Photo Credit: Nick Foley
Oldies 100.9 news presents the Vanderlaan Building Excellent Educators Day, profiling outstanding leaders in our community.
Nick Foley 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, 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 Loyalist College’s Public Relations and Event Management program – He says he looks forward to learning from and working with his students each day at the college, adding that the post-secondary program has transitioned online, over the past year.
Foley says this reflects how the public relations industry has also been adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To learn more about the full-time Public Relations and Event Management program at Loyalist College, visit their website.
Excellent Educators Day is proudly supported by:
Vanderlaan Building Products, 13 Loyalist Drive, Brighton. Call 613-475-3684 or visit vanderlaanbuilding.com. Trust Vanderlaan.
Anne Butwell, Realtor, Remax Quinte in Brighton. Buy Well, Sell Well, Butwell. Visit annebutwell.ca for more information.
Philip Lawrence, MP Northumberland-Peterborough-South, thanking our teachers for the work that they do and the challenges they’ve faced this past year. Visit philiplawrencemp.ca.
To hear more from Nick Foley, click here.
