Shopping for a Change is a nonprofit organization that enables struggling artisans to leverage their skills toward a sustainable income and funds important infrastructure development projects with the proceeds.
Supporting artisans globally, the majority of which are female, Shopping for a Change was inspired on a trip by founder Stacey Horowitz to the Galapagos Islands and Peru where she witnessed impoverished communities struggling to gain fair means of employment.
Shopping for a Change pays its artisans up front and then splits the proceeds between community involvement projects that focus on water sanitation, education and healthcare abroad and a US charity of the customer’s choosing.
Contact Information
Shopping for a Change website
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Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Empowering Artisans
- There is an opportunity for disruptive innovation in creating platforms or organizations that empower artisans by providing sustainable income and infrastructure development projects.
- Ethical Shopping
- The trend towards ethical shopping presents an opportunity for disruptive innovation in creating marketplaces or initiatives that support struggling artisans and fund important community projects.
- Global Empowerment
- There is a trend towards supporting global empowerment, specifically among marginalized communities, which creates opportunities for disruptive innovation in organizations or initiatives that focus on sustainable income and infrastructure development.
Where This Applies
- Nonprofit
- The nonprofit industry can explore disruptive innovation opportunities by creating platforms or initiatives that support artisans and fund community projects.
- Ethical Retail
- The ethical retail industry can embrace disruptive innovation by developing marketplaces or initiatives that enable consumers to support struggling artisans and invest in community development projects.
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship presents an industry with disruptive innovation opportunities to create sustainable income solutions for artisans while addressing important infrastructure development needs.
