The Friends of the MFG Center preserves and promotes apparel manufacturing in New York City through development, education, and research.
Founded in 2017, Friends of the MFG Center is focused on promoting and supporting manufacturing activity in urban centers, starting with a focus on one of the largest urban manufacturing centers in the United States: New York City’s Garment Center. Friends of the MFG Center is a registered 501c3 in the state of New York.
The Garment District has been an active manufacturing center in New York City for 200 years. Factories in the area employ over 5,000 New Yorkers, mostly immigrants and women. The Friends of the MFG Center empowers Garment Center workers with opportunities.
help NYC Garment center workers support hospitals
Garment Center workers from NYC factories have teamed up to make medical gowns. Your contribution preserves jobs and protects hospital workers with gowns.
Friends of the MFG Center is a 501(c)(3) organization and gifts are tax deductible as allowed by law. EIN: 82-1568772
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“Sustaining some form of the industry contributes to our status as a fashion capital of the world.... Access to manufacturers is profound. After all, fashion is about timing.”