As the world becomes more and more connected, the ability to interact with the world on a global level is becoming accessible to more people than ever before. While some companies only see emerging markets and exponential profits in the global landscape, others are using the opportunity to promote the power of a purchase and make the world a better place. Here we’re talking about 5 brands making a difference around the world.
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SACKCLOTH & ASHES
Sackcloth & Ashes uses 100% recycled, eco-friendly materials to create sustainably produced blankets deeply rooted in the natural vistas that inspired them.
When it comes to making an impact on the world around you, Bob Dalton, founder of Sackcloth & Ashes may have said it best, “If you want to make an impact on the world around, start where you’re at.” When his mother found herself living on the streets, Bob Dalton, knew that the homeless crisis in America was something he could work towards eliminating. After speaking with homeless shelters across the country and finding out they needed blankets, he founded Sackcloth & Ashes and began making blankets. Today, for every blanket Sackcloth & Ashes sells, they donate one to a local homeless shelter.
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Dedicated to Doing Good
In an effort to aid homeless shelters across America, for every purchase of one of their blankets, Sackcloth & Ashes donates another to a local homeless shelter. Through their campaign, Blanket the United States, they aim to donate over one million blankets to homeless shelters by 2024.
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ANCHAL PROJECT
Anchal uses eco-friendly materials and sustainable practices to create hand-stitched, one-of-a-kind textiles that seamlessly stitch together the traditions of handmade craft with the creativity of contemporary design.
It’s rare that a company makes upending the status quo a priority when they are starting out, but that’s exactly what Anchal is doing. Using design and collaboration to challenge the textile industry’s exploitative practices, Anchaol creates one-of-a-kind, hand-stitched textiles that provide economic opportunities for marginalized women around the world. Each vintage textile uses the highest quality of up-cycled cotton saris and is 100% eco-friendly. Through the creation of sustainable products, holistic programs, and global market access, Anchal is using textiles to empowering women to break the cycle of poverty and help them escape a life in the commercial sex trade.
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Dedicated to Doing Good
Anchal is using the power of design thinking to create education courses and employment opportunities for women who were forced into the commercial sex trade, empowering them to transform their trajectory and enhance their quality of life.
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MUDLOVE
MudLOVE is using mission-driven ideals and handcrafted passion to transform mud into humanitarian aid for underserved communities around the world.
Few companies can take literal dirt and transform it into something that provides clean, safe drinking water for millions around the world. But that’s exactly what the people at MudLOVE are doing. They’ve found a way to bring the passion they dedicate to their handcrafted ceramics to the world doing good. With creative fundraising solutions and partnership with Water for Good, MudLOVE is delivering one week of desperately needed clean water to the Central African Republic, for every product sold. To date, they’ve been able to donate over one million weeks of clean water.
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Dedicated to Doing Good
Committed to developing communities around the world, MudLOVE donates one week of clean, life-saving water for every product sold. To date, MudLOVE has ensured that over one million weeks of clean water have been donated to communities in need.
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NEW HOPE GIRLS
New Hope Girls creates gorgeous, inspirational handbags and accessories, sewn by local mothers in the Dominican Republic, that help fund their mission of empowering women through rescue, refuge and restoration.
When the horrors of abuse, neglect, and child exploitation revealed themselves once moving to the Dominican Republic, the people at New Hope Girls knew it was time to act. They quickly set up a safe house so the vulnerable children from the Dominican Republic’s most destitute barrios could find rescue and refuge from the tragedies of daily life. Once there, the children were provided with shelter, education, counseling services--everything they had been deprived of from the outside world. Today, New Hope Girls also operates a self-sustaining workshop, employed by local women in the community, that produces inspirational, hand-sewn handbags and accessories. Profits from every purchase fund both the New Hope Girls safe house and provide economic opportunities at the workshop for women in the local community.
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Dedicated to Doing Good
As a non-profit, 100% of the net proceeds from sales are used to both fund the New Hope Girls safe house and create employment opportunities for women in the Dominican Republic, creating economic stability for the women and their families.
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TWO BLIND BROTHERS
Two Blind Brothers is a purpose-driven apparel company creating clothing that makes a difference you can see and feel.
At Two Blind Brothers, a diagnosis isn’t a defeat. The brothers and founders were diagnosed with Stargardt’s disease, a form of macular degeneration, at a young age. It is a type of blindness in the central vision that leaves the peripheral vision mostly unaffected. Rather than succumb to vanishing vision, they decided to overcome obstacles with optimism and created a clothing company dedicated to incredibly soft clothing and unwavering support in the race to cure blindness. 100% of the profits from Two Blind Brothers sales go to organizations and research programs developing cures to blindness and help restore vision to millions around the world.
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Dedicated to Doing Good
Two Blind Brothers uses 100% profits of their business to directly fund research programs that are developing a cure to Stargardt disease. Each purchase from Two Blind Brothers directly supports efforts to restore vision to millions around the world.
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