Each time you order with UncommonGoods, you can select a non-profit organization from the ones on this page to receive a $1 donation from us.  For every order you place at UncommonGoods, we will donate a portion to one of several specially selected non-profit organizations. At the end of the checkout process - after your order is confirmed - a browser window will prompt you to choose an organization to receive our contribution on your behalf.

We’ve included in our Better to Give Program a handful of non-profit organizations in which we believe strongly and whose missions dovetail with our company values.

Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities. UncommonGoods endeavors to feature merchandise made without harm to people or animals (for example, we do not sell leather products). Defenders focuses its programs on what scientists consider two of the most serious environmental threats to the planet: the accelerating rate of extinction of species and the associated loss of biological diversity, and habitat alteration and destruction. Long known for leadership on endangered species issues, Defenders of Wildlife also advocates new approaches to wildlife conservation that will help keep species from becoming endangered. Their programs encourage protection of entire ecosystems and interconnected habitats while protecting predators that serve as indicator species for ecosystem health. To learn more: Defenders of Wildlife.

Americares
As part of our commitment to the world around us, UncommonGoods donates to AmeriCares, which provides humanitarian assistance around the world and has played a major role in the relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the food crisis in Niger and the tsunami in Southeast Asia.

Heralded for its international humanitarian relief efforts, AmeriCares provides essential services for disaster victims both domestically and in less visible parts of the world. While they specialize in rapid mobilization to areas of hit by natural disasters, the organization also works to provide crucial long-term relief and sustainable health services. Since its inception in 1982, AmeriCares has provided over $4 billion of aid to 137 countries. To learn more: Americares.

Comprehensive Development, Inc. (CDI)
As a New York-based company, we also donate to a smaller, local non-profit organization – Comprehensive Development, Inc., which supports underserved New York City public high school students. CDI works in partnership with Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School (MCNDHS) in New York City. CDI’s mission is to help the MCNDHS student population graduate through a variety of programs including tutoring, mentoring, legal and medical advice, job placement, and homelessness prevention.

Most MCNDS students have already dropped out of high school at least once. By choice, they are returning to school as older students, still struggling to create a life. As such, CDI’s approach is passionately personal. Students are guided from the start with lots of individual attention, and often develop deep bonds with CDI counselors and volunteer tutors. These students are motivated, but have real adult needs. CDI responds in kind by easing life burdens. And because students feel supported, they can then focus on the business of learning.

Among other services, CDI runs the largest school-based tutoring site in New York with 150 volunteers tutor over 240 students in core academic subjects, ESL and SAT prep. UncommonGoods CEO David Bolotsky has served as a volunteer with CDI since 1990 and UncommonGoods employs students from MCNDS. To learn more: CDI.

Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF)
Artisans and their works are a key part of UncommonGoods’ mission to celebrate individuality and creativity. Through Better to Give, we are supporting CERF, a non-profit organization that helps craftspeople throughout the United States sustain craftsmaking as a livelihood by providing immediate support to professional craftspeople suffering career-threatening emergencies such as natural disasters, diseases and other crises.

CERF was founded in 1985, when Carol Sedestrom Ross, then president of American Craft Enterprises, ceramicist Marilyn Dintenfass, and glassblower Josh Simpson decided they wanted to tap into the inherent generosity that they had observed within the craft community. It is common practice at craft fairs for exhibitors to “pass the hat” for fellow craftspeople who were dealing with emergency situations. CERF was founded in an effort to formalize and build upon this simple grassroots gesture. Since its founding, CERF has helped hundreds of craftspeople from across the country. To learn more: Craft Emergency Relief Fund.

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