Trusted brands using certified ethical and sustainable business practices.
Thrive & Connect equips young people in Cairns with the skills, confidence, and support to navigate life’s challenges and seize its opportunities. They offer outdoor-based social and emotional skill development and community engagement programs to foster resilience, open-mindedness, resourcefulness, and empathy. They also offer workshops for families, schools, and other organizations that provide support for youth who have experienced trauma, disability, or disengagement.
Thrive Consultancy is working to create a more equitable and regenerative economy in Arizona by helping small and medium enterprises become economically viable while empowering people and protecting the planet. They offer personalized workshops on sustainable business topics like business model design, product development, prototyping, pricing, branding, sustainable sourcing, energy, water, waste, and distribution. They also provide consulting services to businesses that are developing a cooperative structure, transitioning to a sustainable business model, or pursuing B Corp certification. Thrive Consultancy partners with local government and other institutions to provide training programs and events that are free for participants. For example, they work with the City of Phoenix and the Sustainable Food Economy Lab at Arizona State University to deliver a 10-week Sustainable Cooperative Food Business Training Program. For non-sponsored services, they offer sliding scale pricing for clients who identify as low-income. Thrive Consultancy is registered as a benefit corporation and is part of Local First Arizona.
T-Hues is a natural dye initiative started by Dynawash, an industrial laundry specializing in garment dyeing for apparel exporters in Sri Lanka. In partnership with local researchers, they developed a process to create 15 colors of natural dyes from tea waste. Coloring a cotton T-shirt with these plant-based dyes reduces the carbon footprint by 75 percent compared with a conventionally dyed T-shirt. T-Hues uses the waste materials from Unilever's iced tea manufacturing process and creates a range of natural dyes used by international brands. They also offer naturally dyed clothing and accessories under the T-Hues name.
Thulsi Super Seeds specializes in nutritious traditional foods like millets and grains. They provide Sri Lankan consumers with an alternative to imported quinoa and wheat. Products include foxtail millet (meneri), kodo millet, and barnyard millet.
Thumai Natural Farming Producer Group is a cluster of small-scale organic farmers in eastern Sri Lanka committed to growing affordable natural food and protecting the environment. They produce their own compost, liquid fertilizers, and biopesticides from locally available materials. Crops include dry zone vegetables, leafy greens, and legumes. Members also grow cassava, ginger, turmeric, pineapple, passion fruit, banana, papaya, guava, lemon, orange, soursop, mango, breadfruit, coconut, and moringa. Thumai Natural Farming Producer Group is verified under a local organic participatory guarantee system (PGS).
Thumbprint Artifacts partners with artisan companies in South Africa to make their unique fair trade housewares available in the United States. They are known for their hand-painted candles and ceramics, soy wax aromatherapy candles, and animals made from recycled wire, tin, and beads. Each purchase supports sustainable employment, which enables the artisans—many of whom are single mothers—to care for their families and contribute to their communities. Thumbprint Artifacts recycles packing materials, donates to reforestation projects through Grow Ahead, and volunteers at The Greening of Detroit. They are a member of Fair Trade Federation.
Thuraya El Kozeh provides leadership training, business coaching, and impact assessment support to leaders of organizations with a social or environmental mission. She collaborates with existing networks, organizations, and programs to provide services to social entrepreneurs for free or at discounted rates. Thuraya El Kozeh is part of Catalyst 2030.
Thuru Viyana operates as a social enterprise and aims to make tree planting and forest farming easier in Sri Lanka. By providing mature trees and plants at affordable prices, they aim to increase survival rates and encourage people to plant more trees.
Thusare Talking Hands is a social enterprise that offers shiatsu acupressure massage by trained visually impaired therapists. Their shiatsu service aims to help people who are suffering from physical and mental pain while providing employment opportunities to empower visually impaired people from disadvantaged communities. Initial training is provided as a joint venture between a Japanese NGO called APCAS and the Seeduwa Vocational Training Center under the Department of Social Services.
Thushi's Creations reduces the use of polythene, plastic, and synthetic materials for bags and housewares. They are non-hazardous, ergonomic, durable and fashionable. Their products are eco-friendly, not just by replacing polythene or plastic, but also by converting a waste material into useful handicrafts.
Tibb un Nabawi focuses on making prophetic remedies affordable and accessible. They offer traditional herbal supplements including barley powder, date seed brew, castor oil, frankincense, gum arabic, costus oil, sidr, senna, ashwagandha, black seed (Nigella sativa), henna, and raw bee honey.
Tierra & Lava creates natural skincare products inspired by ancient Mayan wisdom and generates sustainable economic impact for smallholder farmers in Guatemala. Their deodorants, sunscreens, balms, serums, and soaps are made from natural botanicals and minerals that are ethically sourced from local suppliers. Eighty percent of the botanical ingredients come from their own mountaintop garden. They source cacao from an organic farm in the Izabal region, copal from women in Uaxactun, Mayan black salt from Don Max, and beeswax and honey from artisanal beekeepers. Tierra & Lava is a zero waste company. They prioritize packaging materials that are compostable or easily reusable or recyclable, offer bulk refill options to stores, hotels, and spas, and minimize waste in their own operations. Any unrecyclable plastics are repurposed into ecobricks, which are used as garden borders. They have also invested in compost toilet facilities and a gray water filtration system. Tierra & Lava is a member of their local village cooperative. They are certified by Fair Trade Sustainability Alliance (FairTSA).
TigerMountain Foundation cultivates better communities through incubator farms, flourishing community gardens, and agri-landscaping initiatives in Phoenix, Arizona. They focus on healthier eating, improved wellness, neighborhood beautification and revitalization, workforce development, and empowering communities through service learning experiences and Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). Participants complete a Personal Strategy Roadmap, learn about financial literacy, microenterprise development, and healthy living, and work with a mentor to reach their personal and community goals. They sell fresh food through farmers markets, offer it at lower costs through local pop-ups, and provide it free to participants and people in need. TigerMountain is a minority-led initiative that is located in traditionally underserved communities and includes people of color, women, senior citizens, at-risk youth, the LGBTQ+ community, immigrant and refugee farmers, reentry populations, veterans, and people with disabilities. Gardens have wide paths and low bed options to accommodate wheelchairs. TigerMountain Foundation is registered as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.
Tilli helps children develop the skills they need to stay safe, healthy, and happy. They leverage the power and joy of playful learning and games to make it easy and fun to build core social-emotional learning skills, coping strategies, and mindsets. These include metacognition for self-awareness and emotional regulation, empathy for kinder, healthier, and safer relationships, and critical thinking for real-life problem solving and effective communication. The Tilli Learning Kit and Tilli mobile app can be used at home or in schools. The app reinforces the skills and provides data and personalized tips for teachers and caregivers. Tilli conducts pro bono teacher training and classroom sessions and is partnering with their sister organization, Without Borders, to provide free learning kits to rural learning centers and primary schools in Sri Lanka.
Tinkers Farm offers a unique approach to health care and capacity building and helps neurodivergent people in Northwest Tasmania thrive. They specialize in neurodiversity assessments, mental health coaching, walk-and-talk counseling, and animal-assisted therapy in outdoor settings on their farm. They also provide nurse practitioner services, professional development training for health practitioners, schools, and workplaces, and off-farm maintenance, repair, and building services. When Tinkers Farm assists with a building or repair project, they teach the required skills so people are able to handle their own projects in the future. Tinkers Farm is disability-led. They are part of a local farmers cooperative and a local autism support network.
TINKU celebrates Bolivian heritage and creates livelihood opportunities for indigenous artisans by promoting handmade alpaca garments in Germany. They work with Quechua and Aymara women from disadvantaged communities in the Andean highlands to produce alpaca blankets, shawls, hats, gloves, and other accessories that combine traditional skills and knowledge with modern designs for the European market. TINKU guarantees fair wages, supports women's empowerment and environmental protection, and ships in plastic-free packaging. They donate to UNICEF Bolivia and participate in networks dedicated to slow fashion and cultural preservation like Fashion Revolution and the Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative.
Tintory offers sustainable, environmentally responsible clothing choices and supports communities of artisans through fair trade practices. They use organic khadi fabrics that are spun, woven, and naturally dyed and printed by women from the Gandhigram Trust. Colors come from plants like Indian madder and minerals like iron. Tintory's packaging is plastic free and handwoven from palm leaves by a community of women weavers in Ramnad district of Tamil Nadu. Garments are designed to be versatile, adaptable, and fit many body types. Tintory is working towards becoming a zero waste venture by converting fabric offcuts into upcycled textiles and accessories.
Tisser Artisans Trust empowers artisans across India by celebrating and preserving local art forms, fostering sustainable livelihoods, creating producer enterprises, and strengthening the handmade value chain through innovation and market linkages. Their rural artisan clusters create housewares, clothing, accessories, toys and more using khadi textiles, Sambalpuri weaving, block printing, bamboo, clay, natural lacquer, Kalamkari, Madhubhani, and Warli artwork, and other traditional techniques. Tisser assists with skills training, design innovation, business development, financial inclusion workshops, and market access. Each cluster has a tailored business plan and explores certification opportunities. Tisser promotes sustainably sourced, environmentally responsible materials including natural dyes, organic fibers, and upcycled plastic waste. They are registered as a not-for-profit trust.
TK Helarasa aims to create rural employment opportunities and improve access to traditional Sri Lankan health foods. They partner with small-scale farmers to offer a range of herbal wellness drinks and food supplements including gotukola, belimal, karapincha, welpenela, hathawariya, kurakkan flour, cinnamon, and garcinia cambogia.
Total Management Solutions is a development consultancy firm offering environmental due diligence and environmental management plans for both private and public sector organizations. TMS specializes in services related to geographic information systems (GIS) including mapping of vulnerable and sensitive areas, site selection, and impact analysis.