09/10/2024
Soap For Hope, a division of the Educational Equity Alliance (EEA), based in Coatesville, PA, is pleased to announce that The Foxwynd Foundation DAF funded the Foxwynd Foundation’s generous donation to EEA’s Soap for Hope program!
Soap for Hope is a workforce development program and social enterprise that provides training and employment opportunities for vulnerable youth and women. Operating since 2013, Soap For Hope Fundraising directs 100% of the net profits to empowering the youth and women that participate in the program.
Soap for Hope Youth Entrepreneurs is a 20-week workforce development program that trains under-served youth in the skillsets and mindsets of leading and operating a business. Master soap maker and Youth Entrepreneur instructor, Sherri Jarvis, shares,
“Students became so engaged that they wanted to create new products. We decided to conduct a Shark Tank-like competition as the capstone activity each year. Students create a fictitious company, complete with back story, mission, financials, and a new product they want to pitch. Then, they design, manufacture, and pitch their product to a team of “sharks.” The competitions have resulted in new products including scented candles, scented room spray, melting rubber ducky soaps, turmeric and honey facial bar, and lip care products that where all added to the Soap For Hope online store for purchase."
The generous grant of $15,000 will help sustain Soap for Hope’s existing youth entrepreneurial and workforce development program, employ parttime youth Product Associates, and sales representative. In the award letter from Foxwynd Foundation to Educational Equity Alliance, Foxwynd Foundation Executive Director, Pamela Villagra, wrote:
“Thank you all for your relentless effort and passion. Let us celebrate this achievement and look forward to the positive impact we will make together with the support of the Foxwynd Foundation.”
Soap For Hope is grateful to Foxwynd Foundation for their financial support, partnership, and confidence in the positive impact this program makes on the lives of underserved youth and women.
