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Member Spotlight

  • Creating Kind Karma Through Art

    Creating Kind Karma Through Art

    Lauren Dekleva | June 10, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    Kind Karma is a social enterprise that employs at-risk and transitioning homeless youth in Toronto to handcraft quality jewelry. When founder Laurinda Lee-Retter left university, she suffered from mental illness…

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  • Handmade Candles for Equal Opportunity

    Handmade Candles for Equal Opportunity

    Lauren Dekleva | May 28, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    Dutton Farm Market handcrafts natural candles and beauty products while providing employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Dutton Farm Market’s story began when founder Jenny Brown noticed that her sister,…

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  • The Little Light that Changes Lives

    The Little Light that Changes Lives

    Lauren Dekleva | May 10, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    MPOWERD produces, sells and deploys innovative solar lights and mobile phone chargers globally, ensuring that everyone has access to a safe and affordable source of light. MPOWERD creates clean energy…

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  • Socially Conscious Snacks Create Economic Empowerment

    Socially Conscious Snacks Create Economic Empowerment

    Lauren Dekleva | April 26, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    Peaceful Fruits employs adults with disabilities to produce socially conscious snacks made from sustainably sourced fruit. The seed for Peaceful Fruits was planted when founder Evan Delahanty worked as a…

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  • Buy the Change You Wish to See

    Buy the Change You Wish to See

    Lauren Dekleva | April 12, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    Buy the Change is an online marketplace that creates economic opportunity for women artisans in developing countries by purchasing and retailing their handcrafted products. In 2011, after reading the book…

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  • Unlocking Opportunities for People Experiencing Homelessness

    Unlocking Opportunities for People Experiencing Homelessness

    Lauren Dekleva | March 29, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    Unlocked is a Nashville based social enterprise jewelry company that employs and empowers people transitioning out of homelessness.   Unlocked’s story began when founder Alexis Cook was diagnosed with Lyme…

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  • Ending Homelessness & Building Bright Futures through Baking

    Ending Homelessness & Building Bright Futures through Baking

    Mikaela Clark | March 15, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    Danconias Truffle Brownies is a Colorado based social enterprise that bakes and delivers delectable, high quality treats handcrafted by persons experiencing homelessness. Founder Khaki Fox started Danconias with a simple…

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  • Maternity Clothing Just Got a Fashionable (& Ethical) Facelift

    Maternity Clothing Just Got a Fashionable (& Ethical) Facelift

    Lauren Dekleva | March 1, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    BellaNove is a company that provides expectant mothers with access to quality and sophisticated maternity wear that empowers them to have a career and start a family while reducing the…

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  • Using Coffee to Connect

    Using Coffee to Connect

    Lauren Dekleva | February 15, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    La Terza is an ethical, sustainable coffee supplier that seeks to use coffee as a means to facilitate dialogue and connection in their community.   Founded in Cincinnati, OH, La…

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  • Turning Poverty into Prosperity, One Step at a Time

    Turning Poverty into Prosperity, One Step at a Time

    Lauren Dekleva | February 1, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    deux mains is an ethical and sustainable fashion brand based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is the partner social enterprise to nonprofit REBUILD globally, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty in…

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  • Better Belts for a Better World

    Better Belts for a Better World

    Lauren Dekleva | January 18, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    Jelt is a social impact apparel company founded with the purpose of creating a practical and functional product for everyday use, all while promoting and facilitating social change.   It…

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  • Banding Together to Honor Our Military

    Banding Together to Honor Our Military

    Lauren Dekleva | January 3, 2019
    • Member Spotlight

    ValorBANDS are handcrafted bracelets and wrist cuffs made from authentic, donated military uniforms and produced by veterans and military family members. A portion of sales is also donated back to…

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  • Making Sure Social Enterprises Are All Good

    Making Sure Social Enterprises Are All Good

    Lauren Dekleva | December 10, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    The All Good Work Foundation provides social impact organizations access to coworking spaces and business centers in New York City and Silicon Valley. Offering this professional workspace reduces the cost…

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  • A Helping Hand Out of Poverty

    A Helping Hand Out of Poverty

    Lauren Dekleva | November 26, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    HHP/helping hand partners is a non-profit corporation that supports their partners by introducing artisan and opportunity employment social enterprise goods to new channels of distribution.   Often, these are channels…

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  • Because Everyone Deserves a Chance to Succeed

    Because Everyone Deserves a Chance to Succeed

    Lauren Dekleva | November 7, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Because International is an organization focused on leveraging the positive cycle of innovation to combat the negative cycle of poverty.   It all started with a shoe. In 2007, founder…

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  • A New Conversation in the Body Positivity Movement

    A New Conversation in the Body Positivity Movement

    Lauren Dekleva | October 26, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP) is an intersectional body-positive organization that provides community-based support and education for people of color and indigenous descent who are struggling with troubled eating and poor body…

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  • Citizenship Made Simple

    Citizenship Made Simple

    Lauren Dekleva | October 12, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    SimpleCitizen is a digital immigration and visa solution designed to streamline the pathway to citizenship – essentially, TurboTax for immigration.   As the only truly comprehensive solution to successfully navigate…

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  • Chasing Opportunity for Chicago’s Youth

    Chasing Opportunity for Chicago’s Youth

    Lauren Dekleva | September 28, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Chasing23 Youth Empowerment Group is a community-based organization providing opportunities for young men of color who are out of school, out of work or facing trouble with the law. With…

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  • Breaking Poverty Cycles Once and For All

    Breaking Poverty Cycles Once and For All

    Mikaela Clark | September 17, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Cara is a non-profit social enterprise committed to its local community by building pathways out of poverty for Chicago families. Born out of a desire to rebuild hope and opportunity…

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  • Bringing Hope to Food-Insecure Communities

    Bringing Hope to Food-Insecure Communities

    Mikaela Clark | August 31, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    The Trap Garden is a 501(c)3 nonprofit social enterprise that provides a sustainable source of healthy, high quality foods and offers innovative solutions to the physical, financial and educational shortcomings…

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  • Building Interfaith Communities Through Food

    Building Interfaith Communities Through Food

    Mikaela Clark | August 17, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Abe’s Meats is a social enterprise on a mission to make high-quality religious foods more accessible, nutritious and delicious for all. Their meat products are the first of their kind…

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  • Tech for Literacy, Education and Accessibility

    Tech for Literacy, Education and Accessibility

    Mikaela Clark | August 3, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    BeeLine Reader is a tool making online reading faster, easier and more accessible. What started as a speed-reading tool for adult professionals has quickly grown to help students, children in…

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  • Life Learned Through Caring for Others

    Life Learned Through Caring for Others

    Mikaela Clark | July 19, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Crossroads Campus is a nonprofit social enterprise using the healing power of animal care to transform the lives of young adults in the Nashville area. Through job training and employment…

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  • Increasing Quality of Life with Tech Accessibility

    Increasing Quality of Life with Tech Accessibility

    Mikaela Clark | July 6, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Knowbility’s mission is to advocate for people with disabilities by ensuring that web-based applications are accessible and inclusive to all people. The organization was built on values of social inclusion,…

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  • A Home, a Second Chance, a New Life

    A Home, a Second Chance, a New Life

    Mikaela Clark | June 22, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    The Other Side Academy is a self-sustaining residential life-skills and vocational training program for the persistent repeat-offenders, drug addicts and homeless. With the revenue they generate from their social enterprises,…

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  • Health, Wealth and Social change

    Health, Wealth and Social change

    Mikaela Clark | June 8, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Appetite For Change uses food as a tool to build health, wealth and social change in North Minneapolis. Through community-driven programming and a food-justice-minded approach, they are committed to using…

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  • Healing Kids & Connecting Communities with Music

    Healing Kids & Connecting Communities with Music

    Mikaela Clark | May 24, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Care2rock is a social enterprise that virtually pairs teachers with students to learn any musical instrument on a custom live video platform. Along with these virtual lessons, music teachers at…

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  • Winning the War on Slavery and Poverty

    Winning the War on Slavery and Poverty

    Mikaela Clark | May 8, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Millions of people live in poverty and slavery every day. CAUSEGEAR is a social enterprise using accessories and apparel to change that — by giving women in poverty sustainable job…

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  • Building Roads to Brighter Futures for Foster Youth

    Building Roads to Brighter Futures for Foster Youth

    Mikaela Clark | April 27, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Doing Good Works is a social enterprise that uses a portion of the profits from its promotional and custom branded products to improve lives in the at-risk and foster youth…

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  • Impacting Lives One Bar of Soap at a Time

    Impacting Lives One Bar of Soap at a Time

    Catherine Jackson | April 13, 2018
    • Member Spotlight

    Soapbox, a luxury hygiene brand, emerged in response to the reality that access to hygiene is not universal. Their solution: educate and encourage consumers to make a routine habit, such…

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