Trusted brands using certified ethical and sustainable business practices.
Madras Café specializes in healthy, all natural Indian food including chappati and kottu made from whole grain wheat and millets. They use home grown leafy greens that help support diabetes and cholesterol control. Madras Café regularly provides food to orphanages.
MÄDU creates handmade jewelry, gives new life to discarded waste materials, and encourages people to make more sustainable choices. Their earrings and necklaces are made from upcycled paper, plastics, wood, metal, and other responsibly sourced materials. MÄDU uses plastic-free packaging, minimizes energy and water consumption, and avoids harmful chemicals in their production processes.
Maeterna produces natural vegan skin care with a focus on creating employment opportunities for immigrant women. Their flagship product is a gender neutral facial oil made from a blend of more than 20 botanical oils. Maeterna sources from organic suppliers, packs their products in wildflower seed paper boxes, and includes thank you cards that spotlight Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) women artists. They donate to Women for Refugee Women.
Maggie's Organics produces comfortable, durable, and affordable clothing, socks, and other accessories from organic certified fibers. Maggie's is committed to environmental sustainability, real fair trade, continuous improvement, and transparency at every step of the process from the farmers who harvest the raw agricultural crops, to the spinners who make the yarn, to the knitters who knit the fabric, to the sewers who cut and sew the finished products. They develop long-term relationships with cooperatives and family businesses that meet fair trade and organic standards. Maggie's Organics is a member of the Fair Trade Federation and the World Fair Trade Organization.
Magpie Goose creates new economic opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by partnering with Aboriginal artists in regional and remote communities to design powerful statement clothing. The designs are hand-screen printed onto biodegradable natural fiber fabrics with water-based inks and made into clothing by local manufacturers. Magpie Goose reduces waste by designing their products to last, shipping in plastic-free packaging, and creating upcycled accessories from their fabric offcuts. They hire First Nations service providers, photographers, designers, and models and pay artwork licensing fees to Aboriginal artists, art centers, and community organizations. Each artist's designs tell unique stories of people, place, and culture. Their clothing can serve as conversation starters and enable the broader community to learn about, connect with, and celebrate Aboriginal culture and Country. Magpie Goose is a Social Traders Certified Social Enterprise and a member of the Queensland Social Enterprise Council (QSEC).
Mahaguthi Craft with Conscience is a fair trade organization that serves more than 1,000 Nepali artisans with more than half coming from remote and mountainous areas. They have two outlets in the Kathmandu Valley and export clothing, accessories, and housewares to partners and supporters around the world. Mahaguthi preserves traditional cultural skills and offers fair wages, allowances for food and travel, onsite daycare, a producer welfare fund, medical assistance, advance payments, grants, loans, technical support, and capacity building programs. All profits are reinvested toward their mission. Mahaguthi is a member of the World Fair Trade Organization, founding member of Fair Trade Group Nepal, supports other fair trade groups, and actively advocates for sustainable trade development.
Mahausakande is regenerating a tropical rainforest to preserve Sri Lanka's unique biodiversity, promote sustainable livelihoods, and support environmental education and research on rainforest restoration and conservation. They are reforesting neglected rubber plantation land that borders a forest reserve using a scientific approach and the active support and involvement of local communities. Mahausakande offers ecotourism experiences, school programs, kithul treacle, bee honey, black pepper, goraka, areca, cardamom, and other forest garden products. They work with a women's group in Hindurangala to produce shopping bags from old newspapers, greeting cards from recycled paper, and jewelry and accessories from discarded coconut shells. Mahausakande monitors birds, reptiles, mammals, butterflies, amphibians, and other fauna through ongoing biodiversity surveys and observations by trained village guides. They welcome researchers focused on wet zone vegetation, restoration ecology, animal behavior, microorganisms, taxonomic studies of flora and fauna, carbon sequestration, and related topics. Mahausakande shares experiences and best practices and encourages replication.
Mahayaya supports traditional home-based cultivation and processing of Sri Lankan spices. They work with families committed to farming ecologically in diverse perennial homegardens with no synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, or other agrichemicals. Products include raw and roasted curry powder, turmeric, cloves, cinnamon, garcinia, chili, and black pepper. Each crop is harvested and hand processed using traditional methods with no fuel-powered machinery. For example, chilies are sun-dried and pounded into chili flakes or powder using a mortar and pestle for superior taste, flavor, and texture. Local farmer societies have now come together to create the Mahayaya Ecological Farmers Association (MEFA). Mahayaya provides training, pays fair prices above market rates, and ensures that no child labor or forced labor is used during the process.
Maheema Farm raises goats according to free range standards and sells natural goat milk and yogurt in their local community. The animals have enough outdoor pasture and indoor housing for natural behavior. They are naturally bred on the farm, and kids are not separated from their mothers. Maheema Farm works with Sri Lanka Human Development Foundation to promote natural farming techniques and reduce carbon emissions. They are verified free range under a local participatory guarantee system (PGS).
Mahindra Electric is the pioneer of electric vehicle technology in India. Their vision is a sustainable automotive ecosystem that brings mobility solutions to customers across the world. India has committed to an all-electric vehicle policy by 2030, and Mahindra Electric supports this transition by making it easier for individuals and businesses to choose from a range of economical electric three-wheel and four-wheel vehicles that minimize air pollution and potential carbon emissions. Mahindra Electric is distributed in Sri Lanka by Ideal Motors.
MA Housing and Support provides comprehensive housing and support services to individuals in need and collaborates with communities to build inclusive neighborhoods and brighter futures for all. They offer housing advice and assistance, welfare advisory services, coaching, mentoring, access to language classes, workshops on health and wellness, life skills, and job readiness, and entrepreneurship training. Services are tailored to low-income groups, ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities. MA Housing and Support is a registered Community Interest Company (CIC) and a member of Social Enterprise UK.
Mahvash Mohtadullah aims to make reading fun for children and breathe life into social issues by presenting them in story form. Writings include educational children's books written in verse, collections of poems and essays, The Roaming Desi blog, and contemporary fiction that centers on female South Asian characters dealing with the challenges of traditions, norms, and biases. Children's books are sold at cost to increase accessibility.
Maia Cheese produces all-natural European-style cheeses using environmentally responsible practices. They started in Goa, India in 2005 and have now expanded to the Matale hill country in Sri Lanka. Maia Cheese works closely with the surrounding community. They assist local farmers with feed and technical services, offer rural employment opportunities, and contribute to local schools. Products include fresh mozzarella, smoked mozzarella, herbed mozzarella, queen blue cheese, Camembert and aged cheeses.
Maide Mutfak is a Turkish food incubation center that works with entrepreneurs to create a better food system. Through their professionally equipped and licensed kitchen in Mecidiyeköy, they share knowledge, expertise, production and packaging infrastructure, small-scale warehousing facilities, and supply chain networks for materials and distribution. They also assist with recipe development, quality control, legal consultation, and business services like accounting, graphic design, marketing and advertising. Maide Mutfak focuses on healthy food, environmental consciousness, and creating opportunities for women facing barriers to employment and entrepreneurship. Their facility is located in a low income area, and they donate surplus materials to the surrounding community.
Maison d'Haiti is the brand of Haiti Projects' Artisanat Cooperative, which was started in 1994 to empower women and their families in rural Haiti toward self-sufficiency. Their team of women artisans creates heirloom quality, embroidered nightgowns, tea towels, lavender sachets, and other handcrafted products in the community of Fond des Blancs. In addition to providing fair trade employment through the cooperative, Haiti Projects supports a community library, a family health clinic, a girls' soccer club, and a beekeeping project. All proceeds are reinvested towards the community. Haiti Projects is registered as not-for-profit organization in Haiti and the United States and has 501(c)3 status. They are a verified member of Fair Trade Federation.
Majä creates eco-ethical fashion by giving pre-loved South Asian sarees and silks a new life as skirts, tops, and accessories. Each upcycled piece is designed in-house and produced by women from low-income communities. Majä promotes waste reduction, reuse, and conscious consumption. Fifty percent of profits are donated to the SOS Children's Village in Biyagama.
Major Projects Group provides innovative and cost-effective demolition solutions for their customers and creates a sustainable environment for future generations. They have the equipment and expertise for industrial, commercial, marine, and high-risk demolition services, asbestos and hazardous waste removal, decommissioning, deconstruction, and remediation across Australia. They also offer consulting services and modular building solutions. Employees receive continuous industry-leading hazard and safety training and follow cutting-edge engineering processes and methodologies to ensure safety and minimize impact. Their demolition projects consistently achieve recycling rates above 98 percent. Major Projects Group allocates 50 percent of profits to the Major Projects Foundation, which focuses on emerging maritime issues in Australia and the Pacific islands, including the threat of oil spills from World War II shipwrecks, ghost nets, unexploded ordinance, plastic pollution, and the effects of climate change. Major Projects Group is a Social Traders Certified Social Enterprise and has ISO certification for quality management, environmental management, and occupational health and safety.
Makao Collective aims to promote sustainable living in Tanzania and create employment opportunities that improve wellbeing. They specialize in environmentally responsible housewares and accessories that are handmade by African artisans. Products include handwoven iringa bags, cotton towels, blankets, and rugs, olive wood tableware, rattan furniture, zero waste supplies, and more. Makao Collective donates a percentage of profits to local community initiatives.
Make Good Grow connects volunteers and businesses with good causes to maximize community impact across South Warwickshire. Their Pledge Market is a free matchmaking service where volunteers and businesses can explore one-off projects and longer-term partnership opportunities with charities and local initiatives and "swipe right" to provide support in time, in kind, or in cash. Make Good Grow also provides expert-led workshops for charities, meeting rooms, a podcast studio, event spaces, and other facilities. They are a registered Community Interest Company (CIC) and a member of Social Enterprise UK.
MakeWith Hardware & Learning Center helps people build skills for self-sufficiency and collective resilience in Portland, Oregon and beyond. They offer a curated selection of products, services, and hands-on workshops focused on resilience skills like home maintenance and repair, emergency preparedness, mending, furniture restorations, growing and preserving food, automotive basics, and more. MakeWith collaborates with diverse tradespeople and hobbyists to create an inclusive and supportive place for anyone to learn new skills. Participants build confidence and community connections and learn to extend the life of their possessions, avoid unnecessary purchases, and reduce waste and consumption. MakeWith maintains a pay-it-forward system and offers discounted tickets to people in need. They also maintain a directory of women, queer, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) building contractors and service providers serving residential and commercial customers in the Portland area.