Your purchase helps provide scholarship assistance for neighborhood economically disadvantaged students to attend one of the most amazing non-profit schools we’ve ever seen: Academy Prep Center of Tampa.

In our own backyard, Academy Prep provides a thriving education program that transforms the lives of underserved students. At the core of their mission, Academy Prep provides an exemplary college preparatory middle school education coupled with a wide range of life changing services.

Academy Prep students are closely supported through graduation of high school, college and into their early careers. This extensive commitment to the student and range of strategies helps guide Academy Prep students to a life fulfilled. 

Metropolitan Ministries meets the most urgent needs of struggling Tampa area families. In collaboration with 65 neighborhood partners, they care for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in our community through emergency shelters, residential programs, meal sites, food pantry, metro outfitters clothing closet and additional programs. 

Faceplant donates consistently to the clothing closet program to promote dignity through comfortable clothing to help families make a fresh start. 

PAWS Assistance Dogs raises, trains and pairs service dogs with wounded combat soldiers and children free of cost. With two close family members who are disabled veterans, our animal loving founder felt immediately drawn to the organization’s goals. After several years of partnering with PAWS fundraising, we had the privilege of learning first-hand how life changing these animals can be when PAWS provided a trained service dog to one of our own.

With the incredible impact teachers have on the lives and dreams of young people, we believe they are our strongest advocates for social change. A sound education is the root of all success for an individual and a community. We wanted to thank our teachers - from the bottom of our soles. So we did!

If Covid has taught us anything, it's taught us to improvise, adapt and find creative ways to care for ourselves, our loved ones and our communities. When we couldn't get face coverings soon enough, we made them... by the thousands. One of our favorite customers hand-stitched buttons to hundreds of donated Faceplant headbands which were then given to nurses around the country to protect their ears from the discomfort of face masks.

While the winds were still blowing over the Bahamas from Hurricane Dorian, we gratefully accepted the donations offered on GofundMe and hitched our boat, loaded with the supplies were told were needed most, and went to help rebuild a community devastated by high winds and waters.