Tweet Business of the Day: School House Inc.

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Tweet Business of the Day: School House Inc.

Who: Rachel Weeks, 27, @schoolhouseinc

What: A U.S-based, socially-responsible collegiate apparel company

When:  2008

How:  Weeks was a senior at Duke University when she decided she wanted to bring socially-responsible fashion to the college apparel market. Her first order came from her  alma mater, and in the past two years she has grown to have more than 100 colleges as clients across the country, and moved her operations from Sri Lanka to her home state of North Carolina.

"We now support more than 2,500 jobs in North Carolina through our supply chain," she said.

Where: Durham, N.C.

In her own words: "We wanted to find another way to have a social impact and bring jobs back to the U.S.," she said.