Oke USA was a critical early player in the importing of Fair Trade produce to North America. Importing organic fruit from Ecuador, Peru, and Mexico, they have helped expand Fair Trade beyond coffee. They have partnered with local farmers to source avocados and bananas, paying fair prices to farmers that benefit their families and lift
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Home Care Associates is a worker-owned company that provides skilled home care aides in the greater Philadelphia area. The direct care industry is one that employs a large percentage of BIPOC caregivers in its workforce, and many companies in the industry pay only a small portion of their hourly rate to their workers. The work
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Since the opening of its first storefront in 1950, SERRV International has worked to bring fairly sourced crafts and foodstuffs to market. SERRV sells a wide range of housewares, crafts, clothing, foods, and gifts, all fairly traded and responsibly made. As one of the first Fair Trade organizations in the world, they have extended to
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Greensgrow is an innovative Philadelphia-based urban farm project that works to make healthy, local food accessible to city dwellers and opens new options in food deserts. This creative nonprofit grows food on the former site of an industrial area. They run farm stands, garden centers, demonstration gardens, and educational community programs that revolve around ecology
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Earth and State is a charming shop that sells handmade crafts and unique gifts. A vital part of the small business landscape of Media, PA, the hometown of Untours, this shop offers beautiful things sourced with care. The shop’s name is a cheeky reference to their location of the main drag of Media, State Street.
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Plasticoncentrates is a Black-owned business based in Chester, PA, an underserved community outside of Philadelphia where the Untours Foundation has worked to support community investment and job creation. This manufacturing company produces specialty color concentrates for plastics. They work in the business to business space, offering color master batches and various engineering compounds. Plasticoncentrates has
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Meet Olga, our new Director of Donor Happiness. Olga Corrias Hancock has over a decade of experience in fundraising and alumni engagement in the field of higher education. She worked as the director of Advancement for the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the director of Alumni Relations
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Some of our investments are with organizations and upstarts you have never heard of. Some are small businesses, and some are tiny. We support the little guy and work to fund entrepreneurs who do not have access to the typical financial institutions. With this, we accept more risk to be activists for an economy that
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