Podcast: Impact

14: Global Goods Partners – Gifts That Give Back

Buy handmade, change women’s lives. We chat with Joan Shifrin and Catherine Shimony, extremely dynamic and creative women who run this New York-based non-profit brand Global Goods Partners, like a business and with the overall mission to do good and empower women. Their work, resources, and resolve are focused on bridging gaps, opening doors and providing opportunities for artisan women to join the international marketplace.

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9: Two Blind Brothers – Ultra-Soft Clothing With the Sole Purpose to Fund the Cure for Blindness

Bradford and Bryan Manning are two blind brothers on a mission to cure blindness. At a young age, they were diagnosed with an eye disease that causes blindness over time. To fight back, they left their former careers to start Two Blind Brothers, a small charitable clothing company that donates 100% of the profits to drive life-changing research for a cure for blindness. Their condition inspired a special attention for details, a passion that carries over into the construction of their clothing line. Two Blind Brothers focuses on quality, comfort, and “sense of touch.”

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8: Swahili Coast – Worker-Owned, Worker-Managed, Worker-Financed Fashion

Swahili Coast partners with artisans in East Africa to craft ethically handmade, fair trade, adventure-ready accessories.It connect them to global markets using principles of fairness, dignity, and respect. Swahili Coast strives to support the creation of worker-owned cooperatives and provide continuing support through fair exchange and promotion of workers rights in the East Africa region.

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6: Andeana Hats – Working with Women Artisans to Preserve Their Vanishing Craft

Hats that empower women & capture the energy of the Sacred Valley, infusing it into your everyday life. #WearYourIntention

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4: ABLE – Empowering Women by Paying a Living Wage

ABLE is a lifestyle brand focused on ending generational poverty by providing economic opportunity for women. We talk to Jen Milam, director of merchandise planning, about how the brand works to be transparent and accountable in an industry where women workers often cannot meet the basic needs for themselves and their children. She talks to us from their headquarters in Nashville, TN. You can book an #Airbnbexperience at their HQ in Nashville, ​TN and leave with a piece of jewelry.

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