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Driven Coffee Roasters
Purpose: To make a positive impact on the world by roasting and selling the world's finest specialty-grade coffees and donating 5% of profit on all web sales to partner causes.
Founded by Matt in 2013, Driven Coffee grew out of years cultivating relationships with some of the largest coffee companies in the country.
Innersense Organic Beauty
Purpose: We didn't start a clean hair care brand as a trend; we did it as a genuine concern for the health of people, hair and planet.
Founded by salon stylists Greg and Joanne Starkman — new parents to a child with Williams Syndrome — who set out to create safer hair care that didn't compromise health for performance. Innersense is a Certified B Corp.
To change the way you think about hair, to inspire you to live in harmony with it, and to empower you to trust your inner sense.
Levain Bakery
Purpose: To bring the joy of Levain to more neighborhoods, baking with the very best ingredients and a lot of love.
Two friends, a swimming pool, and a shared love for baking — Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald baked bread for NYC restaurants before opening their first shop on West 74th Street in 1995. Their famous chocolate-chip walnut cookie was a happy accident from their triathlon training.
Little Waves Coffee Roasters
Purpose: To honor people, places, cultures, and histories while cultivating health and wonder with the world around us.
Founded by Areli Barrera Grodski and Leon Grodski Barrera, Little Waves began in their mother's kitchen in 2010 in the North Carolina mountains. Their Cocoa Cinnamon cafés launched in Durham in 2011, and the Little Waves roasting facility opened in June 2017.
Coffee shops rooted in story and pluralism that exude excellence in craft, warm and welcoming service, and the feeling of wonder and discovery.
Makers Market
Purpose: To rebuild the legacy of handmade and American craftsmanship.
Founder Suzy Ekman spent precious time alongside her father in his workshop learning, making, and listening to stories in the Deep South, then traveled discovering potters, blacksmiths, textile weavers, and furniture makers — inspiring Makers Market.
A return to the good ol' days in a brand new way — a movement both steeped in tradition and relevant to the modern world.
The Citizenry
Purpose: Proving business can be a force for good — handcrafted home goods made through ethical, fair-trade partnerships with artisans.
Designs with a soul, a story, and a purpose. Slow versus fast. Meaning over mass. People above all else.