TOPIC: SHOPPING (62)

Little Trove

Little Trove is a fair trade company working with artisans in rural communities in Asia and South Africa to create contemporary home and giftware to sell in Western markets. The idea is to bring positive change to the lives of the poor, while creating employment in the artisan communities.

ethical.market

Ethical.market was co-founded in 2013 by London-based husband and wife duo Raquel and Michael, after learning more about the hidden costs of cheap clothing and the terrible toll taken on workers in developing countries. Ethical.market operates with a strict ethos of listing ethical brands who care about the impact of their supply chain and believe in full transparency. Ethical.market provides an alternative for conscious shoppers who don't want to change who they are, just how they shop.

Bly

 Bly is a new travel, shopping and design e-commerce site that lets users travel and shop the world’s bazaars and flea markets.

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Social Impact

Social Impact is the free global app that uses the GPS feature in a iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to display retail social enterprises closest to you RIGHT NOW, wherever you are.
Many of these businesses are restaurants, coffee shops, catering services, bakeries, and ice cream stores, which create local social impact from every dollar you spend. Other listed businesses are "fair trade" stores or social enterprises with online ordering capabilities.

Alfrea

Alfrea, an e-commerce sharing platform, fosters local sustainable agriculture in three ways. First, we help people find space to grow their own food. Second, we offer support services to save time and improve organic growing results. Third, we provide a market for small-scale locally grown food.

Humanity Unified

Humanity Unified is a socially conscious lifestyle brand for the Changemaker, Traveler and Dreamer. Our model is simple, people before profits. We work with local organizations to help fun projects that empower women and children in developing nations through education, sustainable agriculture programs and economic development. 

Gidsy

Gidsy is a marketplace for authentic experiences. Besides booking fun stuff to do, the site allows anyone host activities. Think unique walking tours guided by locals, nature hikes with wild cavemen and exclusive pop-up restaurants hosted by top chefs.

Lucid Eyewear

Lucid Eyewear was created in the heart of Los Angeles with one mission: Design, develop and deliver high quality products that help define individuals through lifestyle, culture, music, fashion and desire. The Lucid passion is to positively influence the world by directly giving back with each, and every, product that is sold - for each Lucid shades purchase, we give a child a Malaria-fighting sleeping net.

Cambio Market

Cambio Market is an online boutique for handmade and ethically sourced products. The market sells jewelry made from upcycled T-shirts, vegan hair accessories to help animal species at risk, and many more ethical products. Every purchase supports social enterprise partners and gives back to a social cause. 

Arova

Arova is a brand of handcrafted, eco-friendly fashion accessories and gift items. Our mission is to provide opportunities for the underprivileged to improve their lives and communities. We do this by creating a marketplace for their products through home parties, events and fundraisers.

Price Grabber

PriceGrabber.com is the industry innovator in online comparison shopping. Millions of consumers use PriceGrabber to quickly obtain free and unbiased information about products, services, merchants and sellers before making a purchase decision. Through continued innovation and consistent focus on providing the best comparison shopping experience on the Internet, PriceGrabber has established itself as the most trusted and effective online destination for savvy shopping.

Hatch

Thanks to our curated community of talented makers, Hatch makes it easy and fun to personalize and customize every product on our site, including jewelry, home decor, and stylish accessories, to make it uniquely yours. Transform any product you see into something you're bound to love.

The Root Collective

The Root Collective is a socially-conscious, ethical fashion company that works with small-scale artisans and cooperatives in developing countries. We work to ensure fair pay and ethical treatment of workers in rural and urban slum communities. We also partner with nonprofits in our 10% Give Back program. We believe that a hand up, not a hand out, can change lives and break the cycle of poverty that plagues many of the communities in developing countries. To this end, we parter with nonprofit organizations that work directly in the communities where our partner artisans live.

Me to We

Me to We is an innovative social enterprise that provides people with better choices for a better world. We offer socially conscious and environmentally friendly products as well as life-changing experiences. Me to We measures the bottom line, not by dollars earned, but by the number of lives changed and the positive social and environmental impact made. Half of Me to We’s net profit is donated to Free The Children. The other half is reinvested to grow the enterprise and its social mission.

Sword & Plough

Sword & Plough is a socially conscious fashion brand that works with American manufacturers who employ veterans. The company recycles military surplus, incorporates that fabric into stylish bags and donates 10% of profits back to veteran organizations.