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Design that Matters
United States of America
Design that Matters (DtM) a nonprofit based in Salem Massachusetts creates new products that allow social enterprises in developing countries to offer improved services and scale more quickly. DtM has built a collaborative design process through which hundreds of volunteers in academia and industry donate their skills and expertise to the creation of breakthrough products for communities in need. Our goal is to deliver a better quality of service and a better quality of life to millions of beneficiaries through products designed for our clients.
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Nau
United States of America
Nau (pronounced now) is a clothing company based in Portland Oregon. They make sustainable urban outdoor apparel integrated designs for the modern mobile life.They do this by making sustainability and philanthropy inherent in everything they do by blending the tailored and the technical to craft urban and outdoor performance apparel by pioneering premium eco friendly fabrics and crafting clean intuitive silhouettes that arebuilt to move.
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No Sweat Apparel
United States of America
No Sweat is a pioneer of fair trade fashion and footwear setting an empowered unionized workforce as the gold standard for fair trade clothing. The Company's products are produced by independent trade union members in the US Canada and the developing world. Inspired by the belief that more good jobs for Palestinians in Palestine can help the peace process No Sweat Apparel's latest product line is organic cotton t shirts produced at a Palestinian owned unionized sweatshop free factory in Bethlehem on the West Bank.
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Sweet Beginnings
United States of America
Sweet Beginnings LLC makes the family of beelove products an all natural line of raw honey and honey infused body care products. Their honey is known for its complex flavor a result of the varied flora of our urban environment. Their beelove skin care products are of exceptional quality and are all unique in their use of the natural gift of honey as a moisturizer. Not only do they respect the earth in the production of their products but they're also provide important transitional job opportunities for area residents who struggle with barriers to employment.
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TerraCycle
United States of America
TerraCycle manufactures affordable organic fertilizer that is not only made from garbage organic waste composted naturally by worms but also packaged entirely in garbage reused soda bottles. Szaky dropped out of Princeton to pursue this idea. TerraCycle started selling its fertilizer through Home Depot in 2004 and collected more than 2 million plastic bottles in its first 18 months through a recycling program called the Bottle Brigade which generates enthusiasm for recycling among children by allowing them to fundraise for special projects.
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