SHOP TILL YOU DROP AND HELP WOMEN
From baked goods to clothes to jewelry, businesses around the city are donating to causes aimed at female empowerment
Shops and companies around the city are celebrating International Women’s Day on Monday by putting their money where their mouth is and donating to women-related charities.
Here’s where you can shop and boost female empowerment, women’s rights, gender equality and other causes dedicated to lifting up female voices and talents.
City-based Baked By Melissa will be donating 10% of its earnings to the Girls Opportunity Alliance. The female-founded company’s trademark treats are bite-size cupcakes. The Girls Opportunity Alliance aims to empower adolescent girls around the world through education.
Banana Republic
The retailer brought back its “Notorious Necklace” in October to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. All sales proceeds from the bedazzled collar are being donated to the International Center for Research on Women. Ginsburg used to wear the sparkling bib necklace whenever she disagreed with a Supreme Court decision, calling it her “dissent collar.”
DKNY
DKNY is celebrating International Women’s Day by partnering with Women in Need, a city-based organization that provides safe housing, services and programs to help homeless women and children. DKNY has committed to giving 10% of all online sales from March 3 to Monday to Win. You can indulge in online retail therapy while supporting Win’s 12 shelters and 335 supportive housing units around the city at DKNY.com.
Hudson Yards
Home to more than 100 shops, Hudson Yards is extending its International Women’s Day celebration until March 31. Starting Monday, shopping at any woman-led or -owned businesses in the West Side complex, and showing a same-day receipt to Concierge Services, will mean 10% of the spending total will be donated to Girls Inc. of NYC. Participating stores include Lululemon, Sephora and Tory Burch.
Modern Picnic
Conceived in 2018 by New York City transplant Ali
Kaminetsky, Modern Picnic designs classy lunchboxes for working woman. Insulated with premium vegan leather exterior and styled with a chic silhouette, a Modern Picnic’s lunchbox can easily pass for a high-end purse. For all of March and to honor International Women’s Day, Modern Picnic is donating 20% of earnings from online sales to the international nonprofit Dress for
Success.
Oeuf
Based in Brooklyn, Oeuf is a family-run children’s lifestyle brand that offers ethically produced childcentric clothing, home decor and furniture. For International Woman’s Day, the brand designed alpaca wool crowns that say “GRL POWER” and “FEMINIST.” Proceeds will go to the Black Mamas Matter Alliance,
an organization advancing Black maternal health.
Old Navy
Old Navy has launched a graphic T-shirt in honor of International Women’s Day. Under the brand’s “Project WE” series — which features designs from diverse artists — Old Navy partnered with city-based artist Jade Purple Brown to create the limited-edition graphic tee. Sales of the short-sleeved shirt will go toward a $1 million donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
The Clear Cut
Online jeweler the Clear Cut is celebrating International Women’s Day by supporting woman who want to pursue a career in the jewelry business. By diverting 50% of sales of spark pendant necklace purchases to a scholarship fund, the business hopes to cover the tuition for women of color to attend the Graduate Diamonds Program at the Gemological Institute of America in the city.