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Empowering Retail

Social businesses create job opportunities for underprivileged communities

Implications - Social businesses are steadily growing in number, and one of the ways these businesses help developing countries and underprivileged communities is through the creation of new jobs, especially in retail ventures, which range from bakeries to fashion design. By providing fair-wage employment, these businesses empower local citizens, ultimately helping them to improve their quality of life.
Trend Themes
1. Social Businesses Empower Communities Through Job Creation - Social businesses are providing fair-wage employment to underprivileged communities, especially in retail ventures.
2. Fair Trade and Ethical Employment - Companies are providing sustainable and ethical employment to women in developing countries such as Afghanistan, East Africa and Bangladesh through the sale of handmade crafts and textiles.
3. Restaurants and Coffee Shops Provide Employment Opportunities - Social enterprises are providing employment, training and support to individuals who have been homeless or have learning disabilities.
Industry Implications
1. Handmade Accessories and Jewelry - Small businesses can provide a platform for young and emerging female jewelry designers by offering resources and fair commissions.
2. Textiles and Home Decor - Fair trade clothing, accessory and home decor companies can create sustainable income-generating opportunities for artisans in developing countries.
3. Food and Restaurant Services - Restaurants and cafes can offer training and employment opportunities for individuals who have been homeless or have learning disabilities.
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Featured Examples

Empowering Accessory Collectives
Empowering Accessory Collectives
Chloe + Isabel Gives a Platform for Burgeoning Jewelry Designers
As websites like Etsy and Kickstarter demonstrate, people are drawn to artistic and original entrepreneurs who have finally found a platform to launch their own work, and Chloe + Isabel feeds off this… MORE
Fair Trade Weaving
Fair Trade Weaving
WomenCraft Offers Ethical Employment in East Africa's Mafiga Matatu Area
WomenCraft is an East African social enterprise that empowers female artisans by paying them fair wages to make beautiful crafts that are sold internationally. This income allows women living in the Mafiga… MORE
Empowering Crochet
Empowering Crochet
Fair Trade 'Pebble' Baby Line Employs Women in Bangladesh
Instead of hitting up big box retailers for baby toys, new parents can explore independent businesses like Pebble, which gives parents the opportunity to buy natural, ethical and handmade alternatives.… MORE
Nonprofit Coffee Shops
Nonprofit Coffee Shops
Strawberry Line Cafe Employs Adults with Learning Disabilities
More than just a hip and cozy coffee shop located in a railway station in Bristol, Strawberry Line Cafe is also a social enterprise that reinvests its profits in the community. To top it off, they... MORE
Hope-Promoting Handmade Bags
Hope-Promoting Handmade Bags
The 94 Store Employs Historically Disadvantaged South Africans
The 94 Store sells bags that were handmade by people in South Africa that have been historically disadvantaged. This social business creates opportunity by offering training and employment to these individuals.… MORE
Vibrant Fair Trade Products
Vibrant Fair Trade Products
Global Mamas Helps Ghana-Based Artisan Reach New Markets
Fairtrade, unique, empowering: Global Mamas is a nonprofit organization embodying these three traits through sustainable employment opportunities for women in Ghana, Africa. The company sells vibrant clothes… MORE
Vibrant Opportunity Dining
Vibrant Opportunity Dining
Cafe Create Employs People Who Have Been Homeless
Cafe Create is a social enterprise in the UK that provides elegantly presented dishes both in their Leeds restaurant and through their catering services in Sunderland, Manchester, Doncaster and Leeds.… MORE
play_circle_filledSustainable, Empowering Rugs
Sustainable, Empowering Rugs
'Arzu Studio Hope' Offers Employment to Women in Afghanistan
When you land on the Arzu Studio Hope website, your first impression might be that you're looking at the website of a fine rug retailer, but you might also notice they've woven mission into their business.… MORE
Empowering Bakeries
Empowering Bakeries
The Bread Maker in the UK Employees People with Learning Disabilities
The Bread Maker is a UK-based social enterprise that not only sells an assortment of bakery goods and catering services, but also employs people with learning disabilities. The Bread Maker, located in… MORE

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