Bringing hope to youth culture worldwide.

Pocket Change's vision is to revive youth culture by infusing hope here at home as well as overseas. We want to enable North American youth to rise up and create change in their own communities and the world at large by practically displaying the change we are trying to inspire. We are calling this movement Pocket Change Revive.

Revive Story

How Do We Bring Hope?

Financial Output

Our currrent international project is with the Bethesda House orphanage in Port-au-Prince Haiti. We are raising funds that will go to the building of a well for the orphanage to ensure that all the young residents and staff will have clean drinking water. The cost of this project is $7000 USD to build the functioning well, plus an additional $2000 to install a water purification system in order to remove salt. Although the cost is high, it will ensure clean drinking water for 25 children and 5 staff as well as providing clean water for the local church and school.

Live Different

Live Different is our campaign to inspire the youth here in North America to change their world. We are going to be to coming to schools, youth groups, skateparks, and other spaces where youth come together. There, Jared will share his story to inspire those in attendance to take the responsibility of social justice into their own hands. We also plan to travel with a couple of our partner musicians and bands to bring the culture of the brand with us. Rather than the typical "I did it, so you can too" message, we are going to try and share the resources that we have gathered in the pursuit of our vision. We aim to keep youth engaged with their dreams and encourage them to develop their vision with guidance from mentors.

Community Involvement

This aspect of our vision is still in the developmental stages. Our desire is a strong presence in the communities in our own backyard - to support local movements, youth projects and to showcase local artists. Our current project is to get behind the town of Uxbridge, Ontario and help them build a skatepark. The people of the town have been campaigning for many years and the leadership has finally earmarked funds to build one. Our role is in assisting the pursuit of raising awareness and further funds for the project - through events and campaigns. We love what they are trying to do and will be helping out as much as we can.

How it started.

The seeds for what would become Pocket Change Apparel were planted in 2008 - when teenage founder Jared Henriques recognized the gap between his desire to help the less fortunate and the financial realities of being one of today’s youth. Pocket Change Apparel is in essence a clothing company–dedicated to producing high quality skate and snow apparel–with a commitment to bringing hope to youth culture worldwide.

Officially launched in 2010, Pocket Change debuted with 10 unique shirt designs and has grown since to include several different lines of product and endorsement from a number of artists and athletes. In tandem, the social conscience of the company has adapted to take a more direct role in affecting the youth of the world.

Ultimately, the name Pocket Change Apparel serves as both a name and a reminder–that it’s our youth that will one day lead us–and it starts now, with something as simple as the spare change in your pocket. Through the Pocket Change Revive initiative, Pocket Change gives a portion of it's profits to run projects to build communities both locally and worldwide.