OUR MISSION
Our Mission
GoodThreads.org is a non-profit that provides brand new clothing, accessories and household merchandise to low income and at-risk populations in the United States. We utilize apparel industry purchasing know how to buy brand new inventory at deeply discounted prices and logistics expertise to match available inventory to the product needs of leading non-profits, who are best in class at getting aid to their communities.
We are a Texas based organization. Our 501(c)3 is in progress
Our Story
The Inspiration
My Nani was a dressmaker (and a boss!). She spent her life designing gowns to help women look beautiful on the most important days of their lives. The dresses she designed are not just threads, they are the fabric of core memories and self-esteem that women carried for a lifetime.
After Nani retired, she had thousands of beautiful gowns sitting in a warehouse. I convinced her to use them to do some good! The vision was simple: no matter the life circumstance of a young girl, she would not miss out on participating in the important life milestone of her prom. And for this special evening, she will not show up in a hand me down. She will wear a new dress that is hers alone. And that dress would make her look like a queen!
Our First Programs
We started an initiative with Catholic Charities New York to provide new prom dresses to young girls in their community, who would otherwise not be able to attend their prom. The first program was a big success! The next year we expanded to two states. We worked on a program to provide dresses for unhoused high school girls in the Alief School District in my hometown Houston, TX. Over the past three years, we have helped more than 1000 girls get brand new dresses.
Good Threads is Born!
In late 2024, I met a buyer for an apparel store that explained to me how discount retailers like Ross and Marshalls buy palates of clothing for 10 cents on the dollar. I had the realization that if we could buy like these retailers do, we could do even more good! It was time to think bigger, and Good Threads the non-profit was born!
Our vision today is to utilize for profit innovation to maximize social impact. We will turn every $1 donated into $10 by purchasing efficiently, like a discount retailer. We will utilize cutting edge technology to match available product with the needs of leading non-profits that are already experts in getting help out into the community. We are young, but we will partner with best of breed companies and experts to pack an outsized punch.
OUR PARTNERS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & FOUNDER
Talia Tsipras
Talia Tsipras is the Executive Director of GoodThreads.org and a student at St Agnes Academy in Houston, Texas.
OUR BOARD
Cynthia Remec
Tracy Schwartz
Tracy Schwartz
Cynthia Remec is the Executive Director and founder of BoardAssist. An internationally recognized authority on nonprofit governance issues, Ms. Remec has lectured on nonprofit governance at events for the business schools of Columbia, Harvard, Stanford and Wharton, as well as at forums for government agencies, leading financial service i
Cynthia Remec is the Executive Director and founder of BoardAssist. An internationally recognized authority on nonprofit governance issues, Ms. Remec has lectured on nonprofit governance at events for the business schools of Columbia, Harvard, Stanford and Wharton, as well as at forums for government agencies, leading financial service institutions and Fortune 100 corporations. Since founding BoardAssist, Ms. Remec has been responsible for bringing over $260 million into the nonprofit community through the board placements she has effected.
Ms. Remec has been quoted or profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, The Financial Times, Crain’s New York Business, and Conde Nast Portfolio, among other publications and is the author of Giving Back, a guide to nonprofit board service. Before founding BoardAssist, Ms. Remec was a corporate lawyer with Pillsbury Winthrop, Weil Gotshal and JP Morgan. She formerly served on the boards of Platinum Pals, Artadia, ExpandED Schools and INCLUDE and currently sits on the Business Advisory Board of Hunter College and Major Gifts Committee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is a Patron of the Arts in the Vatican Museums.
Tracy Schwartz
Tracy Schwartz
Tracy Schwartz
Tracy Schwartz was formerly the Director of Digital Communications at Sard Verbinnen & Company, a leading strategic corporate and financial communication firm based in New York City. In addition to providing traditional public and media relations counsel, Ms. Schwartz oversaw the strategic development of and managed online reputations for
Tracy Schwartz was formerly the Director of Digital Communications at Sard Verbinnen & Company, a leading strategic corporate and financial communication firm based in New York City. In addition to providing traditional public and media relations counsel, Ms. Schwartz oversaw the strategic development of and managed online reputations for a wide range of clients, including global corporations, public/private institutions, investment, financial and professional service firms, and high-profile individuals. During her tenure at the firm, she helped launch over 200 websites and developed global advertising campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Schwartz was previously a marketing associate at Lazard Freres & Co. and Prudential Preferred Properties. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.
Monica Mehta
Tracy Schwartz
Monica Mehta
Monica Mehta is an author, investor and sought after expert on finance, small business and the economy. She is a managing principal at investment firm Seventh Capital. Ms. Mehta has written columns for WSJ, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, INC and Entrepreneur Magazine and appears on Real Time with Bill Maher, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, Fox Business,
Monica Mehta is an author, investor and sought after expert on finance, small business and the economy. She is a managing principal at investment firm Seventh Capital. Ms. Mehta has written columns for WSJ, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, INC and Entrepreneur Magazine and appears on Real Time with Bill Maher, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, BBC, Bloomberg TV, MSNBC, ABC News. She is the author of award winning book The Entrepreneurial Instinct: How Everyone Has the Innate Ability to Start a Successful Small Business (McGraw-Hill 2012). Throughout her career, Ms. Mehta has assisted hundreds of entrepreneurs on a pro-bono basis to write business plans and secure loans through her work with the NY Business Solutions Center and the Wharton Small Business Development Center. She is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.