business model
realizing that a not-for-profit organization would be heavily dependent upon sponsors and constant fundraising, mycoskie chose to create an innovative for-profit business model to achieve a charitable purpose. for every pair of shoes that the company sold, it would donate one pair to a child in need. mycoskie felt that this model would be more economically sustainable than a charity because sales would be used to achieve the company's mission. he saw this to be a form of social entrepreneurship in which a new business venture acted to improve society through product donations at the it lived off society through its sales.