Social Enterprise Gift Guide 2017

We use rare stone and precious metals.

Heathier Mens Happier Homes Safer Communities

$10 - $50

Spice mixes for different part of our groups cultural background

These youth learn several business skills which they can use in their future and the profits they make will divided between the graduates and used for either their education or the start of their own business

Less than $10

Quality Canadian-made activewear that gives back. Hoodies, Toques, Performance Tees. We donate a portion of every sale to programs that create opportunities for more Canadian kids to play sports!

Many Canadian families face financial barriers that make it difficult to enrol kids in athletic programs. We support organizations that decrease these financial barriers and help kids get active.

$50 -$100

We sell a variety of products made by women in our programs from Northern Ontario, for women, men and children ranging from clothing and artwork, to crafts and gift items.

Creates a way for new and emerging artisans to sell their goods!

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When you gift a CoPower Green Bond, you’re not only investing in their financial future, but in the world they’ll inherit. Your gift of a 5-year, 5% CoPower Green Bond support the development of green energy.

We democratize impact investing by creating an investment platform that allows Canadians at all income levels become investors in new clean energy projects.

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Mens dress casual shirts, Denims, Women's top and denims

Increasing long-term financial security for garment workers and their families. Empowering consumers to be part of solution.

$10 - $50

The Good Day Workshop provides professional furniture refinishing and restoration services. Consider a unique gift of bringing a quality piece of furniture back to its original glory.

Employment and Traninig for individuals typically excluded from the workforce.

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Premium coffee - Rainforest Alliance Certified - range of roasts and grinds; also a line of organic teas

Social Enterprise DescriptionKLINK Coffee changes lives by providing training and jobs for people returning home from prison; supported by the sale premium, Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee.

$10 - $50

A social enterprise program of Meals on Wheels London; TVT has partnered with some of London's finest food creators to offer mouthwatering meals, gift packaged and delivered by our caring volunteers

Proceeds from every meal purchased go towards Meals On Wheels London and subsidizing meals for seniors or someone living with disabilities in our community, it ensures our services will continue.

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Give the gift of food and an opportunity too!

The Old East Village Grocer allows people with significant workplace barriers to develop their skills and overcome challenges on the way to meaningful employment and greater independence.

$10 - $50

Pink Floyd got it wrong, We NEED Education. Inspire her to have a dedication to her education with this soft organic bamboo t-shirt!

For every ten shirts sold, La Petit Écolière will provide school essentials for 1 child in a developing country through Plan International Canada. Our products are Made in Toronto from organic Bamboo & cotton.

$10 - $50

Each V Necklace is plated with 18K rose gold, and embedded with nine delicate cubic zirconia stones. A portion of all proceeds goes directly to providing HPV testing kits to people who need them.

Our social and business missions are intertwined - selling more kits, we enable more screening. We also have a community screening program enabling public kit donations to high risk low-income individuals.

$10 - $50

Evekit.com is a personal health screening service that makes sexual health testing simple, easy and convenient. It allows women to test for HPV right from home!

Our social and business missions are intertwined - selling more kits, we enable more screening. We also have a community screening program enabling public kit donations to high risk low-income individuals.

$100 +

Room 217’s Music Collection is informed by evidence-based, therapeutic and artistic literature. CDs are made especially for people at the end of life, and their caregivers.

There is a need for a comprehensive music care model that addresses person-centred care and that accounts for the dynamic ways in which music can be expressed, made, interpreted and delivered as care.

$50 -$100

Help a student fund tuition or a graduate pay back student loans (OSAP) through HigherEdPoints.com Convert loyalty points, or purchase a HigherEdPoints Certificate

Increase accessibility of high education for Canadians.

$100 +

Karma is proud to offer our first ever holiday gift bags featuring local, organic, artisanal products in reusable cotton bulk bags and Karma Totes.

We carry zero-waste bulk items, fresh, local organic produce, health supplements and high quality, eco-friendly, packaged goods, making Karma a “one-stop” shop for the conscious consumer.

$50 -$100

We welcome you to wear our handcrafted jewellery, walk in our fashionable boots with confidence and feel comfortable in our uniquely designed clothing.

ENAGB Cedar Basket brings opportunity to provide training for youth in the retail industry, while promoting our authentically handmade products and the arts of our First Nations, Inuit & Metis people.

Less than $10

Brighten Up your home while Building Up the careers of community members. Send your loved one a fresh coat for the new year in their office, house, apartment or bedroom.

Building Up reduces water consumption by billions of litres, reduces utility expenses for housing providers, and trains and employs individuals with barriers to employment to take on trades careers.

$100 +

Karma is offering our first ever holiday gift baskets. We’re making it easy for you to give local, organic, artisanal products to your colleagues and loved ones.

Our aim is to: Create a community of actively participating members; Foster a healthy connection to the food we eat, the people who grow it, and the other organizations who share our beliefs; and more.

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get into this season's latest athleisure trend mesh panels carefully placed to flatter and lengthen legs high waist with wide waistband is comfortable and flattering made from soft 88% nylon/12% lycra

We produce 100% in Canada and use eco-conscious fabrics. We offer inclusive sizing for all women sized XS-20.

$50 -$100

The Toronto Tool Library and Sharing Depot have over 10,000 items to loan. Don't fill your garage with stuff you rarely use, at the library of things you can borrow camping equipment, power tools and much more!

We reduce the cost and impact of consuming more things we rarely use. A membership to the Library saves money and gives you access to an abundance of goods you no longer need to buy and store yourself.

$50 -$100

Honey pops are full of gift giving potential. We can solve all of your holiday gift giving troubles right now! Teachers, friends, and family are sure to appreciate a special mug filled with a variety of tea.

Our apiary helps to support our local biodiversity through pollinating our community gardens and native wild flowers and training youth. If we take care of honey bees they will continue to take care of us!

Less than $10

Talk to us about your business idea with a social and/or environmental mission. We can help. Services include business planning and project management to build rural social enterprises.

SERA provides a voice and a knowledge platform for rural Ontario organizations interested in the social economy & solutions to grow impact and sustainability in rural communities.

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Holiday Blend

Salt Spring Coffee is a Certified B Corp. In 2017 our coffee and company was named Best for the World (for the third time in five years!) for the effectiveness of our sustainability programs.

$10 - $50

Give an experience of a lifetime! Your guest will work alongside our build team for 4 hours, to help build a Habitat home. Includes a commemorative e-photo, Habitat t-shirt, lunch onsite, & lasting impact.

Mobilize volunteers and partners in providing opportunities for families to achieve affordable and sustainable home ownership as a means of breaking the cycle of poverty and strengthening communities.

$100 +

Inspirations Studio makes a range of pottery mugs, platters and bowls

The Mission of Inspirations Studio is to build on member’s capacity to supplement their income and enhance their livelihoods pottery production and business development.

All

100% Naturally Alkaline Spring Water in an eco-friendly box. Flow Water's unique, family-owned spring in Bruce County gives the water naturally occurring electrolytes, essential minerals and a pH of 8.1.

B Corp Certified. Reduced use of plastic bottles by packaging with TetraPaks. Reduced energy consumption via Bullfrog Power at manufacturing. 2% of proceeds contributed to social wellbeing in our communities.

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Support community-owned renewable energy in Eastern Ontario with a lifetime membership of the Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-operative. Let's bring more clean electricity that is owned by the community.

700 members have financed 1.7 MW of local solar power projects; enough to power 350 homes year round with clean, pollution-free electricity.

$50 -$100

Paintbox’s gifts specializes in handcrafting gourmet goods made with locally source ingredients. We aim to generate social improvements through Healthy, delicious products that supports a sustainable food econ

Paintbox provides training and career development to marginalized individuals and ongoing improvement to environmental practices, using B corporation standards as a blueprint / road-map

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Artisanal and ethical gift boxes, Good Saul donates 15% of all sales to a fundraiser of your choice

15% of all product sales donated to Saul Good Gift Co. to a fundraiser of your choice.

$100 +