Bright Endeavors trains, employs and mentors young mothers in Chicago (between the ages of 16-24.) to make candles, 100% of the proceeds from each candle go to supporting the young mom who made it by providing income and helping her: finish her education, get into college, earn a job offer, and provide a safe home for her children. Made with soy wax & phthalate-free fragrance.
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The Created Co – “Bicycle” Mug
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A great style mug for your morning beverage with a fun bicycle design to start your day with a smile. The Created Co. sells fun drinkware. Coffee mugs to help you get going and barware to help you chill out. They’ve partnered with Charity: Water—a non profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. For every purchase made 10% of net profits get donated to help build wells that bring clean water to those in need.
Indosole – “Women Sea Salt” ESSNTLS Flip Flops
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Give Back: Your purchase takes used tires out of landfills.
Indosole makes shoes out of old tires…. The details: When Indosole founder Kyle Parsons traveled to Indonesia, he heard about landfills spontaneously combusting due to the amount of tires thrown in every year and due to their structure, tires take thousands of years to decompose. So technically the first tire ever made is still out there somewhere.
So how do we keep more tires out of landfills? Well, Indosole up-cycles them into stylish and durable footware. And the “upper” part of the shoe is made out of natural and sustainable materials. Learn more about the process.Â
Noonday Collection – “Bouquet Bracelets” Set of 5
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Give Back: Your purchase provides sustainable employment to one of 29 artisan businesses in 12 developing countries and 10% of sales at Adoption Trunk Shows are donated to families in the process of adopting a child.
To make a difference in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities, Noonday Collection partners with Artisan Businesses that share their passion for building a flourishing world. They develop these businesses through fair trade, empowering them to grow sustainably and to create dignified jobs for people who need them.
To showcase theses goods, Noonday empowers women to become stylists, storytellers and social entrepreneurs called Ambassadors. Over 1,700 women have launched their own Ambassador businesses. By selling jewelry and accessories at Trunk Shows, these Ambassadors are styling their friends and changing the world!
The first Noonday Trunk Show was a fundraiser for Founder Jessica Honegger’s adoption from Rwanda. Five years later, Noonday continues to give 10% of sales at Adoption Trunk Shows to help adoptive families bring their children home.
4Ocean – “Signature Bracelet”
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The purchase of this bracelet (made from 100% recycled materials) removes one pound of trash from oceans and coastlines. In 2017 more than 250,000 pounds of trash were removed in 16 different countries.
Preemptive Love Coalition
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Preemptive Love goes into the front lines of the world’s most polarizing conflicts—in places like Syria and Iraq, and work with with locals to help provide local solutions to local problems. Solution like: life saving heart surgeries for children, emergency relief for families victimized by Isis, finding grants for small business owners, suppling education for high-risk children, facilitating peacemaking in conflict-zones, and counseling policy makers in Washington, Baghdad and beyond.
The products featured on Good Business are all handmade by refugees and give people who have lost everything a way to start rebuilding their lives. They already have the skills and knowledge they need to support themselves, Preemptive Love Coalition just helps get them the access and tools the need to get started. Your purchase completes the cycle, giving you an artisanal, all natural soap and the person who made it a sense of purpose and the pride of being able to support their family.
Preemptive Love’s mission is all about giving a hand up not a hand out, so they’ve made it possible for you to purchase items for displaced families that will be the first step to recovering financial independence.
Their work stretches beyond Iraq, Syria, Â and the United States and is fueled by their three core values:
Love anyway. Show up. Get out of the way.
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