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Unity-Fair Trade Marketplace Report Card
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Make a difference when you shop at www.fairtrademarketplace.com. Your source for socially conscious goods from around the globe, featuring Fair Trade housewares, artwork, jewelry, clothing, music, and more! Member of the Fairtrade Federation, 1% for the Planet,Green America. Visit our site to see how we give back...and to learn more about us!
Become a FAN on FACEBOOK @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Unity-Fair-Trade-Marketplace/148236376109 to be entered into a free Unity T Shirt drawing every month!| Location: Lake Leelanau, MI | |||
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Gifts That Give Back in More Ways than One!
When you shop at Unity - Fair Trade Marketplace, 3% of every purchase goes back to our global community!
By doing business the Fair Trade way, we are helping to support artisans and farmers around the world in their efforts to better their lives and their communities. This is a vital contribution to alleviating poverty and cultural devastation in developing nations.
Although it may seem like Fair Trade is giving back, in our minds doing business in a just and sustainable way is just plain THE RIGHT THING TO DO. We can't imagine doing business any other way. That said, we've decided that we need to give back in three ways:
As members of 1% for the Planet, we give 1% of our annual revenues to environmental causes. We strive to be environmentally conscious in all parts of our lives and our business, and this is one small way we care for the earth - by supporting those who are on the front lines working to save our planet.
Another 1% of our annual revenue goes to our local community. We all need to support our local communities in as many ways as possible - change starts at home!
Last but certainly not least, we give 1% to our global community. Sometimes this will take the form of educational programs for children in developing nations, sometimes social justice and human rights organizations, and sometimes for disaster relief - whatever seems most needed at the time.
Giving money is only one small way of making a difference. We recognize the importance of being active members of both the local and global community, and this will manifest itself in many ways. Please sign up to get our monthly newsletter and check out our blog regularly to see how we are making a difference, and how you can too!
We're all in this together, so let's do what we can with what we have and make a better world!
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What is Fair Trade?
Fair Trade is social justice in action! These are the principles we adhere to:
Producers receive a fair price - a living wage in the local context. For commodities such as coffee, tea, and sugar, farmers receive a stable minimum price regardless of the price in the global market.
We support participatory workplaces such as worker-owned cooperatives and small, democratically run producer associations. Forced labor and exploitive child labor are never allowed.
Buyers and producers work together to form long-standing trade relationships, with buyers offering financial and technical assistance to the producers such as market information, product feedback, and training in financial management. For more great info and contests BECOME A FAN on FACEBOOK @
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