{"id":706,"date":"2018-08-13T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/?p=706"},"modified":"2023-08-08T16:32:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T16:32:13","slug":"thread-intl-launches-own-products-with-kickstarter-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/2018\/08\/13\/thread-intl-launches-own-products-with-kickstarter-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Thread Int&#8217;l launches own products with Kickstarter Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"h_kuo1y0oud e_kuo1y63pm clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"js_45h\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\">\n<div id=\"id_5b718a08cbe6d4750227636\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/2018\/08\/13\/thread-intl-launches-own-products-with-kickstarter-campaign\/better-bag-2018_8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-707\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-707 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/files\/2018\/08\/Better-bag-2018_8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"281\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/08\/Better-bag-2018_8.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/08\/Better-bag-2018_8-300x156.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 540px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 540\/281;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">One of Mi3\/ORFL&#8217;s Investee companies, <strong>Thread International<\/strong>, is launching its own line of products. It is starting with a &#8220;A Better Packpack&#8221; and is introducing it via a kickstarter campaign which opened last week. The campaign is already busting through its goals! The prototype has been produced, tested and refined. They are now setting up manufacturing as I write.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><strong>What is Thread&#8217;s impact?<\/strong> We first invested because of its commitment to build and maintain an equitable, sustainable supply chain of recycled plastic (<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">PET flake) sourced in <strong>Haiti<\/strong> and providing income to &#8220;collectors&#8221; seeking to provide for their families. The supply chain of collectors and franchise collection posts were set up with Engineers without Borders. The recycler is a local Haitian family-owned business. Now Thread has expanded its impact by setting up a facility in the Homewood area of Pittsburgh and employing locals in this impoverished neighborhood. Serious impact!!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Want to support Thread and its Impact? Pre-order its new bag on Kickstarter!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/threadkickstarter\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/threadkickstarter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Mi3\/ORFL&#8217;s Investee companies, Thread International, is launching its own line of products. It is starting with a &#8220;A Better Packpack&#8221; and is introducing it via a kickstarter campaign which opened last week. The campaign is already busting through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/2018\/08\/13\/thread-intl-launches-own-products-with-kickstarter-campaign\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,19],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impact-investing","tag-impact-investing","tag-social-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/mi3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}