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Nathan Slee
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310-LOAN
Toronto, Ontario

Regarding "Social Capitalists," Fast Company has allowed its article and its credibility to be marred. Monitor Group funds a venture philanthropy organization called New Profit Inc., five of whose portfolio groups were selected for the awards. What an amazing coincidence! I expect more from your magazine.

Marlowe Greenberg
CEO
Foothold Technology
New York, New York

FC responds: Monitor provides office space and consulting to New Profit, which awards funding to new not-for-profit groups. And five of NPI's eight organizations ended up among our winners. We should have disclosed this relationship in our story. However, Monitor and Fast Company recognized and addressed this issue up front. Monitor did not nominate any of the candidate organizations, nor did it participate in interviews with New Profit groups or in the evaluation of those interviews.

Counting Threads

Since the late 1990s, when I was studying for a master's in journalism, Fast Company has been a delightful part of my business reading. I'm writing now because I feel even closer to the magazine after seeing what I never expected to find in FC pages: a few inches discussing the relative merits of Charles Tyrwhitt and Thomas Pink shirts ("Thread-Count Wars," January)! Both shirtmakers seem wildly serious about what they do, which I appreciate to no end.

At the Madison Avenue Tyrwhitt store in December, a salesperson said he was preparing for a London trip to visit the firm's home office. He was bright, articulate, and genuinely interested in his company, which elevated my shopping experience.

Sure, one can find shirts at lower prices, but the combination of a quality product and a plugged-in sales assistant make a Tyrwhitt transaction a true value.

Andrew Carr
Dealer relations manager
Delaware Investments
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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