Today is Excellent Educators Day, brought to you by Loyalist College.
It’s an exclusive look into the lives’ of some of the region’s best and brightest educators, including Nick Foley.
He is well-known for the many charitable organizations that he supports, in the Quinte region. He’s a college professor, an entrepreneur, a speaker and one of the co-founders of We Be Us, an online clothing company that supports shelters and charitable groups across the country. Foley tells us more about his career in entrepreneurship and the creation of 20k Sock Day.
Through the 20k Sock Day initiative (now in its third year,) this year’s goal is to collect 100,000 items of personal protective equipment, to donate to charities across Canada.
In its first year, We Be Us set a goal of collecting 20,000 pairs of socks for 20k Sock Day, to donate to shelters in Canada (28,000 pairs of socks were collected.) In their second year, their goal was 50,000 pairs of socks (67,000 pairs of socks were collected, to donate to shelters in Canada.)
Foley is also the new coordinator of the Loyalist College Public Relations and Event Management program.
Foley says this reflects how the public relations industry has also been adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To hear his complete story, click the link below.