Hi, my name is Mary, and I recycle old, used, and unused cloth into worthwhile new items. I started this business about 8 years ago.
So as I looked around my house, I saw my cloth bags for shopping and my work bag for merchandising. Bravo, a good idea hit me just as the pandemic was starting. Why not make more cloth bags for the marketplace, as plastic ones became an issue. I made all different sizes for the different kinds of shoppers and turned the vinyl into insulated bags, as not as many of them are in the marketplace.The pandemic hit, and my merchandising in stores shuttered, so that gave me time to start an inventory, and I spent the next 3-4 years doing that. looking for donations.
But I needed funding badly at this point to get a website developed and maintained, so I needed a hosting serviceI have tried everything I could in this time to accomplish what I started with no luck. My credit score gave me no loans, no family money available, and no friends to borrow from. I didn’t qualify for SBA funding or grants. I tried everything I could think of to get help, no loans available for startups.
I need to raise a minimum of 100,000 to get a suitable place to work from, as I have outgrown where I am now. I need money to procure the website for selling the bags, and I need money to pay workers needed to expand this business beyond word-of-mouth selling and wearing the products.
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