f2/-/index.html and in a case in Jordan where workers were beaten and denied pay.

Do you have faith in their once-a-year audit? How about manufacturing the shoes in the US.. were you provide jobs, help American kids and don’t have to rely on companies like Intertek and profiteering factory owners exploiting their workers?

The shoes can’t cost more than a dollar to manufacture. If they’ve indeed brought in USD 5 million, they’ve given away about USD 140,000 of it? Well, minus the cost of flying a private plane around the globe to hand out the shoes and run up an AT&T global roaming charge. Sure the cause is good but just realize the enormous profit they’re making, and at least consider the human cost of this profit.

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