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All over the world, there are passionate brands that are working to fight hunger, protect animal rights, preserve the environment and more. Meet Miigle+, its mission is to help you find those brands, effortlessly. Miigle+ is an AI-enabled app that helps you discover, shop and support social impact p

Meet the American manufacturing company Recover Brands. Recover strives to create the best, most environmentally friendly and socially responsible products possible.

Meet social eco-preneurs Kate Bogue Miller and Justine Lassoff, the dynamic duo bringing you LOVE GOODLY, a new vegan subscription box filled, nontoxic, and cruelty free lifestyle products. Their high standards for product transparency, updating their banned ingredient list consistently, while givin

Indonesia’s first privately run floating hospital boat brought a tidal wave of change in the sea of poverty, providing critical healthcare services, often for the first time, to some of the country‘s most underserved communities. The Indonesian archipelago consists of over 17,000 islands, many of wh

Meet Joy McBrien, an inspiring female social entrepreneur, and founder of Fair Anita. Fair Anita is a Public Benefit Corporation committed to creating economic opportunities for marginalized women all over the globe. Joy’s core belief is investing in women at every level. After learning financial in

Sarah Todd was discovered as a model and moved to Australia at the age of eighteen and spent the next ten years globe-trotting, walking the runway and shooting photo spreads for the likes of Gucci, Hugo Boss, Pantene and Seafolly. After a decade of modeling in London, New York, Germany, Australia an

Meet COMUNITY, a new shoe brand creating socially conscious sneakers and looking to innovate the industry. Three footwear industry veterans with past collective experience from TOMS, ASICS, Nike, Vans and Sanuk, have joined forces to launch this premium-quality, small batch footwear company headquar

Meet S a y a Designs, the new social enterprise creates ethical wooden hairpins from roots salvaged from old plantations. Each hairpin purchased will plant up to 10 endangered trees. The new company believes being environmentally friendly is fashionable in itself. Inspired by nature and handmade by

Toronto-based social enterprise, Go Java, has finally taken the step we all needed – they are recycling the coffee pods we all feel guilty about tossing in the garbage! The small business has quickly grown across Toronto and its major suburbs, providing home and office delivery of your favorite coff

Original article from Umundze — Together for Social Change One of the key issues to the community involvement around a social project is how to inspire people to change habits and embrace new solutions that might improve their lives and their community. I find the act of visioning an Utopia as the f

“What do countries like Nepal, Kenya and Afghanistan have in common? They are home to extraordinary craftsmen and craftswomen that lack access to global markets.” Across the developing world, there are thousands of talented artisans that are disconnected from the global market. Isolated, and often e

Tribalingual is an online language learning platform that teaches rare and endangered languages through online course content and personal Skype sessions with a language instructor. Half of the world’s 7000 languages are expected to disappear by the end of the century. The purpose of Tribalingual is

Meet Sol Organics , an innovative company disrupting the luxury sheet market with fair trade, GOTS certified, organic luxury sheets and bedding – at half the price of standard luxury sheets and a mission to help the planet. Sol Organics is cutting out the middle man and going direct to  the consumer

Meet Aurate, a New York based ethical jewelry company founded in 2014 by Sophie Kahn and Bouchra Ezzahraoui. The fine jewelry brand offers ethically-sourced luxurious jewels with a one-for-one model embedded in its foundation. The brand has partnered with Mastery Charter to provide one book to a chi

A recent report released by the Business & Sustainable Development Commission is a a great snapshot of the global sustainable development trend. The Better Business Better World report covers the recently released UN Sustainable Development Goals and how business leaders and social innovators have a

They say “necessity is the mother of invention” and in the case of the EMPWR coats, it couldn’t be more true. The water-resistant jacket, hand-crafted from top quality materials, doubles as a sleeping bag or an over-the-shoulder bag when not in use and is specifically made for those living on the st

This will mark the 4th edition of the Social Entrepreneurs to watch for list. If you want to check out the previous years social entrepreneurs you can see them here(2014, 2015, 2016). Over the years I have had the great pleasure of speaking with over 100 social entrepreneurs while running Causeartis

Vijoy Rao started his first band when he was 15 years old and he and the band had no gear. They decided to build their own stuff using duct tape and junk found in his parents’ basement. That room was always there for the band it never let them down and fueled creativity. It was like the…

We recently caught up with Khizr I. Tajammul, the founder and CEO of Jaan Pakistan – a social enterprise, researching and producing affordable renewable energy solutions for low-income communities across Pakistan.

Here is a curated list of the top social good Black Friday social good deals from impact brands across the web. You are going to shop anyway, so why not add a little social impact into your day. Happy Holidays and good luck shopping this year. MyClo – Oatmeal Camper Hat – $38 MyClo is a new social…

The destructive deluge of plastic waste blighting our oceans is a huge environmental problem. 5 trillion pieces contaminate our seas and the accumulation is set to quadruple in the next 20 years. In fact, there is expected to be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. The large mass of fishing ne

That Willy Wonka (RIP Gene Wilder) was many things: an innovative confectionary maverick, whimsical candy dandy, and you could say, a childhood obesity opportunist. If he was a real-life choc baron, I’m sure Jamie Oliver would have a few strong words against his kaleidoscopic, kid-fattening operatio

From the man who struggles to grow his crops, to the child who tries to collect water from her broken well, to the woman who breathes in toxic cooking smoke every day, extreme poverty plagues our world. It’s there in the most rural of places to the most industrial of cities. And, it won’t disappear…

Around the world, a new wave of low-impact, ethical supermarkets are ripping up the rulebook, encouraging us to rethink how we consume products and engage with our local public spaces. The pioneers behind these grassroots enterprises are seeking a new economic model, one that champions community, em