Changes to Wisdom Supply Co.
Company Changes:
2023:
All products have arrived back from the Texas fulfillment center to to our office in California and we will be packing and shipping all orders ourselves like the olden days.
2024:
Wisdom will be on hiatus.
We will not have product for sale in 2024
Exception: 2 crowdfund campaigns for the Weekly Planners (dates below).
Production for all other products will be on hold until 2025.
We will use this down time to transition out of e-commerce in order to return to our mission to eliminate school waste the only way that works:
No Garbage In = No Garbage Out.
Weekly Planners:
The only way we are able to continue producing weekly planners is by pre-order / crowdfunding.
Current customers will receive an email invitation to pre-order.
- If pre-order goal is reached, planners will be put into production.
- If not, customers will be refunded and planners will not be produced.
Weekly Planner Crowdfund Campaigns:
2024|25 Teacher Planner Campaign: Dec 2023
Ships Directly from Printer: April 2024
2025 Planner Campaign: Mar-Apr 2024
Ships Directly from Printer: August 2024
Pencil Tin Sets:
Will not be restocked (ever ☹️) - This little set was made up of 6 components, all from different manufacturers. Impractical in terms of labor/fulfillment .
3-Ring Binders | Replacement Covers:
Seasonal Crowdfund beginning in 2025
Pencils | Colored Pencils | Folders | Notebooks
Seasonal Crowdfund beginning in 2025
Picking the right time to wind down Wisdom Supply Co. has been hard.
Continuing with e-commerce is harder, fiscally unsustainable, and in the end, fundamentally in contrast to the zero-waste principles of the company.
Once we can get back to stocking schools (est. 2025) we plan to invite customers seasonally (1x per year) to place individual school supply orders, timed to coincide with when we place bulk school orders.
What has been our greatest struggle and ultimately our e-commerce downfall, was attempting to keep small batch, made in the U.S. school supplies in stock year round - with the advertising and fulfillment costs required by that approach.
We believe Wisdom Supply Co., has the potential to be an impactful non-profit, and we look forward to the good work ahead.
Send along any questions / suggestions
Thank you so very much for your support over the years.
🌱
Heather + Nikki
