One point of pride for Jeff Tognetti is the effort he puts into giving back, both to his local community and to good causes across the country – or even across the world.
Take, for example, what happened in the summer of 2013. It began as a simple request for Tognetti made by the Fair Wear Foundation: could you please donate one of your URLs to our organization? 
The Fair Wear Foundation had big plans for Tognetti’s URL. Founded in 1999, this nonprofit is dedicated to working with companies and factories to improve labor conditions for garment workers through multiple international initiatives. It just so happened that earlier this year, Jeff Tognetti had the rights to a domain name that perectly suited the Fair Wear Foundation’s newest project: the WellMade Project.
The WellMade Project is a three-year project being run by the Fair Wear Foundation, dedicated solely to helping anyone involved in the garment industry supply chain make their company a better place to work. Funded by the European Commission, the project includes multiple parts, such as:
-Offering training to employees in the European apparel industry on the pragmatic things they can do in their day-to-day work that supports better working conditions in clothing factories
-Speaking at trade shows, expos, fashion shows and more across Europe
-An online library designed specifically to accompany the WellMade Project’s training sessions, as well as provide a free resource – from legal information to pragmatic tips and guides – for workers in the garment industry looking to improve their work environment
It didn’t take long after hearing about the goals of this project for Tognetti to donate the URL wellmade.org to the Fair Wear Foundation; the new website went live in the summer in 2013.
Now, at the end of the year, the project is picking up speed and continuing to do extremely well, especially for being such a new initiative. Since the summer of 2013, project representatives have spoken at multiple shows and events, including:
*The Ethical Fashion Show in Berlin
*The MINT fair during Amsterdam Fashion Week
*Pure London #34
*Munich Fabric Start
Those are just a handful of the events WellMade Project representatives have attended since July 2013; currently, those reps are preparing for a January session at PSI Messe Düsseldorf, a European trade show that will surely welcome them the same way others have: with interest and rounds of applause.
For Tognetti, the donation of a URL was a small thing. In the grand scheme of the Fair Wear Foundation’s work, it’s a single piece of their massive plan. Still, every little bit helps in any cause, and seeing as this website should provide a long-term, free resource to many who truly need the information it contains, Jeff Tognetti is certainly proud to have done what he could to help this cause.