Support and Protect Families in Afghanistan
- supports deminers removing explosives and landmines
- organized by the HALO Trust
New SADLE
- purpose: provides training and employment to socially disadvantaged artisans, many of whom are affected by leprosy, polio and disabilities
- more info: World Fair Trade Organization, Fair Trade Group Nepal
HumanKind Fair Trade
- fair trade store, physical location in San Luis Obispo, ships throughout US
- more info: Fair Trade Federation
Alliance Graphics
- produces custom apparel and promotional products for organizations/groups, union shop, proceeds go to Middle East Children's Alliance
- more info: Middle East Children's Alliance, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Shop Palestine
- sells crafts and food items, provides economic support to Palestinian artisans, proceeds go to Middle East Children's Alliance
- more info: Charity Navigator, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Crossroads Campus
- purpose: transforming lives by creating opportunities for individuals facing poverty and homelessness to care for homeless dogs and cats
- more info: Charity Navigator, REDF
WorldFinds
- fair trade business, focus on working with women artisans, sells jewelry and accessories
- more info: Fair Trade Federation, Chicago Fair Trade, Green America, Good Market
Other Avenues
- worker-owned cooperative grocery store
- more info: US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Wikipedia
Wildflyer Coffee
- coffee shop, provides employment opportunities and support to youth experiencing homelessness, ships coffee within U.S.
- more info: REDF, Charity Navigator
Bottomless Closet
- purpose: to be the connection that inspires and guides disadvantaged New York City women to enter the workforce and achieve success
- more info: Charity Navigator
Just Fare Market
- fair trade shop in Fond du Lac, variety of products and gifts
- more info: Fair Trade Federation
City Art Cooperative Gallery
- worker-owned and operated art gallery
- more info: US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Dollar For
- purpose: crushes medical bills by making charity care known, easy, and fair
- more info: Charity Navigator
Bikes Not Bombs
- purpose: uses the bicycle as a vehicle for social change to achieve economic mobility for Black and other marginalized people in Boston and the Global South
- more info: Charity Navigator, REDF
Entertainment Community Fund
- purpose: fosters stability and resiliency, and provides a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan
- more info: Charity Navigator
SisterWorks
- purpose: to enable all migrant, refugee and asylum-seeker women to become economically empowered through employment, entrepreneurship and social impact
- more info: ChangePath
Cooperation Jackson
- purpose: to advance the development of economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi by building a solidarity economy anchored by a network of cooperatives and other types of worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises
- more info: Charity Navigator, Wikipedia
Vehicles for Change
- purpose: empowers families with financial challenges to achieve economic and personal independence through car ownership and technical training
- more info: Charity Navigator
Saffron Kitchen Project
- purpose: to support displaced and vulnerable people in building healthy, autonomous lives, using food as a toolkit
- more info: GlobalGiving
Classroom Central
- purpose: fosters equity in education by providing teachers and students with the free resources they need to succeed
- more info: Charity Navigator
Zero Waste Silicon Valley
- purpose: to tackle two of California’s most significant challenges at once: systemic barriers to employment for transition-age youth and the annual disposal of 30 million tons of waste
- more info: Charity Navigator
Voces de Nashville
- member-owned cooperative that provides employment for Latina women, provides various Spanish language classes
- more info: US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Daybreak Arts
- purpose: creates artistic and economic opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity by providing them access to the creative resources needed to achieve personal fulfillment and success
- more info: Charity Navigator
Community Culinary School of Charlotte
- purpose: to provide workforce development training and job placement assistance in the food service industry for adults who face barriers to long-term successful employment
- more info: Charity Navigator
Soul Fire Farm
- purpose: an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm and training center dedicated to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system
- more info: Food Justice Certified, Charity Navigator
Planting Justice
- purpose: to empower people impacted by mass incarceration and social inequities with the skills and resources to cultivate food sovereignty, economic justice, and community healing
- more info: Charity Navigator
Hmong American Farmers Association
- purpose: to advance the prosperity of Hmong American farmers through cooperative endeavors, capacity building and advocacy
- more info: Charity Navigator, MPR News
Tap Social Movement
- social enterprise providing training and employment for people in prison and people leaving prison, provides event and venue spaces, sells craft beer, runs a bakery and a brewery More info: Social Enterprise UK, Clinks
Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative
- purpose: to strengthen women’s economic security in Mississippi by making child care affordable for low-income working moms, achieving gender and racial equity in the workforce and making the safety net work for women
- more info: Charity Navigator
Participatory Budgeting Project
- purpose: works with communities across the US and Canada to decide together how to best spend public money
- more info: Charity Navigator