Month: May 2024

Tapestry, a global house of brand consisting of Coach, kate spade new york and Stuart Weitzman, for the second year in a row, has been recognized as one of America’s 50 most community-minded companies by Points of Light. For the first year, Tapestry has also been named as the Sector Lead for the Consumer Discretionary industry.

Tapestry is committed to driving change on pressing global social issues through strategic investment. We use our collective strengths to help make the fashion industry more sustainable and to build a company that’s equitable, inclusive and diverse.

Our approach to social impact is to invest where we believe our brands and people can create the most impact, in line with the brand’s distinct purposes. We champion causes that are important to Tapestry, our people and our values.

Tapestry’s 19 Bold Goals set targets across key areas that we would achieve by 2025. To date, the “community” pillar, we have met two of our three original goals:

100,000 volunteer hours completed by 2025. This was achieved in 2021. Our new goal is 500,000 volunteer service hours completed by our employees around the world by FY2030.$75 million in financial and product donations to nonprofit organizations globally by FY2025.

Coach, kate spade new york, and Stuart Weitzman are also making change with their respective programs.

Since the launch of Dream it Real in 2018, the Coach Foundation has reached over 170,000 young people; funded 5,279 scholarships funded, paired 250 college students with Tapestry employee mentors and has eight active Dream It Real programs globally, including China, Japan and North America. Dream It Real programs offer scholarship, mentorship, belonging and wrap-around support and partnership to help young people gain access to post-secondary education.

“Volunteering through the Coach Cares program has been transformational,” says Megan Christiansen, a Coach store manager in Southern California. “Not only has the program strengthened connection within each other, our communities and organizations, but it’s also illuminated the power we hold both individually and collectively to shape a brighter tomorrow.”

kate spade new york’s women’s empowerment and mental health journey started in 2013 in Rwanda with its On Purpose initiative. The company set out to use their supply chain to empower women and encourage sustainable practices in their community. Through their business partner Abahizi CBC a B-corporation certified and employee-owned business located in Masoro, Rwanda, over 250 women have full-time employment, 95% of the workforce has attended empowerment and mental health training, and 90% of women feeling they can make a decision regarding family planning by themselves or jointly with their partner.

Divya Kaushal, an area leader with kate spade new york says, “Social impact is important as it empowers us to be powerful, progressive and sensitive leaders by embracing everyone’s true potential and authenticity.”

Stuart Weitzman continued its partnership with Vital Voices through a bespoke program called Bold Movers: Investing in Women Working Toward Gender Equity. This new, seven-week leadership training and mentoring program is dedicated to investing in women advancing inclusive workplace initiatives, specifically to address challenges for working mothers and caregivers. Participants will be eligible to receive a grant to help further their missions.

Morgan LaBar, associate manager at Stuart Weitzman, said, “Celebrating International Women’s Day in our office with the Vital Voices Bold Movers cohort was one of the most meaningful and memorable days I’ve had at Stuart Weitzman. It was incredible to meet a group of women all making a difference in their communities and knowing that our brand supports them in doing this made me proud to work here!”

Tapestry is honored to be recognized for our efforts to stretch what’s possible for our communities. Read more about our efforts in volunteering and community investment here.

Tapestry, a global house of brand consisting of Coach, kate spade new york and Stuart Weitzman, for the second year in a row, has been recognized as one of America’s 50 most community-minded companies by Points of Light. For the first year, Tapestry has also been named as the Sector Lead for the Consumer Discretionary industry.

Tapestry is committed to driving change on pressing global social issues through strategic investment. We use our collective strengths to help make the fashion industry more sustainable and to build a company that’s equitable, inclusive and diverse.

Our approach to social impact is to invest where we believe our brands and people can create the most impact, in line with the brand’s distinct purposes. We champion causes that are important to Tapestry, our people and our values.

Tapestry’s 19 Bold Goals set targets across key areas that we would achieve by 2025. To date, the “community” pillar, we have met two of our three original goals:

100,000 volunteer hours completed by 2025. This was achieved in 2021. Our new goal is 500,000 volunteer service hours completed by our employees around the world by FY2030.$75 million in financial and product donations to nonprofit organizations globally by FY2025.

Coach, kate spade new york, and Stuart Weitzman are also making change with their respective programs.

Since the launch of Dream it Real in 2018, the Coach Foundation has reached over 170,000 young people; funded 5,279 scholarships funded, paired 250 college students with Tapestry employee mentors and has eight active Dream It Real programs globally, including China, Japan and North America. Dream It Real programs offer scholarship, mentorship, belonging and wrap-around support and partnership to help young people gain access to post-secondary education.

“Volunteering through the Coach Cares program has been transformational,” says Megan Christiansen, a Coach store manager in Southern California. “Not only has the program strengthened connection within each other, our communities and organizations, but it’s also illuminated the power we hold both individually and collectively to shape a brighter tomorrow.”

kate spade new york’s women’s empowerment and mental health journey started in 2013 in Rwanda with its On Purpose initiative. The company set out to use their supply chain to empower women and encourage sustainable practices in their community. Through their business partner Abahizi CBC a B-corporation certified and employee-owned business located in Masoro, Rwanda, over 250 women have full-time employment, 95% of the workforce has attended empowerment and mental health training, and 90% of women feeling they can make a decision regarding family planning by themselves or jointly with their partner.

Divya Kaushal, an area leader with kate spade new york says, “Social impact is important as it empowers us to be powerful, progressive and sensitive leaders by embracing everyone’s true potential and authenticity.”

Stuart Weitzman continued its partnership with Vital Voices through a bespoke program called Bold Movers: Investing in Women Working Toward Gender Equity. This new, seven-week leadership training and mentoring program is dedicated to investing in women advancing inclusive workplace initiatives, specifically to address challenges for working mothers and caregivers. Participants will be eligible to receive a grant to help further their missions.

Morgan LaBar, associate manager at Stuart Weitzman, said, “Celebrating International Women’s Day in our office with the Vital Voices Bold Movers cohort was one of the most meaningful and memorable days I’ve had at Stuart Weitzman. It was incredible to meet a group of women all making a difference in their communities and knowing that our brand supports them in doing this made me proud to work here!”

Tapestry is honored to be recognized for our efforts to stretch what’s possible for our communities. Read more about our efforts in volunteering and community investment here.

Our people making a difference is a series featured throughout Owens Corning’s 2023 Sustainability Report.

With a background in polymer chemistry, Ozma Lane could have pursued a career in academia. Luckily for us, though, she brought her talents to Owens Corning nearly six years ago, first developing improvements to our shingle materials and more recently as part of our Asphalt team. Working at our Science & Technology Center in Granville, Ozma is focused on ensuring that we are making sustainability gains while still meeting the high product standards that have made Owens Corning a market leader.

On the importance of sustainability in asphalt

Within the Asphalt team, at least a portion of every scientist’s work is focused on sustainability. The initial reason I was brought into this role was to evaluate ways for us to meet our 2030 sustainability goals, finding more sustainable materials to lower our embodied carbon footprint. Asphalt has an impact on the embodied carbon of our shingle product. Any change we can make to reduce the carbon content of our asphalt can help us meet our 2030 goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is a project for the long term — this is not a sprint — but we’re seeing a lot of opportunities on different timescales.

On the importance of collaboration at Owens Corning

The connections we have with our colleagues on different products and in different groups means that I can find something useful, even if it’s not what I was originally looking for as an application. That lets us find opportunities for innovation more quickly because we’re applying each new idea or material to a broader field of products.

That is something that you see in a company that has a very cooperative culture. People want to help each other and that’s a real strength that lets us evolve and communicate a lot more quickly. The willingness to cooperate and be supportive of each other lets us make more use of each other’s strengths when people of working with that goal in mind.

On choosing Owens Corning as a career

If you had told me in grad school that I would really dig a job where sometimes I was in head-to-toe PPE and steel-toed boots and working in a shingle factory for 10 or 12 hours at a time — and that I would like it— I would assume you were joking. But I would expect to spend my career in building materials because it’s a very real business. I want to reduce emissions and impact climate change through the work I do. That’s a pretty awesome responsibility, and it means I can make an impact in a way that I couldn’t if I was in a different career.

Our people making a difference is a series featured throughout Owens Corning’s 2023 Sustainability Report.

With a background in polymer chemistry, Ozma Lane could have pursued a career in academia. Luckily for us, though, she brought her talents to Owens Corning nearly six years ago, first developing improvements to our shingle materials and more recently as part of our Asphalt team. Working at our Science & Technology Center in Granville, Ozma is focused on ensuring that we are making sustainability gains while still meeting the high product standards that have made Owens Corning a market leader.

On the importance of sustainability in asphalt

Within the Asphalt team, at least a portion of every scientist’s work is focused on sustainability. The initial reason I was brought into this role was to evaluate ways for us to meet our 2030 sustainability goals, finding more sustainable materials to lower our embodied carbon footprint. Asphalt has an impact on the embodied carbon of our shingle product. Any change we can make to reduce the carbon content of our asphalt can help us meet our 2030 goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is a project for the long term — this is not a sprint — but we’re seeing a lot of opportunities on different timescales.

On the importance of collaboration at Owens Corning

The connections we have with our colleagues on different products and in different groups means that I can find something useful, even if it’s not what I was originally looking for as an application. That lets us find opportunities for innovation more quickly because we’re applying each new idea or material to a broader field of products.

That is something that you see in a company that has a very cooperative culture. People want to help each other and that’s a real strength that lets us evolve and communicate a lot more quickly. The willingness to cooperate and be supportive of each other lets us make more use of each other’s strengths when people of working with that goal in mind.

On choosing Owens Corning as a career

If you had told me in grad school that I would really dig a job where sometimes I was in head-to-toe PPE and steel-toed boots and working in a shingle factory for 10 or 12 hours at a time — and that I would like it— I would assume you were joking. But I would expect to spend my career in building materials because it’s a very real business. I want to reduce emissions and impact climate change through the work I do. That’s a pretty awesome responsibility, and it means I can make an impact in a way that I couldn’t if I was in a different career.