Investments that have been repaid or are otherwise inactive. Total retired investments equal $4,781,713. Investments ranged from $1,280 to $475,000. The average investment was $81,881. The median investment was $38,851.
- 2nd Act Access: Non-profit that builds accessible housing as inspired by Untours co-founder Norma Taussig following a stroke.
- Belu Water: UK water bottling company that donates profits to clean water projects in the developing world. Modeled its profit sharing on Untours.
- Call To Renewal: Non-profit that addresses poverty issues and solutions.
- Cedric: Legal services for low-income people in Pennsylvania.
- Cheryl’s Way To Work: Welfare-to-work program for young people with police records.
- Chester CCIP: Non-profit offering a comprehensive approach to revitalizing Chester, Pennsylvania, through home ownership.
- CitySort: Mail sorting business in Pennsylvania that employed and trained dozens of “unemployable” people.
- Cookman U.M. Church: Pennsylvania church providing job training and 24-hour support to vulnerable populations.
- Cooperative Coffees: Fair Trade coffee roasters. Worked with Untours Foundation to import coffee from Chiapas, Mexico, where farmers lives and livelihoods were threatened.
- Craft Link: Vietnamese cooperative of crafters and artisans that Hal discovered while establishing the Vietnam Untour.
- Fair Trade USA (Formerly TransFair USA): The leading certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States.
- First Nations Development Institute: American Indian businesses promoting economic and social development.
- ForesTrade (Equity and loan): Wholesaler/retailer of Fair Trade Certified products. Established new Fair Trade businesses in post-tsunami Sumatra.
- Freshlook Hair: Environmentally friendly hair-care products.
- Global Exchange: Fair Trade online and storefront retailer. Planners and leaders of study tours to Fair Trade producing destinations.
- Gordy Family: Remodeler of low-income housing in Pennsylvania to prevent foreclosure.
- Greensgrow Farms: Urban farm on a former brownfield that has blossomed to be the center of its Philadelphia neighborhood. Read more.
- Green Seeds: Consulting firm to social justice organizations.
- Green Village Inc. (Equity): Producer of non-toxic industrial cleaning products, employing economically disadvantaged people.
- Hitcharama: Recreational vehicle business hoping to invest in promising entrepreneurs, similar to the Untours Foundation.
- Homecare Associates: Home health care cooperative offering worker/owners (mostly former welfare recipients) training, benefits, and annual profit sharing.
- Honey: Fair Trade honey business in Mexico devastated by two hurricanes in two years.
- Hutton: Cottage industry jeweler.
- Icestone: Designers and producers of high-end, LEED certified counter tops and flooring made with 75 percent recycled glass. IceStone is a B Corp with cradle-to-cradle certification for its start-to-finish “green” practices.
- Iron Man: Mom and pop iron works in Chester, PA.
- Kia: Fledgling beauty consultant entrepreneur in Pennsylvania.
- Little Souls Inc.: Pennsylvania-based collectors’ doll company that hired and trained workers from vulnerable populations.
- Little Souls International: Doll factory established in Sri Lanka by Hal and other partners. Returned profits to the workers.
- My Milkcrate: Connects people to sustainable businesses in their neighborhoods with a mobile app.
- Charles Maden: One-man jitney service in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which donated services to vulnerable populations.
- Mut Vitz: Fair Trade coffee and honey business in Mexico.
- NativeEnergy: Business offering consumers “carbon offsetting” to compensate for non-renewable energy use. Intertribal COUP on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation owns 51% of this business.
- New England synagogue: A loan to import olive oil from a Palestinian, women-led, Arab-Jewish non-profit organization.
- New Threads: Clothing upcycling company that employed 40 people over a four-year period.
- Nia Productions: Minority-owned lawn and snow removal company.
- PACA: Non-profit economic and social development organization for the rural poor in Pennsylvania.
- Philly Fresh Pickles: Minority-owned pickle company now run by Weavers Way Co-op. World’s BEST pickles!
- Pillars: Experimental entrepreneurial incubator inspiring small businesses to pull others along.
- Preserving Sentiments: Minority-owned business offering profit sharing and business training with vulnerable teens in Chester, Pennsylvania.
- SAFE-TY: Minority-owned house cleaning business in Chester, PA.
- SAPECO: Development of worker-owned businesses in Mexico.
- Selene Whole Foods Coop: Defunct food coop in Media, PA that sourced Fair Trade ingredients for local restaurants.
- SERRV: Online and storefront retailer of Fair Trade items. Amazing scout for new products that brings many developing world cooperatives into the Fair Trade system.
- ShoreBank Rehab CD: No-interest loans to minority contractors in Chicago to renovate abandoned buildings for low-income housing.
- ShoreBank Neighborhood Institute: Loans to Chicago projects participating in renewal of affordable neighborhoods.
- Sokhna Soukeyna: One of the first Fair Trade clothing companies.
- Speak Shop: Online language school employing indigenous teachers.
- The Reinvestment Fund
- Child Care Initiative: Child care development in low income neighborhoods in Philadelphia.
- White Dog Foundation: Foundation that launched the “buy local” movement in the Philadelphia area and several other strong organizations, like the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia.
- Witness to Innocence: Non-profit offering support for exonerated death row survivors as they respond to challenges and opportunities post-imprisonment. Empowers survivors and their loved ones to be effective leaders in the abolition of the death penalty.
- YKPR: Establishment of microlending institute in Indonesia.
- Youth Empowerment Services: Non-profit organization that uses art as an avenue to future success for Philadelphia high-school dropouts.
- YWCA of Chester: Non-profit reaching vulnerable populations.