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deshiya promotes healthy natural and organic foods, supports local producers and farmers in Sri Lanka, and helps preserve traditional practices. They offer kithul treacle and jaggery from forest gardens in Kothmale, honey from beekeepers in Vakare, organic certified coconut oil from farmers in Mawathagama, and other sustainably sourced natural products. deshiya ensures rural producers receive fair compensation, practices are environmentally responsible, and products are free from additives. They maintain low margins to keep healthy natural food accessible and affordable.

Design for Social Impact Lab aims to revolutionize social impact work by challenging conventions and fostering inclusive and sustainable solutions grounded in equity-based design thinking, anti-racism, and decolonial and feminist-informed principles. They provide purpose-driven organizations, entrepreneurs, and practitioners with the training and tools to create transformative programs, policies, and research. Their workshops, courses, and accredited learning programs are available in-person and online and are designed for accessibility and inclusion. Design for Social Impact Lab trains facilitators from historically underrepresented groups and works with social impact partners to support real-life problem-solving. All partners demonstrate their commitment to diversifying the sector through equity audits and equity design training. Design for Social Impact Lab offers courses for free or at discounted rates to historically underserved groups. They are a member of Social Enterprise UK and reinvest at least 10 percent of their proceeds towards social impact projects.

Design Station produces wooden housewares from natural, local materials. They source maara, nedun, and teak wood from suppliers that are registered with the Sri Lankan government. Design Station specializes in food-safe wooden cups, saucers, plates, pitchers, candle holders, and storage containers.

Desmond Liggett Wealth Advisors is a mission-driven, fee-only financial advisory firm that focuses on building and managing impactful, resilient financial strategies and investment portfolios for the individuals, families, small business owners, and non-profit organizations they serve. They believe in and adhere to triple-bottom-line analysis for portfolio investments, which means they review how a company’s environmental and social values impact its long-term resilience and, consequently, value. Desmond Liggett also provides services for local and global impact investment. Although they do not directly manage this type of alternative investment, their team has experience identifying and analyzing investment opportunities with high social and environmental impact and is able to offer independent consultation and due diligence support.

Destiny disrupts the cycles of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Kolkata by providing tailored holistic support for vulnerable women and girls and training and employing survivors to create environmentally responsible handmade products. They specialize in bags, scarves, notebooks, blankets, and other housewares made from recycled saris and block print local cotton fabrics and fill custom orders for partners around the world. Destiny runs a community center in one of Kolkata's largest red light districts and focuses their outreach on nearby brothels and shelter homes. Each person has different requirements, but safe accommodation, education, economic empowerment, and a long-term community of friends and mentors are the key pillars for success. Destiny Reflection is registered as a business and contributes all surplus to Destiny Foundation, a registered charity that focuses on outreach, training, and other support services.

Developers Academy identifies, nurtures, and develops socially focused entrepreneurs and innovators within the Oti, Volta, and Northern regions of Ghana. They offer incubation and acceleration programs for unemployed youth, marginalized women, and people with disabilities with a focus on entrepreneurship, technology, vocational skills, and agribusiness. They also deliver education programs for students and teachers including Literacy4All, STEM4Girls, Student Entrepreneurship Summit, and Continuous Teacher Training and Support. Developers Academy partners with Social Enterprise Ghana.

Development Alert is a membership-based community organization that implements projects to address the causes and consequences of poverty, marginalization, and biodiversity loss in rural Uganda. They focus on education, clean water access, economic empowerment, and environmental conservation. Development Alert has mobilized resources to provide school stationery and scholarships to children in need, distribute supplies to the elderly, drill community boreholes, invest in sewing machines and start-up fabric, train young people in catering, baking, organic farming, and financial literacy, and plant thousands of trees. They are a member of the Civil Society Network of Uganda and the Global Waste Cleaning Network. Development Alert is registered in Uganda as a not-for-profit organization.

Development in Social Enterprise (DiSE) creates social value by providing bespoke enterprise support and consultancy services for social enterprises, community businesses, charities, voluntary organizations, and startups in the West Midlands. They help clients diversify their income sources, reduce reliance on grant funding, navigate legal structures, develop good governance, become investment-ready, and access mentoring, business planning, and other technical services to scale their social impact and achieve operational and financial sustainability. DiSE offers free initial consultations, provides pro bono services and discounted rates for local charities, and prioritizes local consultants where additional capacity is needed. They are a registered Community Interest Company (CIC) and a member of Social Enterprise UK, Co-operatives UK, West Midlands Combined Authority Social Enterprise Cluster, Birmingham and Solihull Social Economy Consortium, and Social Economy Drive. All surplus is reinvested towards their mission.

Devidayal Solar supports the renewable energy transition and increases sustainable livelihood opportunities for rural women by offering decentralized solar powered refrigeration solutions, solar fans, and charge controllers. Their rugged, easy to install solar refrigerators are designed for local kirana shops, veterinary vaccines, and producers with perishable fruit, dairy, fish, or meat products. They reduce food waste and enable micro entrepreneurs to diversify and improve their standard of living. Devidayal Solar provides warranties and after sales service for all appliances. They work with SELCO Foundation, Powering Livelihoods, and GOGLA, the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry.

Devil's Food offers event catering services in Portland with a commitment to civic engagement, environmental stewardship, and social equity. They offer food, drink, staffing, planning, rental coordination, and more for weddings, parties, corporate functions, and other special occasions. Their menus focus on local, seasonal produce from small-scale suppliers, Pacific Northwest pasture-raised meats, sustainably harvested seafood, and biodynamic or carbon neutral local wines. Devil's Food Catering composts all food scraps and donates leftovers to those experiencing food insecurity. Their building is powered by renewable energy and they encourage employee carpooling and biking to work. Over half of their management staff identifies as women, people of color, or LGBTQ+. Devil's Food Catering provides in-kind catering services to local nonprofits and makes cash donations to organizations that help disenfranchised members of their community.

DEW Crafts promotes fair trade practices, upholds cultural heritage, and provides holistic support to disadvantaged producer groups in Bangladesh. They specialize in housewares, clothing, and accessories that are handmade from natural jute, cane, hogla seagrass, cotton, and silk. DEW Crafts assists producers with product design, skill development, quality assurance, credit, and local and international market access with a focus on livelihood security, women's empowerment, climate adaptation, and environmental protection. They contribute to their parent organization Development Wheel (DEW), a registered not-for-profit charity. DEW Crafts is a guaranteed member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO).

Dewsiri Ayurveda offers ayurvedic products and treatments from their medical center in Kelaniya. Products are made from natural, herbal ingredients that are sustainably sourced from local suppliers. They provide free medicine and treatment for clergy and people in need.

Dezine Life Social Welfare Foundation gives women from underprivileged backgrounds the opportunity to design their life, earn a livelihood with dignity, and generate wealth and value for all. They provide skill training on textile upcycling and recycling and build models of sustainable development focused on four Es: environment, education, empowerment, and entrepreneurship. Dezine Life is a not-for-profit organization and reinvests all surplus towards their mission. They are connected with BunkoJunko and are part of Climate Collective, Catalyst 2030, and Catalyst Market.

Dhaaga creates natural linen clothing and housewares "to preserve our future." Linen is made from the flax plant and requires 20 times less water than the production of cotton. Dhaaga focuses on small-batch, on-demand production to avoid waste and long-lasting, timeless designs to extend product life. Fabric offcuts are upcycled and used in their home collection, and all products and packaging are fully compostable. Dhaaga is committed to fair wages, ethical trading practices, and community service. They support a village in rural Maharashtra with school supplies, fresh water access, and other basic needs.

Dhaaru is a platform that connects skilled Sri Lankan artisans, designers, and local consumers and promotes products that are handmade from natural materials like wood, coconut shell, traditional lacquer, cane, bamboo, and cotton handloom. Dhaaru makes it easier for designers and consumers to work with local craftspeople to develop custom product ideas. They aim to transform producers' livelihoods by providing transparent access to consumer demand data, pricing information, and modern designs.

Dhaka Handicrafts improves the welfare of artisans in impoverished rural areas of Bangladesh through the production and export of fair trade housewares and accessories. They use locally sourced natural fibers and recycled fabric waste to create handmade baskets, planters, home textiles, bags, and jewelry. Dhaka Handicrafts focuses on gender equality and the economic empowerment of rural women. They provide fair living wages, long-term employment opportunities, health benefits, and education facilities for artisans' daughters. They also organize environmental awareness programs and tree-planting campaigns. Dhaka Handicrafts is a World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) Guaranteed Member and a member of WFTO Asia, Banglacraft, and ECOTA Fair Trade Forum. They are registered as a not-for-profit organization and reinvest all surplus towards their mission.

Dharshana Bio Packaging emerged out of a local packaging company to support the shift to environmentally responsible alternatives. They offer compostable garbage bags, shopping bags, and lunch sheets for both residential and commercial requirements. Products are certified by TÜV Austria to be compostable at home and in industrial compost facilities. Dharshana Bio Packaging is licensed by the Central Environmental Authority in Sri Lanka.

DHD Handloom produces cotton handloom fabric, clothing, housewares and toys at a facility in southern Sri Lanka. They donate a portion of their profits to an orphanage for girls in nearby Induruwa.

Dhee Ayurved offers Ayurveda training courses, consultation and treatments in Ayurveda and Sri Lankan traditional medicine, and affordable herbal products made from local, all natural materials. They use 25% of profits to provide free health awareness programs, consultations, and treatments to low-income community members and educational support for workers' children.

Dhiyana creates upcycled textile products that reduce waste to landfill and create living wage employment opportunities for underprivileged women. They specialize in bags, accessories, and housewares made from pre-consumer fabric scraps. All products are handcrafted in India by women artisans.