Trusted brands using certified ethical and sustainable business practices.
Yoga on the Inside provides access to trauma-informed yoga and embodied mindfulness tools and practices to help people shift from surviving to thriving. They partner with prisons, youth detention centers, recovery programs, and support organizations to offer group and individual classes for people impacted by incarceration, family violence, substance abuse, psychosocial disabilities, and other marginalized groups. Classes are facilitated by professionally qualified yoga teachers with specialized training in a trauma-informed approach. They are adapted to be accessible for everyone including people with disabilities. Yoga on the Inside reinvests at least 50 percent of all profits towards mentoring facilitators and providing pro bono services to support organizations with aligned values. They participate in forums, communities of practice, and conferences to share the benefits of this practice. Yoga on the Inside is a Social Traders Certified Social Enterprise, the Australian affiliate of the Prison Yoga Project, and a member of Yoga Australia and the Queensland Social Enterprise Council (QSEC).
Yoga Organic Farm cultivates organic food in northeastern Sri Lanka. Crops include turmeric, ginger, cassava, papaya, coconut, moringa, and dry zone vegetables. They practice mixed cropping and produce their own compost and organic inputs from locally available materials. Yoga Organic Farm is verified under a local organic participatory guarantee system (PGS).
Yoga Studio LK offers prenatal yoga, private yoga classes for women, and group classes for kids. They provide opportunities for all ages, abilities, and income levels to develop a yoga practice for reduced stress, improved mobility and strength, and increased physical wellness.
Yogya Macrame's purpose is to support the local community in Ella, Sri Lanka. They create handmade macrame plant hangers, wall hangings, and artwork and contribute 20 percent of sales to community initiatives including workshops for local women. Yogya also provides organically grown rice and vegetables and financial assistance to local people in need. They prioritize environmentally responsible materials and are testing out locally available natural dyes.
Yohan Ceramic promotes local handmade pottery as a safe, environmentally responsible alternative to plastic housewares and imported goods. They produce cups, mugs, bowls, plates, carafes, tea pots, and other products from earthenware clay.
Yolélé was started to create economic opportunity for West African smallholder farming communities, support their biodiverse, regenerative, and climate-resilient farming systems, and share Africa’s ingredients and flavors with the world. Most development funding in the drought and famine-prone Sahel region goes towards chemical-intensive, monocultures of foreign crop varieties. Yolélé is creating a market for traditional crops that are well-suited to the region’s soil and hot arid climate and are grown in resilient, biodiverse local farming systems. Their initial products in the United States are fonio, a nutrient-rich, easy-to-cook ancient African grain, fonio chips, fonio pilafs, and fonio flour. By investing in local smallholder farmers, training them in conservation farming techniques, and developing a fair-trade supply chain, Yolélé is contributing to economic resilience, food sovereignty, healthier soil, and stronger communities. A portion of sales are dedicated to quality of life improvements in their sourcing communities. Yolélé is part of Nourishing Africa.
You Mental supports the mental health and wellbeing of people in Milton Keynes through accessible and affordable early intervention and prevention services. They offer mental health and wellbeing education, small group and one-to-one support sessions, wellbeing hubs, community wellbeing events, and opportunities to participate, share feedback, and engage in advocacy campaigns. Programs are personalized based on the needs and wants of each individual. You Mental is a Community Interest Company (CIC) and a member of Social Enterprise UK, The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), and the Milton Keynes Mental Health Alliance. They reinvest all surplus towards their purpose.
YouMeWe Social Impact Group grows and amplifies conscious leaders and sustainable social impact. They started by interviewing pioneering women leaders across Africa for the YouMeWe Amplified podcast. They now interview women internationally, host a global community, organize tours and events, participate in speaking engagements, publish online resources and books, and offer coaching, consulting, workshops, and training programs. YouMeWe focuses on creating an inclusive and collaborative culture to maximize meaning while attracting, engaging, and retaining colleagues, customers, and collaborators. They are committed to accessibility and provide their podcasts and much of their content for free. A portion of all earnings goes to the YouMeWe Foundation to provide scholarships for women in Africa.
Young Earthlings offers environmentally responsible children's clothing, toys, and accessories. They use organically grown cotton and natural plant-based dyes. Products are designed to minimize waste. This includes mindful pattern cutting, flexible sizing, and quality standards to increase durability. Offcuts are used to make dolls and accessories. Young Earthlings packs products in handwoven palm leaf boxes and other compostable materials.
Youth Enterprises Australia (YEA) mobilizes untapped early career talent and helps young Australians overcome barriers to employment. For industry and government partners, they offer staffing solutions that include recruitment, workforce management, learning, and development. For young individuals aged 18 to 25, they offer a six-month transitional employment program that includes holistic wraparound services, respectful wages, rental support, workshops and training on topics like employability skills, financial literacy, resume writing, and hospitality, and a community of peers, mentors, and facilitators. YEA supports young people facing diverse challenges such as disengagement from school, extended unemployment, disability, unstable housing, and health and wellbeing issues. They also maintain two venues. Hawthorn Hub is a unique and versatile event space suitable for workshops, small classes, and social gatherings. Little Kitchen that Could is a professional kitchen and specialized hospitality training center. YEA is a Social Traders Certified Social Enterprise and a member of Social Enterprise Network Victoria (SENVIC).
Good Market is a curated platform that brings together people creating a better world. All of the vendors on the site have been through an application and review process to ensure they meet Good Market standards and are good for people and good for the planet.
Your Own Underwear (Y.O.U) works with India's leading ethical and sustainable manufacturer to produce fairtrade organic cotton underwear for women and men and bralettes for women and girls. For every pair of underwear sold from their core collection, Y.O.U donates two pairs through Smalls for All. Sales from their Mara range go to support Maasai communities through the Ajuma Foundation. Their light pink range supports the breast cancer charity Future Dreams, and sales of their menstrual cups support Just a Drop with menstrual hygiene programs in Uganda. Y.O.U is committed to showing an inclusive and diverse group of people in their marketing materials and never edits or airbrushes images. They package products in organic cotton bags and mailers made from recycled materials, work with Yago Eco to turn old mailers into recycled plastic earrings, and plant trees through Eden Reforestation, Treedom, and Ecologi. Y.O.U is a registered social enterprise, a member of Social Enterprise UK, and has Living Wage Employer, Fairtrade, GOTS organic, and PETA-Approved vegan certifications.
Yummy Goodness specializes in artisan jams, marmalades and chutneys hand-crafted from traditional forest garden fruits like lovi, biling, naarang, ambarella, and naminan. The products are made in small batches and thickened by slow-cooking the old-fashioned way. Yummy Goodness preserves highly seasonal fruits, which are grown with no synthetic agrichemicals on their own estate. Farm workers receive a range of social services and benefits including housing and profit sharing. Glass jars are reused and fruit waste is composted.
Yunus Social Business is harnessing the power of business to end poverty and the climate crisis. In 1983, Muhummad Yunus established Grameen, which grew from a microcredit bank into a group of social businesses created with the specific intention of solving human problems. In 2011, Yunus Social Business was founded in Germany to expand on the success of the social business model in Bangladesh and spread it around the world. They approach the challenge from two angles. Yunus Funds works from the bottom up to grow local social businesses that provide employment, education, healthcare, clean water, and clean energy to over 13 million people in East Africa, Latin America, and India. They turn donations into long-term patient loans, which they reinvest over and over again, multiplying the impact each time. Yunus Corporate Innovation works from the top down to guide multinationals, help them transform their purpose, and apply their core competencies to the world’s most pressing problems. They assist with social intrapreneurship, social procurement, and the development of corporate social businesses. Yunus Social Business reinvests 100 percent of their profits to scale their social impact.
Yunus Thailand promotes social business and sustainable development in Thailand in order to achieve zero net carbon emissions, zero unemployment, and zero poverty. They incubate and accelerate social business startups, organize events and campaigns, build community, support academic institutions with social business education and research, offer consultancy, social procurement, and fund management services, and co-create social businesses with partner organizations. Surpluses from corporate projects are used to provide free training, support services, and project funding to low-income communities. Yunus Thailand builds long-term relationships while prioritizing the independence and autonomy of the communities they work with. They are a United Nations Environment Program accredited organization, a member of UNESCO's Global Citizenship Education Network, and part of the Yunus network of social business organizations. Yunus Thailand is registered as a not-for-profit organization and reinvests all profits towards their mission.
Zadibal Craft Producer Company Limited (ZCPCL) connects paper mache artisans from Zadibal in Srinagar, India to global markets to revive the craft, enhance artisans’ income, and strengthen their collective representation. They work with clusters of artisans to create handmade paper mache housewares and ornaments using recycled paper pulp, natural pigments, non-toxic water-based dyes, plant-based adhesives, and biodegradable coating. ZCPCL provides stable income, co-ownership opportunities, and resources to help artisans hone their craft and market their products. They contribute to inclusive economic development through local sourcing, community-based production, and tiered pricing.
ZAKKI, which is short for Zakat Kasih, aims to strengthen the Indonesian economy through socioeconomic empowerment of marginalized groups. Their online platform facilitates zakat almsgiving, donations, and voluntary action to support elderly people and people with disabilities who have microenterprises and are still working in the informal sector. They mobilize resources, assist with market access, and form inclusive local community groups to coordinate nutritious meals, simple physical activity, and basic health checks. ZAKKI also distributes aid after earthquakes, landslides, and other natural disasters to help people earn a living and rebuild their lives. The platform was developed by Yayasan Integrity Syariah, which is registered as a not-for-profit organization in Indonesia.
Zaytoun was founded in 2004 to support the livelihoods and resilience of Palestinian producing communities through fair trade. They work with partner farmers and suppliers to offer organic and fair trade olive oil, organic giant couscous maftoul, green wheat freekeh, za'atar, medjoul dates, raw and roasted almonds, olive oil soaps, and Dead Sea bath salts. Zaytoun celebrates Palestinian culinary and cultural heritage, connects people in the United Kingdom and Ireland with Palestinian farming communities, organizes trips to Palestine during the annual olive harvest, and coordinates tree planting through Trees for Life, a program run by the Palestine Fair Trade Association. They are a member of Social Enterprise UK, Co-operatives UK, Scottish Fair Trade Forum, and Fairtrade Ireland. Their fair trade and organic products are certified by Fairtrade International and Soil Association. Zaytoun is registered as a Community Interest Company and reinvests one hundred percent of their profits to support Palestinian farming communities.
Zee Bee Market prioritizes people and the planet by selling ethically and sustainably sourced products from fair trade organizations around the world. They offer unique, handcrafted housewares, clothing, accessories, jewelry, toys, personal care, chocolate, coffee, tea, and more through their St. Louis retail stores and online. Zee Bee Market uses their platform to raise awareness about fair trade and maintains a mix of products at different prices to ensure fair trade is accessible to all. They partner with local nonprofits to organize fundraiser events called Giving Back Days where 15 percent of online and in-store sales are donated over a four-day period. Zee Bee Market is a member of Fair Trade Federation.
Zeki Learning creates fair trade educational toys that economically empower women artisans and refugees in Palestine. They work with experienced educators to design toys that support cognitive development, emotional intelligence, language learning, and interactive play at home or in the classroom. Language learning resources are available in Arabic, English, and Spanish. Products are handmade from locally sourced materials and upcycled fabric scraps and meet international child safety standards. Zeki Learning started as fundraising initiative to support education programs for refugee children in the West Bank and expanded into an artisan center that provides training and livelihood opportunities for refugee and low-income mothers in Zababdeh. Their products are now available online and are used in preschools, Head Start programs, Montessori classrooms, and other child development centers across the United States and Europe. Zeki Learning is a project of Child's Cup Full, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit social enterprise. They are part of The Artesan Gateway and Fair Trade Federation.