Work & Prosperity
Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center
Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center
Fashioning the future
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Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center’s mission
Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center’s mission
The Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center (ISAIC) provides training and technology support to create a sustainable and profitable apparel industry in the US. The Detroit-based nonprofit’s courses, apprenticeship program, and manufacturing center support workers, entrepreneurs, and businesses to fashion the future of US-made soft goods.
Impact in action
Autodesk Foundation
Virtual training for manufacturing workforce development
Virtual training for manufacturing workforce development
With support from Engineering for Change Fellow Maria Nieves Brunet, ISAIC developed a new system of virtual training and on-demand machine repair that can help ISAIC and other soft goods manufacturers develop their workforce and produce goods more efficiently and sustainably.
Design & Make
From fighting fashion-industry waste to PPE
From fighting fashion-industry waste to PPE
In response to COVID-19, a nonprofit focused on fashion industry waste has pivoted to coordinating a massive mask-and-gown initiative in the resurgent manufacturing hub of Detroit.
99% INVISIBLE
Masking for a friend
Masking for a friend
The 99% Invisible podcast speaks to ISAIC CEO Jennifer Guarino on making PPE in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
