Seven friends, who met whilst working at an advertising agency in London, founded two Fingers Brewing Co. in 2013. This was after they realized the need to increase funding for prostate cancer patients. They decided to come up with their own craft beer and donate its profits to prostate cancer charities. Two Fingers Brewing Co.’s
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Totes Amaze The designers behind accessories brand Tathata (www.fb.com/tathatabrand) hooked up with the doctors at Nanh Hospital in Northern Thailand to transform used dialysis bags into fashionable totes, and all for a good cause. The Kiddee Project, which refers to the Thai word for “think positive,” aims to generate funds for the hospital’s kidney disease patients. The
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New York, NY – Acumen, the nonprofit global venture fund, announced today the launch of Acumen America, a portfolio of American social enterprises focused on tackling poverty within the United States. Since its founding in 2001, Acumen has invested $101 million to build nearly 100 innovative enterprises addressing the problems of poverty in Africa, South Asia and Latin
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Piya Sorcar, Clifford Nass, Shuman Ghosemajumder and Ashwini Dosh founded it in 2009 with a HIV/AIDS education Focus. It develops global HIV prevention education technology products through research at Stanford University. The TeachAIDS products are animated, interactive software tutorials, developed for individual cultures and languages, and incorporating the voices of celebrities from each region. http://teachaids.org/
King Soopers became the first grocery store to carry Women’s Bean Project products in 1993. Women’s Bean Project is part of The Colorado Department of Agriculture’s Colorado Proud marketing program. To date, Women’s Bean Project is sold in over 500 retail and grocery locations nationwide, including King Soopers and Safeway (Colorado locations), Ten Thousand Villages, Womensbeanproject.comand online retailers such
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Aarong – Bengali for ‘village fair’ – is Bangladesh’s most popular lifestyle retail chain. This ethical brand began in 1978 as a humble means to empower rural artisans to rise above poverty. Today, with 15 retail stores across Bangladesh and over 100 fashion and lifestyle product lines, Aarong supports 65,000 artisans with fair terms of
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VillageReach was formed in 2000 as a nonprofit corporation, and Blaise, together with Craig Nakagawa, Lionel Pierre, and Didier Lavril, launched VillageReach to address the challenge of healthcare delivery. Since its inception, VillageReach has been led by a team of mission-oriented global health, technology, and business professionals. With the support of a dynamic group of
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We are a retail trade social enterprise that creates stylish products and brands using Philippine indigenous materials and produces value with community partners all over the Philippines. Since 2010, we believe in the potential of indigenous materials to be sustainable sources of design. We believe in the immense talent of community-based producers working hard to make
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The World Health Organization estimates 1 billion people across the world live with disabilities, and Google’s philanthropy division, Google.org, just pledged $20 million to help improve their situations. The money is spread across 29 programs working on disability technologies — the average amount they’ll each receive is $750,000, with six of the grant winners getting
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