Sometimes we just love our town of Portland, Oregon. We were the first city in the Northwest to pass a Sweatshop Free purchasing policy, ensuring that all city agencies that purchase apparel do so from companies that “disclose the locations of their manufacturing facilities and abide by ethical sourcing practices.” The City, like any other [...]

I’m waiting for my husband to get back from picking up my in-laws at the airport. My house is never so clean as right before they arrive. Cleaning the stove itself was a 4.5 hour project involving three different (nontoxic) cleaners, about six different scrubby sponges and a toothbrush for in between the buttons. Obviously, [...]

Here at Global Sistergoods, we are lucky to be part of a growing movement of change for women the world over. I recently had the honor of meeting Liz Forkin, founder of SSkeo Designs. Sskeo makes the cutest sandals ever while providing young women in Uganda with an income and a bridge to university.
If you [...]

The United States Peace Corps was established today, March 1, in 1961 by Executive Order 10924. John F. Kennedy Jr., first proposed the idea during a campaign stop at the University of Michigan, asking students to give two years of their lives to help people in the developing world. Since 1960, more than 195,000 people [...]

We talk a lot about women’s economic and political environment on this blog. (And rightfully so. It’s incredibly important.) But, we less frequently discuss the other central principle to Global Sistergoods: fair trade.
While immersed in an unrelated research project, I came across the following in the article Rediscovering Social Innovation in the Stanford Social Innovation [...]