Jacki has partnered with over 500 charities throughout the United States to help raise money through selling her handbags.
I’m a New York Handbag Designer based in Manhattan. I have designed handbags for all the top fashion brands in New York: Macy’s, Nine West, Victoria’s Secret, NY&CO, Tahari, Jones New York, Avon Mark, Target, Kenneth Cole, Steve Madden, Baggallini and many other brands.
We’ve worked with over 500 charities. Our handbag becomes a tool to help raise money for charities, if a women donates $100 to her favorite cause, she can get $100 off any of our handbags.
Jacki has partnered with over 500 charities throughout the United States to help raise money through selling her handbags.
Helping women and children is the way to change the planet. Over seventy percent of people living in poverty around the world are women and children. If women have a roof over their heads and a home free of violence, good and afford health care, then so do the children. It’s not just about women, but entire communities. Women are the conduits through which change is made. Last year we started to manufacture leather handbags and hand painted scarves in Haiti. Haiti has an 82% unemployment rate and so by training a mother or a father to learn how to handcraft a handbag they are able to feed, clothe and educate their children rather than being forced to give them up to adoption.
When I launched my handbags my first 3 orders were from women in the US military stationed in Iraq. It was amazing to ship my new handbags to a military base in Iraq during a time of war. I felt very honored and I felt like I was doing something to make these women feel good during such a stressful time. Shortly there after I was approached by all these silent auctions to donate handbags and gift certificates. It’s been amazing! I feel like my handbags are a symbol to help others in need, to help feed, clothe or heal wounded souls.
In 2013 I was curious to understand how women “store their handbags.” I discovered women were using shower curtain hooks to hang their handbags on their shower racks. I basically took the idea and designed a hook called the Tote Hanger so women could hang their handbags in their closet. I sold $200,000 in the past 16 months. The hooks are sold at www.ToteHanger.com or at the Container Stores.
