Featuring products from mission-driven businesses around the country, each item below is handcrafted by a talented individual reentering the workforce after overcoming challenges like homelessness or incarceration. Shop now and help support an economy that works. For everyone.
1951 Coffee Company
Brew a cup of coffee from 1951 Coffee Company, a nonprofit that promotes the well-being of refugees by providing job training and employment while educating the surrounding Bay Area community about refugee life.
Beautiful Day
Beautiful Day’s award-winning gifts are proudly made for you by refugees, using only premium ingredients and sent in a beautifully packed box.
Bright Endeavors
Bright Endeavors proceeds support New Moms' nonprofit programs providing housing, job training, college success, and family support. Handmade by the talented young moms in its paid job training program, each Bright Endeavors gift is a symbol of the love, grit, and possibility that participants pour into their work.
Clean 360
Clean 360 offers small-batch, handcrafted bath and body products made by individuals in Oakland who have been disconnected from the workforce for an extended period of time.
Coffee with a Cause
Coffee with a Cause is a nonprofit that trains and employs local youth at Rosebud Coffee. Shop their specialty coffee beans that support youth job training.
CONBODY
CONBODY is a prison style fitness workout that hires formerly incarcerated individuals in New York City to teach fitness classes. Buy a virtual workout pack and do the time with the best trainers straight out of the system.
Danconias Truffle Brownies
These delicious truffle brownies are made by Community Table Kitchen, a social enterprise of Bridge House, a nonprofit that helps adults experiencing homelessness leave the streets behind by employing, housing, and supporting them as they get a foothold to transform their lives.
DV8 Kitchen & Bakery
Giving second chance employment opportunities to people in early stages of recovery, while learning valuable life skills and furthering their education to reach their full potential is DV8 Kitchen Vocational Training Foundation's mission. This Cookie Gift Box includes one dozen homemade soft buttery chocolate chip cookies!
Emma’s Torch
Emma's Torch is a nonprofit social enterprise that equips refugees, asylees, and survivors of human trafficking with the skills ands support they need to build meaningful careers in the culinary industry. Inside each thoughtfully curated holiday gift box, you'll discover a delightful assortment of handpicked products made by our students.
Freedom a la Cart
Freedom a la Cart in Ohio makes meals more meaningful by combining fresh, flavorful cuisine with life-changing employment and support to survivors of human trafficking. Shop their line of EmpowHERment merchandise.
Goodwill San Francisco
Goodwill San Francisco selects some of its best donated treasures to shop online. Purchases fund their mission of creating second chances for people facing multiple barriers to employment through job training programs.
Greyston Bakery
Greyston Bakery doesn’t hire people to bake brownies — they bake brownies to hire people. Gift delicious Greyston Brownies and give the gift of opportunity, self-sufficiency, and success to a hardworking individual.
Ground Up PDX
Ground Up is a not-just-for-profit business providing job training to women overcoming adversity. Their Tasting Flight is the perfect gift to give the nut butter addict in your life!
Havenly
Havenly is a food business run by and for refugee and immigrant women that provides job training, education, and community building. The Havenly Gift Box comes with a ribboned baklava box with 12 baklavas, a scented candle, and an 8 oz jar of delicious plum jam.
Home Start, Inc.
Light up your home with warmth and love with Home Start’s candles, made by young women in their San Diego Maternity Housing Program as they build their capacity to become independent and self-sufficient.
Homeboy Industries
This mouthwatering array of butter cookies from the Homeboy Bakery in LA is made fresh daily by individuals seeking life renewal at Homeboy Industries, the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.
Homeless Garden Project
This bundle for those who can't get enough lavender includes bath tea, lotion, lavender essence, and 6” beeswax candles. All gifts are handcrafted by individuals in Homeless Garden Project's job training program — with local Santa Cruz beeswax, healing oils, and botanicals.
InnerCity Weightlifting
Reduce stress and give back with in-home virtual training sessions from InnerCity Weightlifting. Click below to book a time for virtual training, which supports ICW's mission of ending street violence and fighting systemic racism in Boston.
MADE by DWC
Sun-dried Earl Grey tea leaves fill the air with a tinge of citrus. Joshua Tea is a refreshing reprieve in the hot desert sun. Created with love by the women of MADE by DWC in LA, the Joshua Tree candle funds the Downtown Women’s Center career and mentorship programs that provide hands-on training to end homelessness and change lives.
Mickey’s Popcorn
Made by survivors of domestic violence in Memphis, TN, this gourmet popcorn uses top shelf, double oaked barrel Kentucky bourbon, and has notes of honey and vanilla in addition to the buttery brown sugar goodness.
Mindful Works
Mindful Works offers a wide range of hand-sewn products — from poufs and ottomans to throw pillows. All goods are handmade in Colorado by individuals in recovery from mental health challenges.
Missoula Works
Missoula Works is a Montana based employment social enterprise that aims to provide employment opportunities for marginalized citizens through the creation of a line of bags and packs using repurposed materials. All profits generated from sales of their products will be turned right back into programming and go into creating more jobs.
More Than Words
Youth-designed, this super soft fleece pullover highlights black authors AND supports More Than Words youth, young adults in the foster care system, court-involved, homeless, or out of school.
Mountain Mindful
Mountain Mindful, located in southern West Virginia, hires people who face barriers to employment to create socially and environmentally sustainable products. Shop gifts like this Kitchen Bundle for eco-conscious friends or family members!
Open Arms Studio
Thoughtfully designed from farm to fiber, Open Arms Studio’s Tea Towel is made from Texas-grown organic cotton, hand-dyed from natural dye grown by refugee farmers in Elgin, Texas, and lastly sewn by refugee seamstresses, in Austin, all while earning a fair wage.
Piece by Piece
Piece by Piece is an arts-focused social enterprise that offers opportunities to earn income while creating art to individuals who have faced economic hardship and/or homelessness. These 6-inch vases are created using recycled stained glass, individually handcrafted by Piece by Piece artists.
Purple Door Coffee
When you drink Purple Door Coffee, you’re pouring into the lives of Denver’s unhoused teens and young adults. The Colorado coffee roastery creates opportunities for life change through job training and employment.
Rebel Nell
Shop Rebel Nell’s unique jewelry created in Detroit from repurposed material such as fallen graffiti. Purchases support employment, equitable opportunity, and support services for women overcoming barriers to work.
Refugee Artisan Initiative
Refugee Artisan Initiative partners with refugee and immigrant women to foster an inclusive, prosperous transition to the US through artisan skills training and micro business development. Crafted from repurposed grain and rice bags, this Upcycled Messenger Bag is a symbol of conscious consumerism and support for vital causes.
Remark Glass
Remark Glass is a zero-waste glassblowing studio that offers a stable, supportive work environment focused on the future of recycled glass recovery and manufacturing. The Summer Punch Set includes two glasses and a cocktail pitcher handmade from wine bottles locally sourced in Philadelphia.
Repowered
If you’re shopping for high-quality electronics that won’t break the bank, consider buying refurbished! In Minneapolis, Repowered gives technology a second run and the people who restore it a fair chance, advancing the sustaining health of communities, businesses, and the earth.
Second Story Cards
Second Story Cards creates beautiful, and at times cheekily irreverent, greeting cards, stickers and notebooks while elevating the voices and imaginative talents of people who have experienced homelessness.
Southwest Creations Collaborative
Southwest Creations Collaborative creates dignified jobs and improves educational outcomes for Latine families. Shop their tote bags — perfect for grocery shopping, picnics, the beach, books, and art supplies.
Stroopies
Stroopies, Inc. was founded to provide meaningful employment for resettled refugee women starting their lives over in Lancaster, PA, while making yummy stroopwafel cookies. Stroopies are a cinnamon waffle with a homemade caramel in the center, best rewarmed on top of your favorite hot beverage!
Sweet Beginnings
On Chicago's west side, Sweet Beginnings provides formerly incarcerated individuals with transitional work and teaches job skills through the production of local honey and honey-infused skincare.
Thistle Farms
Thistle Farms works to change the way people see, understand, and support systems that exploit women. They do this by providing safe housing, meaningful employment, and a lifelong community of support. The "In Gratitude" box contains a candle, room spray, matches made by women survivors of prostitution in Nashville.
Unibody Fitness
Join Unibody Fitness, the house wellness and social justice built! Unibody offers in-person and virtual personal training services from their New York studio, all led by formerly incarcerated wellness coaches.
Unshattered
Unshattered's mission is to end the addiction relapse cycle by providing pathways towards economic independence and sustained sobriety for women in recovery. These Handcrafted Toiletry Kits, made from upcycled Southwest Airlines seat leather, are large enough to hold a wide variety of your toiletries, from your shaving kit to your haircare.
UTEC
UTEC’s products are handcrafted by young adults working to carve out better futures. Their cutting boards are made from salvaged New England hardwoods and finished with mineral oil and beeswax for protection.
Vena Vena Handcrafted
Vena Vena Handcrafted was launched from a homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles. These leather bags, accessories, and home goods are all handmade by Vena, a local leather artist.
Wagster Treats
Wagster Treats are healthy for dogs and good for the community! The treats are baked by a dog-loving team building job skills to overcome homelessness and disability. There’s even a Dog Lover's Gift Box!
Wildflyer Coffee
These 12 oz. bags of coffee roasted in Minnesota create employment for youth experiencing homelessness. Single-origins and blends available.
Women’s Bean Project
Women's Bean Project is a Colorado nonprofit with the mission to change women’s lives by providing stepping stones to self-sufficiency through social enterprise. Women's Bean Project's lovingly-handmade gifts are a win-win for every occasion and budget.