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Disaster Mitigation Institute
Disaster Mitigation Institute (DMI), India, is a community based action research, action planning and action advocacy non-governmental organisation. It works to reduce disaster risk of vulnerable communities by promoting mitigation efforts, through learning and action. These include food, water,...
Opportunities for the Majority: Bank initiative that promotes and finances private sector business models
The Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) Initiative promotes and finances market-based, sustainable business models that engage private sector companies, local governments and communities in the development and delivery of quality products and services for the majority of the population of Latin...
Clothes Line Incorporated
Clothes Line Incorporated is a fully endorsed Sydney based, not-for profit organisation, which provides good quality clothing and other essential items, free of charge, to the homeless and disadvantaged. Clothesline does not receive any government funding and all our staff are volunteers. The...
Chaka MarketBridge
Chaka MarketBridge is an American company that exists to provide customers with access to high-quality and stylish, handmade products; to provide undiscovered, impoverished artisans with the global market they need to grow and succeed; and to connect artisans and customers in both fair trade and...
Cafédirect
Cafédirect is a UK-based alternative trading organisation. It is currently one of the largest Fairtrade hot drinks companies in the world. As well as coffee, Cafédirect has a hot beverage range that includes 100% Fairtrade tea and hot chocolate. Cafédirect works with over 260,000 coffee, tea,...
Corporate Social Responsibility in China: An Analysis of Domestic and Foreign Retailers' Sustainability Dimensions.
This paper discusses the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in China through an exploration of the way in which CSR operates in large retailers both in the Chinese and the international context.
Handmade Expressions
Handmade Expressions is a for profit company established in the USA. The company aims to promote economic and social well-being by selling Fair Trade products, many of which are made in India, and promoting the cause. A member of the Fair Trade Federation, the company works with a number of artisan...
Traidcraft
Established in 1979 as a Christian response to poverty, Traidcraft is the UK's leading fair trade organisation. Traidcraft runs development programmes in some of the poorest countries in the world, and campaigns in the UK and internationally to bring about trade justice. The organisation...
Ruma
Ruma is a social enterprise that aims to empower the poor in Indonesia by providing pre-packaged business opportunities complete with an equipment package, a strong brand, marketing materials, initial training, ongoing mentoring and access to a supply chain. Its flagship microfranchise business,...
Greyston Bakery
Greyston Bakery is a for-profit company offering high quality gourmet products. Based on a social enterprise model, Greyston Bakery aims to be a force for personal transformation and community economic renewal, offering onsite training, fair wages, health benefits and opportunities for direct...
Give Something Back Business Products
Give Something Back Business Products (GSB) is a for-profit business based in Oakland, California. It was established in 1991 by Mike Hannigan and Sean Marx to sell business products for less while donating a significant share of profits back to the community in the form of charitable...
Artisans du Monde
Artisans du Monde, established in 1974, was the precursor of the FairTrade movement in France. The organisation now acts as the distribution network for the movement in France, running shops that stock 100% FairTrade products. Artisans du Monde also has an educational and advocacy role. ...
San Arts and Crafts
San Arts and Crafts exists as a sustainable channel for primarily San producers to access external markets, and for wholesaling their art and crafts. It is currently the only IFAT (International Fair Trade Association) registered organisation in Botswana and the only Propriety Ltd Company within...
Fair Trade Egypt
Fair Trade Egypt (FTE) is s nonprofit organization whose goal is to empower Egyptian artisans through the practice of fair trade. FTE surveys the developing areas of the country, finds local treasures that have been traditionally manufactured for centuries and brings them to consumers. FTE...
Tata launches low-cost water filter
India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease.