Our History

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In 2018 our founder Ashley Nevison's cat, Sargeant, died unexpectedly from cancer. She knew she had to do something to honor him. She started sewing cat toys out of fabric scraps. Her goal was two-fold, to keep the fabric scraps out of landfills and give cats in shelters a taste of home before they get adopted. She was sewing and donating cat toys until March 2020 when the Covid pandemic started. She decided to pivot and use her sewing skills to start sewing masks for essential workers. She had sewed and donated masked and shipped them all across the USA when she heard that the homeless youth in her community were in desperate need of masks due to new city mask mandates. She decided to sew some and deliver them at a homeless outreach event. When she got home she saw a post about a youth grant opportunity that asked if you had $250 how would you use the money to make a difference in your community. She decided that if she won the $250 grant she would create hygiene Hope Bags and donate them to homeless shelters. Her life changed forever that day. She ended up receiving the grant and the $250 grant started it all.