How Paperworks Studio Got Started.

 

About 18 years ago, Tim Coffee, a special education teacher in Traverse City, Michigan wanted to help his students build life and

 

work skills, so he started teaching them how to craft paper cards from pulp. His efforts picked up steam and became

 

Paperworks Studios, a mission-based, market driven, social enterprise.  They have an amazing team of people with special needs and disadvantages who make the cards.  An aray of recycled products are used to make the cards–blue jeans, coffee, flower–even beer!

When you buy cards from us, you are helping impact someone’s life.

 

In 2008, the program partnered with Goodwill Industries, and it provided an framework and structure organization–and a building to house everything– to expand.  Paperworks Studio is now making cards for companies ranging from Forture 500 to yoga studios–with everyone knowing ‘that cards change lives.’