Click on the vendor logo to go to their site. Not all the products on their sites will be available at the Fair.
Note: I am rebuilding the list of vendors. I am not sure what I did but some are missing.
Global Avenues Ministries
Global Avenues support the following organizations through Fair Trade. Forever Zoe Handicraft Pvt. Ltd. in New Delhi, India pursues the vision to provide creative work places for young Tibetans in exile and to support them in their struggle to find a home far from home, as well as employing Indians. Freeset is in business for freedom - freedom from human trafficking. Freeset is a fair trade business that sells bags and t-shirts, made by women freed from human trafficking in Calcutta, India. Ruhamah Designs creates beautiful hand-crafted jewelry made by victims of sex trafficking. It is a business “built upside down” as their products revolves around their employees, their needs and their abilities. JAMGHAT – A group of Street Children was established in 2003 in New Delhi, India and is a registered NGO that aims to rehabilitate children living and working on the streets of Delhi. Its mission is to provide an environment where street children can evolve as physically and emotionally healthy self-dependent individuals living a life of their choice. Peace Rehabilitation Center is a charitable organization dedicated to fighting and preventing sexual exploitation in Nepal. PRC’s mission includes defeating oppression, empowering women, strengthening communities, and building the nation of Nepal one girl at a time.
Trades of Hope
Change the world with us! Inspire Hope. Create Change. Trades of Hope empowers women to create sustainable businesses worldwide. We want women to realize their potential as world changers, business owners, dream creators, and heroes of their own stories. We are looking for American women to rise up and be the voice for the women who have no voice, empowering them to rise out of poverty. Become a compassionate entrepreneur to change the world
Divas' Fair Trade
Divas Fair Trade is a small local organization in Minnesota offering fashionable and trendy accessories and gifts year round. We promote ethical values and raise awareness regarding social issues in our local communities. By purchasing our products, you are supporting a sustainable business model that provides work opportunities to disenfranchised women and men to sustain their families and educate their children to break the circle of poverty. We support International Fair Trade as well as Domestic Fair Trade. Our goal is about making sure people get their fair share of the pie. Divas Fair Trade focuses on social justice issues: fair trade, social responsibility, micro-lending and more since 2009.
Share Happiness. Buy Fair Trade!
Reflections of Asia
At Reflections of Asia we only work with small family businesses, fair trade or non-profit organizations. Our products include 100% Cambodian silk scarves and accessories from local non-profits, Vietnamese home décor and organic, handmade soaps and spa products from Bali, Indonesia.
REGLA DE ORO - Art Gallery & Fair Trade Gifts offers consumers a conscientious alternative to meeting their buying needs, while providing a market for unique art and quality fair trade products. We work with local artists from the Twin Cities and surrounding areas & community non-profits, and provide a portion of all event proceeds to Arts Education and Social Justice related Non-Profit organizations.
The dtot
The Art Shoppe is not able to be at the Fair this year. They are a great organization of artist in the Twin Cities. You can visit their shop at Midtown Global Market.
The Art Shoppe is a local artist micro business venture that
Midtown Global Market is excited to bring into our market! This is a collaboration between three non profits (A Minnesota Without Poverty, Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), and Mount Olive Lutheran Church) that combined forces with local artists to build the sustainable business.
They are located in the Midtown Global Market at 920 E. Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407.
Indonesian Batik Silk Scarves
Tanya is working with a cooperative of women in rural Indonesia who are working their way out of poverty by hand crafting beautiful Batik Scarves. Tanya is a local artist with Mi Casa Studios. Her scarves sales are an effort to support a group of hard working women on the other side of the world.
Global Mamas
Enhancing the international marketplace with unique, high-quality, handmade African products while offering a sustainable livelihood to women and their families.
Global Mamas was founded in 2003 with the goal of providing sustainable work for women entrepreneurs in Ghana. Starting with only 6 original batikers and seamstresses in Cape Coast, the organization now works with over 500 women in 7 different communities with traditional skills including sewing, batiking,bead making and shea butter production.
Global Mamas partners with over 300 retailers around the globe as well as the international volunteer organization Women in Progress, which provides support in a variety of areas such as IT, design, marketing, and business training for the women. Global Mamas is committed to fair trade and is a member of the Fair Trade Federation and The World Fair Trade Organization.
Glad Tidings Holy Land Designs
Carving out Opportunities to Enrich Lives
Glad Tidings Holy Land Designs, Inc. is an outreach to the physically challenged and underprivileged in the Holy Land. Located in the hills of the Roman city of Philadelphia, now modern day Amman, Jordan, our Glad Tidings Workshop currently trains and employs around 20 full-time workers.
For centuries, Holy Land artisans have expressed their creative talents through such natural media as stone, wood, and sand. Today Middle Eastern families continue to carve, weave, press, and dye a variety of articles reflecting the culturally rich, yet often harsh world of their surroundings.
A foundational principle of Glad Tidings is to work for the good of the community, making certain that the artisans who produce its unique handicrafts make a “living wage.” This means that an average salary is sufficient to provide housing, food and education for a family of four.
Fry Bread Love
Custom Jewelry made here in Minnesota. Native American Fry Bread, Wild Rice, Cards and More.
Women of Hope
Women of Hope is an out-growth of Mashiah Foundation, a ministry in Jos, Nigeria, that reaches out to those affected by HIV/AIDS. Many of the women involved in this program were homeless and rejected by their families once their HIV status became known. As they learned about Mashiah Foundation and the help that was available to them, they found hope. This ministry in West Africa is run by the Oyebades: Mary Beth, an American, and Bayo, a Nigerian.
Because these women had no source of income, many were homeless and destitute. Mary Beth began training them in the art of sewing and quilting as a means to support themselves. The program has grown to include over a hundred women who produce great quantities of products ranging from potholders to wall hangings to bed-size quilts and lots of things in between. Their goods are sold in their on-site gift shop in Jos as well as in the United States as shipments are made available.
At one point Bayo had expressed concern for the ladies that maybe they were working too hard and their health might suffer. One woman, Ajija, said, "It's the work that is keeping us well."
Mount Calvary Lutheran Church is a Fair Trade Church. The serve Fair Trade Coffee every Sunday and have Chocolate, Coffee and Tea available. They have placed a large order to chocolate, coffee and tea to sell. They will be selling it below the suggested retail prices.
Equal Exchange Fair Trade
Mount Calvary Lutheran Church is a Fair Trade Church. The serve Fair Trade Coffee every Sunday and have Chocolate, Coffee and Tea available. They have placed a large order to chocolate, coffee and tea to sell. They will be selling it below the suggested retail prices.
The newest Chocolate is the Dark Chocolate With Raspberries.
Minnesota African Women Association
MAWA promotes the health and well-being of African refugee and immigrant women and their families in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul through research, education and programming.
We are a pan-African women’s nonprofit organization providing services and programming of interest to women from all African countries living in Minnesota.
MAWA is governed by a board that is made up of African and American men and women who have remarkable perspective of the issues that face African women and their families in the Twin Cities.
At MAWA we believe in the advancement of African women. We believe change comes from within and do work that will lead to social and systems change.
