11.12.2011
Knights' Apparel CEO Joe Bozich meets with Alta Gracia factory worker.
Factory Defies Sweatshop Label, But Can It Thrive?
The New York Times - By Steven Greenhouse - July 17, 2010 SITTING in her tiny living room here, Santa Castillo beams about the new house that she and her husband are building directly behind the wooden shack where they now live.
Alta Gracia Featured on Channel One News
11.11.2011Channel One News ran a segment last week all about Alta Gracia, reaching 6 million high school students. The feature interviewed workers from the factory talking about how a living wage is changing their lives, explains living wage, and most...
Alta Gracia coming to the Highlander
11.10.2011The Mac Weekly (Macalester College) - By Ronit Zemel and Leewana Thomas - November 10, 2011 There is a certain element of pride one has when sporting their college's apparel. As someone with older siblings and cousins, I have inherited many...
Worker-fair brand available at UK
11.2.2011The Kentucky Kernel - By Mary Chellis Austin - November 2, 2011 Alta Gracia, a collegiate apparel brand that pays its workers a living wage, can now be found at the UK bookstore. Owned by Knights Apparel, the brand has made a commitment to their...
Campus Connection: Badgers fans snapping up fair trade apparel
10.28.2011The Capital Times - By Todd Finkelmeyer - October 28, 2011 Are Bucky backers socially conscious? It was one year ago that Alta Gracia, a fair-trade apparel company, started selling Bucky Badger logoed sweatshirts and T-shirts through...
Fair-Trade Apparel Company Finds Success at University Book Store
10.26.2011University of Wisconsin - Madison News - By Gillian Losh - October 27, 2011 One year after Alta Gracia, the largest fair-trade apparel company on campus, began selling University of Wisconsin-Madison apparel at the University Book Store,...
Alta Gracia Apparel benefits Workers, Customers Alike
10.26.2011With the return of the Alta Gracia line to the new bookstore, students will, “with the very simple decision to buy a t-shirt, have a chance to change someone’s life,” according to Alta Gracia founder and 1985 Vanderbilt alumnus Joe Bozich, who...
Joe Bozich Is Heard at Penn State
9.20.2011“I wanted to do something more important with my business than just worry about winning market share – that seemed kind of empty after what I had been through, and I wanted to find a way to use my business to impact the people that it touched on a...
Leading the Home-Front Fight
9.19.2011The Diamondback - By Maria Romas - September 20, 2011 In the months following an outcry of alleged abuse in university departments on the campus, students are looking to places as far away as the Dominican Republic for inspiration to change this...
“Living Wage” Line Supported But Not Recognized
9.19.2011TCU 360 - By Bailey McGowan - September 19, 2011 TCU students are supporting fair wages in the Dominican Republic but they might not know it. TCU students tend to not know about what the Alta Gracia line does for the workers though despite...
UM Partners With Socially Responsible College Apparel Supplier
9.17.2011The Missoulian - By Gwen Florio - Septembet 17, 2011 University of Montana team spirit got a little warmer and fuzzier Friday with the announcement that some Griz apparel now is socially responsible - meaning that the Dominican workers who...
Apparel Firm Pushes for Fair Worker Wages
9.16.2011The Daily Nebraskan - By Jacy Marmaduke - September 16, 2011 Alta Gracia Apparel wasn't supposed to be a non-profit organization. But one year after the debut of the collegiate apparel company, which provides its workers in the Dominican...
Consciously Collegiate Attire Company Visits U.M.
9.16.2011KPAX News - By Robin O'Day - September 16, 2011 MISSOULA- Wearing Griz apparel shows your school spirit and depending on the brand you buy, it may also show you support living wages for foreign factory employees. The company Alta Gracia visited...
Hawk Apparel Supports Labor Group Alta Gracia
9.13.2011The Daily Iowan - By Eric Moore - September 16, 2011 Buy a Hawkeye shirt, help support workers' rights. Alta Gracia, a clothing line that emphasizes workers' rights, aims to do just that. The clothes are made by workers in Villa Altagracia, a...
A Living Wage for Factory Workers
9.9.2011The Daily Pennsylvanian - by Rose Espinola - September 9, 2011 These are the words I was anticipating: I was a student activist. As I let these words fall onto paper, I know something has changed. I am in the Dominican Republic, with the...
Alta Gracia Hits a Snag
9.8.2011Georgetown University - The Hoya - by Mariah Byrne - September 9, 2011 One year into its experiential endeavor promoting human rights in manufacturing, clothing line AltaGracia is starting to feel the economic squeeze. Knights Apparel Chief...
Collegiate Fair-Labor Apparel Company Helping Workers
9.8.2011The Michigan Daily - by Adam Rubenfire - September 14, 2011 One year after its founding, fair-labor college clothing company Alta Gracia, which sells apparel on campus, is continuing its mission to provide higher-paying wages to its employees...
Alta Gracia Project Finds an Audience, And a Market, at Georgetown
9.7.2011Georgetown University - September 7, 2011 Yesterday evening, in front of a small crowd of students, alumni, and guests in the ICC auditorium, Jack DeGioia received a gift from a company CEO and two international guests. To anyone not aware of...
Dominican Workers Laud Georgetown Support of Living Wage Factory
9.7.2011Georgetown University - September 7, 2011 TWO WORKERS FROM A living-wage apparel factory in the Dominican Republic told a Georgetown audience Tuesday night that the collegiate clothing sold in university bookstores – including Georgetown’s – has...
Alta Gracia Workers Tour the East Coast!
9.6.2011Meet Workers Who Sew University Apparel! *Tuesday, September 13, 9:30 pm | Fordham Univesrity, Salice Conley Integrated Learning Center *Wednesday, September 14, 12:30 pm | New York University, Kimmel 406, *Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 pm...
Alta Gracia: Improving Lives, One Shirt at a Time
5.25.2011Barnes & Noble College News - May 25, 2011 Santa Castillo stood on the dirt floor of the one-room, corrugated-tin roof shanty that lacked both a kitchen and running water explaining that, until recently, this tiny dwelling was the home she...
Living Wage Apparel: Sweatshirts Without Sweatshops
4.11.2011Cornell University - EZRA, Cornell's Quarterly Magazine - Spring 2011 All too often, collegiate apparel is manufactured by overworked employees laboring in poor working conditions for well below poverty-level wages. That is changing, and Cornell...
Alta Gracia’s Knights Apparel: Lifting Workers From Poverty
4.4.2011The Capital Hues - March 24, 2011 I am fortunate to work at a university that is positively impacting the global economy and changing people’s lives. In early March, I returned from the Dominican Republic where I spent five days visiting...
Bookstore Apparel Threads Together Paychecks and Education
2.24.2011Boise State University - Arbiter Online - February 24, 2011 The bookstore now carries a new line of apparel. Not only is it making a difference in a another country by selling this brand on campus, but it costs no more than other well-known...
AU Bookstore Uses ‘Fair Wage’ Employees For Clothing Supplies
2.15.2011American University - The Eagle by Sommer Brugal - February 14, 2011 Alta Gracia employee Maritza Vargas used to reside in a two-bedroom home with a family of five, sharing a common bathroom with three other families. But now, her family lives...
A Sweatshirt Story
2.10.2011The University of Washington - The Daily By Kirsten Johnson - February 1, 2011 On a typical day in any lecture class, it’s easy to spot students sporting purple UW-logo hoodies. While owning one or two of these is common, some people might not...
U. Student Advocates For Fair Labor Abroad
2.10.2011Rutgers University - The Daily Targum By Anastasia Millicker - January 23, 2011 While some students at the University took off for vacations abroad with friends and family earlier this month, the goal of School of Arts and Sciences junior Richard...
Wis.-Madison Buys Socially Conscious Apparel
2.10.2011Associated Press - November 19, 2010 MADISON, Wis.---The University of Wisconsin-Madison is joining other schools around the country in purchasing apparel from a Dominican Republic factory that pays its workers a living wage. The T-shirts and...
Campus Connection: Are Bucky backers Socially Conscious?
2.10.2011University of Wisconsin - The Cap Times By Todd Finkelmeyer - November 18, 2010 For more than a decade there's been a small but vocal group of students, faculty and staff on the UW-Madison campus trying to curb sweatshop abuses at companies that...
New University Shirts Clean Up Sweatshop Image
2.10.2011NPR, KPLU 88.5 - Seattle and Northwest - By Charla Bear - November 15, 2010 Showing school spirit for local Universities could give a big boost to workers in a developing country. Bookstores at some schools now carry a line of logo shirts that...
Illini Union Bookstore Begins Selling Apparel To Support Human Rights
2.10.2011Illinois Public Media - University of Illinois, WILL-AM - January 25, 2011 The Illini Union Bookstore in Champaign recently unveiled a new apparel line from a company pushing to end poverty in Central America. South Carolina-based Knights...
Working America’s 5 Best And 5 Worst Moments of 2010
2.10.2011AlterNet By Kimberly Freeman Brown - December 24, 2010 It’s been quite a year for America’s working families. And as we gear up for the fights ahead, it’s important to reflect on 2010—both the highs and the lows. The Best 1. Rail and Airline...
Vision: How One Tiny Factory Is Challenging the Sweatshop Norm
2.10.2011AlterNet By Sarah Seltzer - December 22, 2011 In the 1990s and early 2000s, exposing sweatshop conditions in garment factories was the student activist cause du jour--but more than a fad, it was a lasting, hard-hitting movement that permeated...
A Fair Price For Duke Clothing: Duke Plays Role In First Living Wage
2.10.2011Duke University - Duke Today By Bryan Roth - November 23, 2010 DURHAM, NC --For more than 100 factory workers in the Dominican Republic, all it took was one person to make a life-changing difference. For the past 13 years, Jim Wilkerson, Duke's...
Students Should Proudly Sport Union-Made Hawkeye Apparel
2.10.2011The Daily Iowan By Teresa Cheng-Guest - November 17, 2010 Years of activism by garment-worker unionists and students organizing with United Students Against Sweatshops have paid off, as new union-made, living-wage Alta Gracia hoodies and Tshrits...
Barnes & Noble Adds Sweatshop-Free Apparel
2.10.2011The Johns Hopkin University - The John Hopkins News-Letter BY Justin Li - November 11, 2010 Hopkins' Barnes & Noble bookstore now offers apparel from Alta Gracia, an industry-leading apparel manufacturer that pays workers 340% above minimum wage...
Students Support Fair Wages By Buying Alta Gracia Clothes
2.10.2011University of Central Florida - Central Florida Future By Jennifer Pritchard - November 7, 2010 The next time you are about to buy a T-shirt, you may want to stop and consider the clothing label it was made by. Alta Gracia, an American-owned...
Clothes That Make a Difference
2.10.2011Florida State University in Tallahassee - FSView & Florida Flambeau By Anthony Murdoch - October 21, 2010 Florida State University recently joined other colleges and universities in a movement to help factory workers earn 3.4 times more than the...
100 Game Changers, Millions of Votes, Here Are Your Ultimate 12
2.10.2011The Huffington Post by Arianna Huffington - October 21, 2010 Last month we announced HuffPost's 2010 Game Changers -- 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are changing the way we look at the world and the way we live in it. And we asked...
Clothing Line New To USC: Alta Gracia Pays Foreign Workers ‘Living Wage’
2.10.2011The University of South Carolina - The Daily Gamecock By sara Hartley & Taylor Cheney - November 12, 2010 There's a new brand of USC apparel in the Russell House bookstore sporting the name Alta Gracia - Spanish for "High Grace." The brand is...
Yale Bookstore Adds Socially Conscious Brand
2.10.2011Yale University - Yale Daily News By Charlotte Dillon - September 27, 2010 The Yale Bookstore is now carrying apparel made by Alta Gracia, an American-owned company that pays its workers in the Dominican Republic a living wage. Along with 185...
Sweatshop-Alternative Clothing Sold At University Book Store
2.10.2011The Seattle Times By Seattle Times Staff - November 15, 2010 Students with the University of Washington's Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) said Monday that clothes made in a third-world clothing factory that pays a living wage have gone on...
Matador Bookstore Sells New Clothing Line That Helps Families Make A Living
2.10.2011California State University, Northridge - Daily Sundial By Jackie Holmes - September 26, 2010 A new line of clothing is being sold at CSUN’s Matador Bookstore but unlike the numerous clothes that already line the racks, this clothing line is much...
One T-Shirt At A Time
2.10.2011University of Maryland at College Park - The Diamondback By Melissa Quijada - September 22, 2010 For most students, deciding what Terp apparel to buy comes down to aesthetics and cost, not the living conditions of the textile workers who produced...
Standards Rise for Apparel
2.10.2011Georgetown University - The Hoya by Sarah Kaplan - September 21, 2010 Starting this fall, some of the apparel sold at the university bookstore carries a story with it: The employees of the manufacturers are paid a living wage and afforded worker...
Gear For The Greater Good: Alta Gracia Apparel
2.10.2011University of North Carolina, Charlotte - Auxiliary Services By Staff - October 9, 2010 Knight’s Apparel, a Spartanburg, South Carolina-based company that specializes logoed clothing for the collegiate market, has put their money where their...
Alta Gracia Clothing Apparel Makes A Stand Against Poverty
2.10.2011Illinois State University - The Daily Vidette by Tobias Wall - September 15, 2010 The ISU bookstore at Barnes & Noble will soon have a new brand of college-logo apparel to offer to customers. In itself, this is not news. However, Alta Gracia is...
New Bookstore Clothing Line Benefits All
2.10.2011Lehigh University - The Brown and White by Annamaria Anselmo - September 7, 2010 The bookstore is now featuring apparel, including unisex T-shirts and fleeces, from a new clothing line called Alta Gracia. These new clothes have much more to offer...
Bookstore Clothing Line to Support Foreign Workers
2.10.2011George Washington University - The GW Hatchet by Samantha Stone - September 7, 2010 The GW Bookstore teamed up with Knights Apparel to offer a new clothing line this fall that plans to pay clothing manufacturers in the Dominican Republican a...
Bookstore Boasts Friendly Factories
2.10.2011Temple University - The Temple News Online by Matthew Petrillo - September 6, 2010 Anthony Santangelo grinned widely with embarrassment as his mother told him to try on a larger-sized sweatshirt. “Mom, I think it fits,” the sophomore...
Apparel Company First to Pay Living Wage
2.10.2011Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge - The Daily Reveille by Frederick Holl - September 6, 2010 Every fall, University students flock to retailers around campus to buy clothes and show off their Tiger pride, but they rarely think of the...
Bookstore Apparel Promotes Global Good
2.10.2011Florida A&M University in Tallahassee - The Famuan by Ashley Hogans - September 3, 2010 Maritza Vargas, a working mother in the Dominican Republic, can now afford to continue her children's education and no longer has to worry about struggling to...
PSU Supports Workers’ Rights Efforst At Knights
2.10.2011Penn State University - The Daily Collegian by Micah Wintner - September 2, 2010 The minimum wage required by law in the Dominican Republic is $140 per month, but Knights Apparel pays its workers $500 per month. Knights Apparel, which makes it...
New Product Line Made in Safe Work Setting
2.9.2011The University of Miami - The Miami Hurricane by By Nicolette Roque September 2, 2010 This is the first apparel brand in the world that is compensating its workers with a ‘living wage.’ Enabling workers to make three times the average pay and...
Alta Gracia Starts “Living Wage” Movement
2.9.2011Old Dominion University - Mace & Crown By Christian Ernst September 8, 2010 Every student buys a college sweatshirt or t-shirt or some apparel during their tenure at school, with a variety of choices. Now, one company, Alta Gracia, who produces...
New Clothing Comes To Co-op
2.9.2011The University of Connecticut - The Daily Campus By Garrett Gianneschi - September 2, 2010 A new, socially conscious clothing brand is looking to redefine the way international manufacturers do business. They are requesting your help. Alta...
Buy This Product
2.9.2011TIME By Joe Kline July 18, 2010 - What's the opposite of a boycott...a buycott, perhaps? In any case, the New York Times reports on the noble effort of Knights Apparel to pay a living wage at its factory in the Dominican Republic. Knights...
