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APART TOGETHER: COMMUNITY
In stressful times, we turn to our craft for comfort. Brooklyn Tweed’s Apart Together initiatives enable customers to make a difference with their yarn purchases and support communities in need.
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as businesses of all kinds prepared to shutter their doors to keep employees and customers safe, the Brooklyn Tweed team looked for a way that we could aid our interconnected community of stockists, makers and designers. Facing our own office lockdown and with no time to hesitate, our small team imagined, innovated, and launched Brooklyn Tweed: Apart Together in the course of a single afternoon. The response was astonishing. In just two months, our customers helped us to provide more than $320,000 in aid to over 100 local yarn stores, keeping lights on, shelves stocked, and employees paid.
Since then, Apart Together has helped to support independent knitwear designers, local communities impacted by natural disasters, at-risk LGBTQIA2S+ youth, and Black farmers and land stewards in Oregon. Together, we have the ability to change the world — one stitch at a time.
HOW IT WORKS
PAST INITIATIVES
2023
COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Black Oregon Land Trust
Providing land access to Black farmers and land stewards in Oregon
$14,183 raised
Re•Ply with Love: Maui Strong
Providing wildfire relief to the affected communities of Maui
$10,143 raised
2022
COMMUNITY SUPPORT: Bridging Voices
Supporting LGBTQ+ and allied youth through music in Portland, Oregon
$14,519 raised
2021
COMMUNITY SUPPORT: SMYRC
Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ youth in Portland, Oregon
$18,258 raised
2020
COMMUNITY SUPPORT: ACCESS
Providing wildfire relief to the residents of Phoenix, Oregon
$27,654 raised
Aiding local yarn stores
$320,868 raised
DESIGNER SUPPORT
Supporting indie designers
$1,338 raised
YOUR SUPPORT HELPS SO MANY
Each skein of Brooklyn Tweed yarn supports domestic manufacturing jobs, ethical labor standards, and sustainable environmental practices in the United States. With your help, Brooklyn Tweed does more.