"Better Than Fair Trade" Roll Call
This Christmas season, I've spent a lot of energy telling you all about the different "better than fair trade" organizations I love, why I love them, and which of their products I love the most. But it turns out, I got a little carried away. And it turns out, that all of the many lists may not be conducive to actual shopping.
So consider this a "who's who" of organizations that do good, with minimal details (I will do very best to bite my proverbial tongue/fingers). Consider this roll call my "Gifts that Give" Cliff's Notes. Now go and shop and do good.
Delicate Fortress
- Products they offer: Accessories, apparel, jewelry, home decor, skin care, men's products, bags, children's items
- Benefits: Many different causes and groups around the world
- What makes them unique: One stop shopping for many different products and causes
Purse & Clutch
- Products they offer: Purses and other bags, home decor
- Benefits: Women artisans around the world
- What makes them unique: Products are super trendy
- Special offers: Use code FOSTERTHEFAMILY for free shipping
Hope Outfitters
- Products they offer: T-shirts and other apparel for adults and kids
- Benefits: Many different causes and vulnerable people around the world
- What makes them unique: Donates 100 PERCENT of all profits, Christian company
Purpose Jewelry
- Products they offer: Jewelry
- Benefits: Women in India who have been rescued from trafficking through iSanctuary
- What makes them unique: Directly connected to one organization that doesn't just employ women but holistically cares for them
- Special offer: Use code FOSTERTHEFAMILY for free shipping
Dsenyo
- Products they offer: Children's toys and clothing, jewelry, purses, decor
- Benefits: At risk women in Africa and Brazil
- What makes them unique: Many of their products are for children
- Special offers: Use code FOSTERTHEFAMILY to save 20% on your order
Made By Survivors
- Products they offer: Jewelry, photographs, bags, scarves
- Benefits: Survivors of modern slavery in Thailand, Cambodia, India, and Nepal
- What makes them unique: Constructed a shelter for 125 survivors in India
- Special offers: Use code FOSTERTHEFAMILY to save 20% on your order
MudLOVE
- Products they offer: Personalized and inspirational clay bands and necklaces, mugs
- Benefits: Water for Life or the cause of your choice
- What makes them unique: You can shop by cause!
Buy the Change
- Products they offer: Kantha quilts and other products, jewelry, baskets, bags
- Benefits: At-risk women in Cambodia, India, Thailand, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Haiti, Uganda
- What makes them unique: Besides paying a fair wage, they have a foundation that benefits the communities of the women they employ
East Coast Benefactory
- Products they offer: Leather mason jar holders, leather jewelry, frames, hand-painted signs
- Benefits: 50% of every purchase goes to Sole Hope
- What makes them unique: "Just" a mom on a mission, creating & selling & donating, hand-made products
My Sister
- Products they offer: Inspirational, pro-women shirts
- Benefits: MN Girls Are Not For Sale, trafficked women in US
- What makes them unique: Created in US, products benefit women in US
Mercy House Global
- Products they offer: Jewelry, clothing, bags, greeting cards, decor, toys and kids' products, Christmas ornaments
- Benefits: Mercy House Global
- What makes them unique: Products created by single moms at maternity home in Kenya, Christian organization
The Parative Project
- Products they offer: T-shirts, flags
- Benefits: Women who have been rescued from trafficking in India
- Special offer: Use code FOSTERTHEFAMILY to save 10% on your order
Eden Ministry
- Products they offer: Jewelry
- Benefits: Women rescued from trafficking in Asia
- What makes them unique: Holistic view of healing and restoration, Christian organization
Women of Hope International
- Products they offer: Note cards embellished with fabric and banana leaves, headbands, Christmas ornaments
- Benefits: Disabled women in Sierra Leone
- What makes them unique: Primarily cares for women and secondarily employs them, Christian organization
Ransomed Cuffs
- Products they offer: Re-purposed leather cuffs
- Benefits: Children in foster care
- What makes them unique: "Just" a mom on a mission, creating & selling & donating her profits
Unlock Hope
- Products they offer: Inspirational shirts
- Benefits: Girls in Uganda
- What makes them unique: Donates more than 100% of profits and fully funds the Think Humanity Girls Hostel in Uganda
Greater Bean Coffee
- Products they offer: Coffee
- Benefits: Orphans in central Africa
- What makes them unique: Ethically-sourced, small-batch, hand-roasted coffee, Half of every purchase goes to orphan care
Feather Refuge
- Products they offer: T-shirts with orphan care message for adults and kids
- Benefits: Psalm 82:3 in Liberia, Beechacres Parenting Center benefitting foster parents
- What makes them unique: "Just" a mom on a mission, creating & selling & donating her profits
Rice Bowls
- Products they offer: Adult coloring books, t-shirts
- Benefits: Rice Bowls, feeding children in orphanages
- What makes them unique: Primarily a charity organization that sells a few products to benefit their work, Christian organization
Sole Hope
- Products they offer: Shoes, shirts
- Benefits: Sole Hope, treating and preventing foot related diseases in Uganda
- What makes them unique: Primarily a charity organization that sells a few products to benefit their work, Christian organization
Rahab's Rope
- Products they offer: Jewelry, scarves, bags, decor, journals
- Benefits: Women rescued from trafficking in India
Sari Bari
- Products they offer: Kantha quilts, bags, scarves
- Benefits: At-risk women in India
