Good Threads
Venture Overview
Good Threads works to improve quality of life in Jacmel, Haiti through the manufacturing and sale of needlepoint products. The venture generates local employment and sustainable income opportunities to address poverty and economic instability.
Website: www.goodthreadsneedlepoint.com
Venture Issue Area: Economic Development
Venture Headquarters: Jacmel, Haiti
Venture Founder
David Palmer was born and raised in the Detroit area. He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2008. He currently lives in Jacmel, Haiti with his 4 adopted children. He runs a non profit foundation, the Joan Rose Foundation and a needlepoint business, Good Threads. David founded the Joan Rose Foundation in 2010, the mission of the foundation is to provide impoverished children the opportunity to succeed in life. The foundation pays for its members to attend a high-end private school, lunch and breakfast M-F, tutoring, additional educational reinforcement classes and extra curricular classes to about 125 children. Good Threads manufactures and sells needlepoint products. It employs just about all of the parents of the children at the Joan Rose Foundation and many of our neighbors. David believes that hard work and good choices should be rewarded and hopes to provide employment to hundreds more Haitians in the Jacmel area.
