Our Brands

HHPLIFT creates opportunities for people overcoming barriers to fair wage employment and economic independence. Through HHP, they partner with global employment social enterprises and help introduce their products to new distribution channels so they can develop sustainable business models and provide fair wages and valuable services to their artisans and workers. Products include bags, accessories, and housewares made from natural and recycled materials like fishing nets, cement bags, bicycle chain links, leather scraps, plastic bags, palm thread, and more. Through LIFT, they provide direct employment, leadership training, and career development services for disadvantaged adults in Chicago, produce bath and spa products, and offer warehousing, order fulfillment, and other third party logistics (3PL) services. They ship in compostable packaging and offer special 3PL rates for nonprofits and social enterprises. HHPLIFT is part of the Social Enterprise Alliance, Chicago Fair Trade, and The Aspen Institute. They are registered as a not-for-profit organization and reinvest all surplus towards their mission.

Hideaway Resort started as a family home nearly 40 years ago and expanded to welcome guests. It now has 14 rooms and bungalows, a restaurant, cafe and bar, a curated retail space, and a yoga and wellness shala. Within the grounds, the team is able to create the kind of world they wish to live in, "one based on caring for the earth, and all the sentient beings who live on it." Hideaway avoids single-use plastic and offers free filtered water to all guests and travelers. They support social enterprises and responsible businesses, source locally grown produce, use organic, fair trade ingredients whenever possible, and donate to local causes like Girls Make Waves and Wasteless Arugam Bay. They have built a strong team by investing in people from rural areas and providing opportunities for personal development and growth. Hideaway is frequently used for yoga, meditation, and surf retreats. The wellness shala offers yoga classes, ayurvedic treatments, massage, and a residency program for healing practitioners.

HiEnergy Services is a leading supplier of solar solutions in Sri Lanka. They aim to make solar energy accessible and affordable for average households and businesses in order to reduce the country’s dependence on imported fossil fuels. Their solar panels are manufactured in Singapore by a Norwegian solar photovoltaic supplier and their inverters come from Germany. HiEnergy Services is recommended by Sri Lanka's Sustainable Energy Authority and offers a 25-year production guarantee.

HigherFlyers combines modern neuroscience and ancient wisdom to awaken human potential, remove self-imposed mental obstacles, and empower people to sustainably improve themselves, their families, and their communities. They offer award-winning books, workshops, life coaching, counseling, and motivational speaking services. HigherFlyers prints books locally within Sri Lanka to ensure they are affordable and accessible and provides workshops and life coaching to low-income groups at discounted rates.

Higher Ground is a social enterprise that serves youth and women from underprivileged communities in Nepal who are at risk of abuse, exploitation and human trafficking. They support community transformation through awareness, counselling, skill training in beading, knitting, sewing, and design, and fair wage employment. Products include handmade jewelry, jute, hemp, and canvas bags, and accessories. Fifteen percent of every purchase goes to the Higher Ground Community Development Fund to support scholarships for children in need, advocacy and shelter for girls and children at risk, and seed funding for microenterprises to help women gain control of their lives and become financially independent. Higher Ground organizes an annual 5K Fun Run for women on International Women's Day and works closely with other social welfare organizations to raise awareness about human trafficking in Nepal.

Higher Grounds brings a human-centric approach to organic specialty coffee. As member-owners of Coop Coffee, an importing cooperative, they are able to directly source green coffee beans and develop long-term relationships with farmers in coffee growing regions. Higher Grounds has a circular model to return benefits to the producers. A percent of sales is donated to their partner nonprofit, On the Ground, which supports sustainable, equitable solutions in coffee growing communities. Higher Grounds also supports nonprofit organizations in their local community by developing custom branded blends and donating a portion of sales. The Higher Grounds Coffee Bar and Roastery is located in the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, one of the largest historic preservation and adaptive reuse redevelopments in the United States. The coffee bar prepares drinks using freshly roasted coffee and sustainably sourced local and organic ingredients. Higher Grounds is a Certified B Corporation.

HigherRing harnesses business as a force for good and helps socially responsible companies lighten their load and further their purpose through ethical outsourcing. They provide remote fractional and full-time support in customer service, executive assistance, bookkeeping and financial operations, marketing and sales, and supply chain services. HigherRing creates remote, living wage employment opportunities with above-standard benefits including health coverage, professional development training, retirement contributions, paid holidays and volunteer time, profit sharing, interest-free loans, and financial literacy training. They purchase secondhand computer equipment, recycle electronics through Homeboy Industries, monitor emissions, actively work towards reduction targets, offset through verified projects, and donate one percent of revenue to environmental organizations. HigherRing is a registered California Public Benefit Corporation and has B Corporation, The Climate Label, 1% for the Planet, Living Wage for US, and Women Owned certifications.

HighLife provides fresh and healthy juices to Sri Lankan consumers. They offer sugar free and low sugar drinks, smoothie and blends for people with diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Ingredients like king coconut, lime, papaya, watermelon, mango, banana, and karapincha are sourced from local home gardens. HighLife is committed to environmentally responsible practices. Bags are compostable or reusable and glass bottles are collected and sterilized for reuse.

Himagira aims to improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers in Sri Lanka through sustainable farming and fair trade practices. They specialize in powdered black pepper, white pepper, cinnamon, pumpkin, cassava, ginger, pandan, lemongrass, curry leaves, lime, chili, tomato, and other natural foods from village home gardens in Moneragala. Himagira promotes agrichemical-free farming practices, pays above-market prices, and preferentially sources from marginalized households.

Himalayan Green Trips organizes environmentally responsible trekking, retreats, and travel experiences in Nepal. All itineraries are based on pack-in, pack-out principles. They bring refillable water bottles and reusable supplies, provide locally produced food with no plastic packaging, and use solar power. The team spreads environmental awareness on all trips and actively removes mountain waste. They clean everywhere they go and carry trash out for recycling or reuse. Himalayan Green Trips is a fair trekking agency that supports mountain communities. They partner with local businesses with shared values and ensure all guides and workers receive fair pay. For every trip booked, they plant five trees to fight climate change and save the mountains. Himalayan Green Trips supports Let's Clean Up Nepal, a local not-for-profit organization.

Himalayan Haat creates small-batch artisanal foods from sustainably grown mountain produce and provides training and meaningful employment for local village women in Garhwal, many of whom have experienced abuse, neglect, and hardship. The team harvests fresh seasonal produce from Marrora farm and makes natural chutneys, preserves, juice concentrates, pickles, sauces, apple cider vinegar, herbal teas, and seasoning salts. Himalayan Haat provides flexible work hours, a space to connect, and an opportunity to become financially independent. The family has stewarded the farm for decades and transformed it from barren land into fertile fields, fruit orchards, and thick forest that supplies spring water to 14 villages in the district. Himalayan Haat follows a "jungle farming" approach, using leaf mold and cow dung for fertilizers, pine needles for mulching, and natural spring water for irrigation. No synthetic agrichemicals are applied and the harvest is shared with wild birds and animals.

Himalayan Hemp uses a cooperative model to preserve indigenous Himalayan cannabis hemp varieties, develop environmentally responsible products and services, and uplift village economies in the Himalayan region. Initial products include reusable hemp menstrual pads and N95 hemp respirator masks. They also offer hands-on hempcrete workshops to teach people how to make bricks, slabs, walls, and carbon negative natural buildings from a hemp biocomposite. Future products include Himalayan hemp fabrics, clothing, and accessories, hemp paper and stationery, edible hemp seeds, hemp seed oil, and hemp flour, animal fodder, and raw materials like hemp fiber, hurds, and stalks. They are developing a holistic community that includes a farmers cooperative, artisans cooperative, seed bank, not-for-profit research foundation, manufacturing and marketing company, and a healing center. Elected representatives from each of these units will be responsible for policy making and governance. Himalayan Hemp organizes menstrual awareness campaigns in rural schools to increase access to hemp sanitary pads.

Himalayan Naari is a self-help collective of Indigenous women in the Kumaoun region of India that revitalizes local woolen crafts and enables women to support their families and improve their quality of life. They combine traditional stitches with modern designs to create knitted and woven caps, headbands, mittens, scarves, cowls, baby bonnets, blankets, wraps, and more. Himalayan Naari uses local plants and flowers to create vibrant, naturally dyed wool, which they use in their own products and sell as Lofty Peaks Yarn for creative projects. Knitting is done by the mothers of Chakouri, a small community surrounding a local school where many women move to give their children better educational opportunities. Himalayan Education Foundation provides design, marketing, sales, and business development support. Himalayan Naari is a Fair Trade Federation verified member.

Hiru Products supports Sri Lankan farmers and produces healthy local flours as an alternative to imported wheat flours. They specialize in kurakkan, cassava, bada irigu, kollu, gram, and barley. Hiru Products sources directly from farmers in Ambilipitiya and Ratnapura, cleans and dehydrates their harvest, and produces fresh flour for the local market. They reinvest to help the farmers develop their farms.

HMS Kithul House aims to support rural livelihoods and provide a healthy, local alternative to imported refined sugar and flour. They work with kithul tapping families in the Welimada area to produce kithul flour from the pith of the kithul palm tree and kithul treacle, jaggery, jaggery with cinnamon, and jaggery with ginger from the sap. HMS Kithul House contributes to a local social service organization in Guruthalawa that helps low income families with food, housing, electricity and water connections, medical care, and school scholarships. They also fund and mentor local women that want to start their own businesses.

Hobo Beautiful focuses on slow, sustainable fashion. Their clothing and accessories are influenced by traditional craft techniques and handmade from natural, locally sourced, and biodegradable materials. Their Conscious Traveller collection includes versatile clutch bags, bottle holders, yoga mat bags, and shopping bags. Their From The Earth collection is made from natural coconut twine and cane. Hobo Beautiful uses their photo shoots, website, and social media to promote other small, sustainable brands. They also make products for charities that are raising money for a cause. For example, they produce zero waste pet toys to support Ceylon Paws.

Holland Park Media helps organizations, people, and communities tell authentic stories through captivating media with a focus on creating a better tomorrow. They offer videography, photography, graphic design, animation, livestreaming, podcasting, copywriting, and consulting services. Eighty percent of their projects serve non-commercial entities including organizations focused on peace, justice, and climate change. They provide tailored services and discounted rates to social causes and small nonprofits, and they share their gear and equipment with organizations and individuals facing financial constraints to help them create impactful content and reach wider audiences. Holland Park Media partners with Envision Glasses to develop content for visually impaired individuals and ensures all of their digital content adheres to accessibility standards. Their not-for-profit initiatives, Party4Planet and Party4Peace, are hybrid events that bring activists and the community together through live music and visual entertainment. ​Holland Park Media is part of Creatives for Climate and The Hague Humanity Hub.

HOLOS brews small-batch kombucha and employs survivors of slavery in the United Kingdom. Their kombucha is made from signature tea blends and natural flavors, fermented on a farm in West Sussex, and sold through restaurants, bars, coffee shops, retailers, and online. HOLOS works in partnership with charities that provide accommodation, counseling, and casework support for survivors of slavery, trauma, and human trafficking. They offer transitional employment to build confidence and create a stepping stone to economic independence. HOLOS uses their platform to raise awareness of modern slavery and profile organizations working to tackle this issue across the United Kingdom. Twenty-five percent of their founding shares were set aside to create the HOLOS Foundation and protect their purpose over time.

Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative Society was founded in Bethlehem in 1981 to alleviate local poverty and unemployment, decrease emigration, and sustain Palestinian craft traditions. They offer religious handicrafts, jewelry, and housewares made from olive wood, mother of pearl, ceramics, recycled glass, wool, and traditional embroidery. Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative Society sources from 35 member workshops as well as local women's groups and organizations that support people with disabilities. They maintain a fair trade shop in Bethlehem so pilgrims, tourists, and other customers are able to purchase quality, ethically sourced products directly from the local community. They also sell online and through a network of international fair trade partners. In addition to providing market access, Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative Society helps members obtain raw materials, build capacity, and improve working conditions. All olive wood crafts are made from pruned branches and are collected without harming the ancient trees. Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative Society is a guaranteed member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO).

Home Collection produces durable wrought iron home decor and furniture. Unlike mass produced plastic housewares, these wrought iron pieces can last for generations. Metal scraps are melted or reused in smaller pieces. Home Collection designs original pieces in their own workshop and undertakes custom orders for furniture, racks, shelves, lamps, curtain rods, mirrors, and other housewares. As part of their commitment to social responsibility, they pay for meals at a nearby children's home.