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Everyone offers thank you gifts in their crowdfunding campaign, usually shiny new products that promise to change your life. What would you say to thank you gifts that touched your heart and truly made you happy? What would you say to crowdfunding gifts that made you feel good? 
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John’s Crazy Socks, the online sock store with a mission to spread happiness, is opening a Mid-Summer Pop-Up Shop at its warehouse in Melville, New York, Monday-Saturday, July 22 - August 3, 2019.
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“Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love Christmas,” says John Cronin.

That love of Christmas led this award-winning entrepreneur to a new dream: open a Christmas store. John has a way of making his dreams come true. John and his father, Mark X. Cronin, co-founded John’s Crazy Socks, now they are turning to an Indiegogo campaign to launch a new online store, “John’s Crazy Christmas Store.”

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On 25-26 June 2019, John and Mark X. Cronin, co-founders of John’s Crazy Socks, participated in the International Entrepreneurial Summit organized by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO).
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When EY announced that John and Mark X. Cronin of John’s Crazy Socks won an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2019 New York Award, history was made in an unexpected way: 23-year-old John Cronin is the first person with Down syndrome to ever win in what is widely considered one of the most prestigious business awards programs in New York and beyond.
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And almost from the beginning, we have worked with ACLD to help carry out our mission of showing what people with differing abilities can do. We work with ACLD in many ways. And we love their tag line: ACLD for an enviable life.
Standing before a packed house and a television audience, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone devoted a portion of his State of the County address to highlight the work of John’s Crazy Socks in hiring people with differing abilities and promoting their rights.
Claudia Fortunato-Napolitano is the Happiness Hero at John’s Crazy Socks. While still a young woman (Claudia is only 36), she suffered a major stroke in January 2017. 
John Cronin and his partner and father, Mark X. Cronin, co-founders of John's Crazy Socks, completed a week-long tour of Canada where they spoke on inclusion and entrepreneurship. The tour was arranged by the U.S. State Department as part of the Department’s U.S. Speaker’s Program.
Claudia Fortunato-Napolitano is the Happiness Hero at John’s Crazy Socks. While still a young woman (Claudia is only 36), she suffered a major stroke in January 2017. Claudia is an essential team member at John’s Crazy socks working to spread happiness and show every day what is possible when you give a person a chance. Claudia is sharing her recovery in this blog, so others can learn of the challenges facing stroke recovery patients and people in recovery can take strength and inspiration from knowing they are not alone.

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