Thirty-One Gifts announced it is closing. In a video statement made to representatives yesterday, Founder Cindy Monroe informed field leaders that the company would be closing. The official end date is expected to be effective before the end of 2024.

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In her book, Monroe shares her experience building Thirty-One Gifts as a young mom with little to no experience in business, describing herself as “one of the least likely people to launch and lead one of the largest direct selling companies in North America.”

Thirty-One Gifts announced it is once again partnering with Girls on the Run, a nonprofit that helps girls develop essential skills for physical and emotional health and fitness, through its own philanthropic initiative Thirty-One Gives. “Our partnership with Girls on the Run is born from our common goal of empowering girls,” said Cindy Monroe, founder of […]

ON JULY 15, 2020, Katherine Chiglinsky splashed the news on Bloomberg; Thirty- One Gifts, founded by Cindy and Scott Monroe in 2003, a direct selling company, now had a new partner. Kanbrick, the new investment firm founded by Tracy Britt Cool and Brian Humphrey, had taken a stake in Thirty-One Gifts. Kanbrick, recently founded in […]

Cindy Monroe to step down from chief executive officer role Tracy Britt Cool, a former key deputy to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is taking an ownership stake in Thirty-One Gifts. Kanbrick, the investment firm led by Britt Cool and co-founder Brian Humphrey, will become a partner and owner with Thirty-One Gifts founder Cindy Monroe, according […]

Thirty-One Gifts and the Harlem Globetrotters have joined the On Our Sleeves™ Movement, a national effort to transform children’s mental health. The movement, spearheaded by Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, was created to address the fact that one in five children is living with a mental condition. Organizations like Thirty-One Gifts and the Harlem Globetrotters are supporting the platform […]

Thirty-One Gifts and the Harlem Globetrotters have joined the On Our Sleeves™ Movement, a national effort to transform children’s mental health. The movement, spearheaded by Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, was created to address the fact that one in five children is living with a mental condition. Organizations like Thirty-One Gifts and the Harlem Globetrotters are supporting the platform […]

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Thirty-One Gifts founder and CEO Cindy Monroe was recently inducted into the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) Gary W. Rollins College of Business Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Monroe, the founder of one the biggest direct marketing companies for women and the head of one the biggest minority-owned companies in Tennessee, attended the ceremony at […]

Thirty-One Gifts and its charitable program, Thirty-One Gives, has launched a spring fundraising campaign to transform mental health services for children in the U.S. and Canada. Now through May 31, Thirty-One Gives will focus on raising awareness to break mental health stigmas through kindness while raising funds to support critical life-changing mental health research at […]

Thirty-One Gifts recently announced that both its corporate headquarters and distribution center will be relocating. The company will move its corporate headquarters from its current location near Easton in Columbus, Ohio, to New Albany, which is just northeast of Columbus, in early January 2019. About 300 people will move to the new headquarters. Cindy Monroe, […]