BeGood Clothing is a

socially responsible Social responsibility is an ethical framework in which an individual is obligated to work and cooperate with other individuals and organizations for the benefit of the community that will inherit the world that individual leaves behind. Social ...

clothing Clothing (also known as clothes, apparel, and attire) are items worn on the body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin sheets of materials and natura ...

, and accessories

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based in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17t ...

, California. BeGood Clothing features not only

sustainable fashion Sustainable fashion (also known as eco-fashion) is a term describing products, processes, activities, and actors (policymakers, brands, consumers) aiming to achieve a carbon-neutral fashion industry, built on equality, social justice, animal ...

and gifts that are

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, but it also gives back to an environmental or humanitarian cause for each item purchased. The company supports local San Francisco nonprofits, participates in charitable events, as well as donates customers’ gently used clothing to

Goodwill Industries Goodwill Industries International Inc., often shortened in speech and writing to Goodwill (stylized as goodwill), is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides job training, employment placement services, and other community-bas ...

monthly. BeGood Clothing was founded by Mark Spera and Dean Ramadan.

Products

BeGood carefully curates the brands and designers they carry in the store in an effort to improve the

sustainable clothing Sustainable fashion (also known as eco-fashion) is a term describing products, processes, activities, and actors (policymakers, brands, consumers) aiming to achieve a carbon-neutral fashion industry, built on equality, social justice, animal w ...

image. BeGood Clothing offers various clothing items from designers who associate with charities or have implemented

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strategies.

BeGood Outreach

BeGood has partnered with the San Francisco non-profit, Project Open Hand, and donates a meal to their organization for the sale of certain items in the store. BeGood also partners with these local and global non-profits and charitable organizations: *

Project Open Hand Project Open Hand is a California nonprofit organization that provides medically tailored meals and groceries to elderly and homebound people in San Francisco and Alameda County. Founded in 1985 to deliver meals to people with AIDS, it also took o ...

Books for Africa Books For Africa is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to collecting, sorting, shipping, and distributing books to children and adults in Africa. With headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, and warehouses in St. Paul and Marietta, Geo ...

*Donation of clean water *Education initiatives *Toothbrush given to a child in need *Donation of prescription lenses *Eco-Causes *

World Bicycle Relief World Bicycle Relief is an international, non-profit organization based in Chicago, IL that specializes in large-scale, comprehensive bicycle distribution programs to aid poverty relief in developing countries around the world. Their programs focu ...

*Humanitarian Initiatives

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External links

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Online clothing retailers of the United States