Once we launched the new STATE Bags our luck started to change. ![]() We were living in Boston at the time, and I was seven months pregnant, but within six months of that initial conversation we had packed up and moved back to Brooklyn to start our company. For every bag we’d sell, we’d give one to an American child in need. It was in that moment that we decided to create STATE Bags. So one weekend, after wrapping up another camp session, Scot and I started to discuss how we could do more to help the kids and the communities that were so dear to us. Every year when the kids arrived at camp, we’d see them carrying their possessions for the week in a plastic bag. ![]() However, one thing always caught our attention. This one week camp - now in its 10th year - is a love-filled experience for campers and the staff, who often use their personal vacation time to participate. It’s a one week fully-funded camp supporting 5th through 10th grade children from underprivileged neighborhoods in New York City. I had no clue where his idea would take us, or that it would become so meaningful to my life, but I was excited to take the ride alongside him. He’d become disenchanted with his job in the non-profit space and was ready to start his own “thing.” He spent his whole life trying to make the world a better place, so when he decided to follow his passion and mentor underprivileged ![]() When I met my husband Scot he was at a pivotal moment in his career.
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