Find unique, ethically sourced gifts at this Seattle holiday market
Leave it to Bill and Melinda Gates to throw a Giving Marketplace, a market featuring holiday gifts that give back.
Most of us Seattlites believe that large corporations that produce goods using sweatshops are inherently problematic. A few businesses have been called out for having mental health crises in their factories, as well as being gruelling and inhumane.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is combatting this by offering a holiday market filled with unique, free-trade, and ethically sourced gifts. There will be everything from jarred chutneys to leather bracelets and knitted stuffies.
Posted by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center on Friday, November 1, 2019
The market will feature dozens of pop-up shops that support women’s and girls’ empowerment, refugees, global health, and the environment.
A full list of vendors include:
- African Women Business Alliance featuring African Print Takeover, Hawo Arts, Sage Soul Beauty, and Sweet Momma Brown
- Ajiri Tea Company
- Amplifier
- Aviation for Humanity
- Awamaki
- BaMattoke Made
- Bead for Life
- Chief Seattle Club
- Collective of Geniuses
- Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center
- First Aid Arts
- Friends of WPC Nepal
- Heartspark Press
- Kidz Positive
- Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery
- One Equal Heart
- Otra Vez
- Path with Art
- Pilgrim Africa
- Powerful Voices
- Push Pull
- Real Change
- Refugee Artisans Initiatiev
- Snow Leopard Trust
- Street Bean Coffee Roasters
- Theo Chocolate
- Unkitawa
- Venutres Non-Profit
- Water 1st
- Water from Wine
- Worldwide Fistula Fund
- Youth Care
- Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
- Zuri
Giving Marketplace
When: December 6 and 7, 2019
Time: 10 am to 5 pm
Where: Gates Foundation Discovery Center — 440 Fifth Avenue North
Admission: Free
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