Who We Are

Partners

Mesh Gelman is a partner at Extreme Linen LLC., a major supplier to retailers including JC Penney, Sears, Kmart, Macys, Target, and Kohls. Despite success as a wholesaler, Mesh sought to build a brand around a pioneering embedded giving model. Although his existing relationships allowed for immediate distribution, he recognized a new idea like Blanket America needed a new approach to realize its full potential.

Elizabeth Brown of the emerging media firm StudioE9 partnered with Blanket America to build out this potential. Elizabeth oversees all aspects of brand development, messaging, product design, and social media. She played a key role in meeting the promise of the brand, from architecting a broad consumer movement, to pursuing forward-looking approaches to manufacturing, to implementing user-directed giving.

Charitable Partners

Blanket America works with Gifts In Kind International (GIK) to ensure distribution to the needy. GIK is ranked by Forbes Magazine and Charity Navigator as one of the nation’s best-managed charities in America. Gifts In Kind International is dedicated to helping people and communities in need by distributing corporate product donations to charities around the country.

Blanket America participates in CHOOSE HAITI. CHOOSE HAITI is an ethical consumer movement helping to support the rebuilding of Haiti's economy in the wake of the January earthquake. CHOOSE HAITI products are manufactured in Haitian factories recognized by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Finance Corporation (IFC)'s, and Better Work as providing sustainable development and responsible labor practices.