Below are helpful links to other fair trade organizations. Click on the logos below to find out more about each organization.
Fair Trade Businesses
Artisan Emporia
www.ArtisanEmporia.comArtisan Emporia provides a marketplace for artisans to showcase their crafts. Emporia, being the Latin plural of emporium, denotes their desire to bring the crafts, designs and ideas of many markets to one place.
Their mission is to bring unique and beautiful products from artisans all over the world to North America, as well as build sustainable trading relationships based on mutual respect, cultural curiosity and shared aspirations. Artisan Emporia works with innovative artists and cooperatives from many different countries to bring you one of-a-kind creations that are exquisitely designed and handcrafted. They also work closely with their artisans to ensure that the products are of the highest quality using environmentally sustainable practices.
Artisan Emporia employs the standards of Fair Trade as articulated by the Fair Trade Federation to ensure that the artisans they work with receive an honest and fair price for their products while sustainably preserving their cultural traditions.
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Equal Exchange
www.EqualExchange.coopEqual Exchange has created Big Change since 1986. Their founders envisioned a food system that empowers farmers and consumers, supports small farmer co-ops, and uses sustainable farming methods. They started with fairly traded coffee from Nicaragua and didn't look back.
Today, Equal Exchange continues to find new and powerful ways to build a better food system. They partner with co-operatives of farmers who provide high-quality organic coffees, teas, chocolates and snacks from all over the world, including here in the United States.
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Global Goods Partners
www.GlobalGoodsPartners.orgGlobal Goods Partners (GGP) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering women, alleviating poverty and promoting social justice. GGP partners with community based organizations in marginalized regions of Asia, Africa, the Americas and the Middle East, creating access to the U.S. market for its partners’ handcrafted products and providing technical assistance to build sustainable livelihoods.
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HandCrafting Justice
www.HandCraftingJustice.Cedris.orgHandCrafting Justice is a project of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. They work in cooperation with women struggling for economic justice and independence in the developing world. They support them and assist them in their efforts to create employment for themselves in order to provide for their families and better their lives.
As an international network, HandCrafting Justice works in partnership with women and those in social and economic distress. They promote human dignity and justice by creating opportunities for economic and social transformation.
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interrupcion Fair Trade
www.interrupcionFairTrade.comThe journey toward a sustainable future begins when we interrupt* habitual ways of understanding our personal impact on the world to develop a new, global sense of influence that creates responsible action. This concept of interrupting* to create a more responsible, healthy and sustainable form of participation in society gave them their name: interrupcion*.
interrupcion* is committed to quality, sustainability and transparency. They work to develop sustainable supply chains and partner with the Institute for Market-ecology (IMO), a respected Fair Trade and Organic certifier, and Asociación Civil Interrupcion*, a non-profit development organization to guarantee that each time you buy an interrupcion* product you are directly supporting producing communities and the process toward greater sustainability.
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Lotus Jayne
www.LotusJayne.comAt Lotus Jayne, they sell unique and stylish handmade items from countries all over rural Asia, such as Cambodia, Thailand, India, and Indonesia. Their products are handcrafted in fair trade collectives that are transforming rural villages from utter poverty to self-sustaining economies that preserve the vitality and beauty of their cultures.
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My Fair Roses
MyFairRoses.comMy Fair Roses features Fair Trade Roses from Ecuador. Top quality flowers and plants from around the world as well as locally grown products. Full design and plant care. Fair trade chocolates and other fair trade products also available.
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Pants To Poverty
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Project Bona Fide
www.ProjectBonaFide.comProject Bona Fide is a non-profit organization working toward sustaining culture through organic agriculture, community correlated outreach, and re-forestation projects in Nicaragua. Project Bona Fide has been created out of a need to support rural Nicaraguan farming communities so that they may gain self-empowerment and economic stability. In addition to offering farmers financial and technical support toward gaining international organic certification, Project Bona Fide focuses on establishing much needed fair trade export market* opportunities, preserving natural environments, and focusing on local health and nutrition projects.
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Think Coffee NYC
www.ThinkCoffeeNYC.comThink Coffee serves only the finest coffees and hand-packed teas grown in an environmentally friendly manner and purchased by us in a way that is designed to improve the livelihoods of farmers.
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Triton Export
www.TritonExport.comTriton Exports believes that wine drinking should be a fun and rewarding experience. It is their mission to bring the highest quality South African wines to the states to let American wine drinkers savor the multitude of unique and wonderful flavors that South Africa has to offer.
Most of their wines are organically grown, bear fair-trade certification and have very low sulfite content meaning that you are drinking wine in its purest, most natural form.
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Via Nativa
www.ViaNativa.comVia Nativa Imports, Inc. works directly with independent artisans, community based collectives and non-profit organizations, enabling crafts people responsible for production to earn a sustainable living while preserving their traditional lifestyle. Along with artisans they create fine design and sustainable wood jewelry straight from Nicaragua.
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The Working World
www.TheWorkingWorld.orgAt The Working World, they treat the middle man as nothing more than a tool to connect human producers and human consumers. It is a story they are writing, in real time: the story of the solidarity economy. With the expensive middlemen and their overpriced hype gone, they can cut the price in half. And for everything you buy, you'll see exactly where the money goes: the vast majority of it straight into the pockets of the people who make the products.
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Fair Trade Federation
www.FairTradeFederation.orgThe Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is the trade association that strengthens and promotes North American organizations fully committed to fair trade. The Federation is part of the global fair trade movement, building equitable and sustainable trading partnerships and creating opportunities to alleviate poverty.
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Fair Trade Resource Network
www.FairTradeResource.orgFounded in 1999, the Fair Trade Resource Network (FTRN) seeks to build a more just and sustainable world by gathering, developing, and disseminating educational resources about Fair Trade. FTRN is the only non-profit organization in the world focused exclusively on Fair Trade education, helping people to better understand the impact of their buying decisions.
FTRN also works to create a space for dialogue and exchange within the Fair Trade movement. Whether through in-person meetings or online exchanges, FTRN propels the Fair Trade movement in the US through critical discourse and information sharing.
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Fordham Students for Fair Trade
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Judson Memorial Church
www.Judson.orgAt Judson worship is eclectic, inclusive, joyful, musical and likely to be somewhat different each week. A common pattern is followed but space is made for the surprises of the Spirit. They value times for quiet and reflection as well as a sense of adventure. They expect sermons that challenge us often but also sometimes comfort and heal.
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Mercy Corps
www.MercyCorps.orgMercy Corps is a team of 3700 professionals helping turn crisis into opportunity for millions around the world. By trade, they are engineers, financial analysts, drivers, community organizers, project managers, public health experts, administrators, social entrepreneurs and logisticians. In spirit, they are activists, optimists, innovators and proud partners of the people they serve.
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