Our Vision
- Our VisionAn economy that works. for everyone.
- Who We BackWe partner with social entrepreneurs to amplify the success of their businesses and the people they employ.
- How We Do ItWe help our enterprises grow further, faster through a combination of capital, capacity building, and community support.
- ImpactOur partnership accelerates the growth and impact of the enterprises we back.
Our Work
- Our WorkWe invest in businesses that reveal and reinforce the talent of people breaking through barriers to employment.
- National Field BuildingWe invest in businesses across the country that reveal and reinforce the talents of people breaking through barriers to employment
  - CommunityCurated space and resources to help our social enterprise partners connect, grow, and lead.
  - AcceleratorA six-month cohort-based learning experience for leaders of early-stage enterprises to springboard growth.
  - GrantmakingCatalytic investments for employment social enterprises at key inflection points
  - Impact Investing FundFlexible loan capital for employment social entrepreneurs whose lived expertise is their collateral.
  - Gov. Partnerships & PolicyAdvocacy and public sector partnerships to advance the field.
  - Farber FellowshipGrad students bring cutting-edge skills and passion to help employment social enterprises reach their full potential.
- Regional EcosystemsWe’re cultivating place-based networks of social enterprises, inclusive employers, public agencies, funders, and social service partners
  - Los AngelesAn established ecosystem, focused on transformative scale
  - IllinoisA fast-expanding ecosystem, focused on policy achievement
  - AppalachiaAn emerging ecosystem, focused on seeding capacity & coordination
Investments
About
- AboutWe envision a thriving and inclusive society where all people have the jobs and the support they need to realize their full potential.
- Mission & CultureIt’s not just what we do, it’s how we do it that matters.
- Our PeopleWe’re a motley crew of leaders and learners dedicated to building an economy that works. For everyone.
- CareersKnowing your work is improving lives is not the only benefit of the job. View opportunities to join our team.
- SupportersOur generous funders and individual donors make this work possible.
- HistorySince 1997, Redefine Alliance has been using business as a force for good.
- FinancialsRedefine Alliance achieves the highest levels of accountability and transparency.
News & Research
- News & ResearchLearn the latest about the incredible work happening throughout our Redefine Alliance community
- Economic PowerExplore our research around economic power, and learn some concrete steps that employers and communities can take to help people build autonomy in their own lives.
- EvidenceWe evaluate what works and share our learnings to spark action for policy and systems change.
- WorkshopWorkshop is an open, free virtual capacity building toolbox to help you build, grow, and sustain high-impact employment social enterprises.
- NewsKeep up with the latest on the inclusive employment movement
- PressCheck out features & interviews on ESEs and inclusive employers from news outlets around the country

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Discover mission-driven businesses from across the country, where every item is handcrafted by talented individuals reentering the workforce after overcoming challenges like homelessness or incarceration. Shop now and help support an economy that works. For everyone.

1951 Coffee Company

Brew a cup of coffee from 1951 Coffee Company, a nonprofit that promotes the well-being of refugees by providing job training and employment while educating the Bay Area community about refugee life. They also offer thoughtfully designed drinkware and merchandise, ideal for coffee lovers and supporters alike.

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Beautiful Day

Beautiful Day’s award-winning gifts are proudly made for you by refugees, using only premium ingredients and sent in a beautifully packed box.

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Bellden Life

Bellden Life products, crafted by refugees through job readiness training, offer more than just quality — they create opportunities, build futures, and give back to the community with every purchase.

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Benevolence Farm

Benevolence Farm invests in formerly incarcerated women and gender expansive people by providing living wage employment. They grow herbs and flowers that are infused into body care and fragrance products for your healing and enjoyment.

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Bluesy Bee

Adding a little rhythm to life one spice, rub, and dust shake at a time. The Bluesy Bee Co. brings Memphis blues and barbecue together in bold, honey-sweet spice blends. Each jar helps create employment for people facing barriers to work.

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Bright Endeavors

Bright Endeavors proceeds support New Moms' nonprofit programs providing housing, job training, college success, and family support. Handmade by the talented young moms in its paid job training program, each candle, bath salt, and diffuser is a symbol of the love, grit, and possibility that participants pour into their work.

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Clean 360

Clean 360 offers small-batch, handcrafted bath and body products made by individuals in Oakland who have been disconnected from the workforce for an extended period of time.

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CONBODY

CONBODY is a prison style fitness workout that hires formerly incarcerated individuals in New York City to teach fitness classes. Buy a virtual workout pack and do the time with the best trainers straight out of the system.

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DV8 Kitchen & Bakery

DV8's shop offers more than homemade treats. Browse soft, buttery chocolate chip cookies, jams, coffee, apparel, and merch, all supporting its mission to create fair chance employment opportunities for people in early recovery as they build life skills and continue their education.

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Emma’s Torch

Emma's Torch is a nonprofit social enterprise empowering refugees, asylees, and survivors of human trafficking through culinary training in NYC and DC. Every purchase supports our students' path to meaningful careers.

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Goodwill San Francisco Bay

Goodwill San Francisco Bay selects some of its best donated treasures to shop online. Purchases fund their mission of creating second chances for people facing multiple barriers to employment through job training programs.

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GreenIsland Bakery

GreenIsland Bakery is an Irish specialty & European bakery that supports marginalized individuals recovering from traumatic experiences, and offers a unique workforce training program that combines positive psychology coaching and baking training. Their online shop is full of delicious treats!

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Greyston Bakery

Greyston Bakery doesn’t hire people to bake brownies — they bake brownies to hire people. Gift delicious Greyston Brownies and give the gift of opportunity, self-sufficiency, and success to a hardworking individual.

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Ground Up PDX

Ground Up is a not-just-for-profit business providing job training to women overcoming adversity. Any of their delicious nut butters — from single jars to curated flights — make the perfect gif to give the nut butter addict in your life!

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HB Threads

HB Threads is an employment social enterprise that provides employment opportunities, job training, and life skills development for individuals with disabilities while providing the highest quality customized apparel, buttons, and magnets to customers.

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Home Start, Inc.

Light up your home with warmth and love with Home Start’s candles, made by young women in their San Diego Maternity Housing Program as they build their capacity to become independent and self-sufficient.

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Homeboy Industries

Homeboy Industries provides training and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated people, allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of their community. Their online shop is full of goodies, from meaningful merch to delicious treat, with every purchase impacts a life.

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Homeless Garden Project

Homeless Garden Project creates meaningful job training and employment opportunities for people experiencing homelessness. Their handcrafted candles, soaps, teas, and other garden-inspired goods support their mission of transforming lives through work and community.

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I Have a Bean – Coffee

Give coffee that changes minds: I Have a Bean's Gift Boxes are filled with top-1% specialty coffee roasted, in Wheaton, IL, by people coming home from prison.

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InnerCity Weightlifting

Reduce stress and give back with in-home virtual training sessions from InnerCity Weightlifting. Click below to book a time for virtual training, which supports ICW's mission of ending street violence and fighting systemic racism in Boston.

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MADE by DWC

MADE by DWC is a purpose driven social enterprise created by the Downtown Women’s Center (DWC) to empower women in Los Angeles to break the cycle of chronic homelessness through employment. Their online shop features a variety of ethically crafted products, including candles, bath and body items, and more.

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Main Street Gifts

Main Street Gifts is where creativity meets cause—fresh finds, fun gifts, and a whole lot of heart. Every purchase powers youth jobs, big dreams, and good vibes all around. This shop is one of the businesses Parents by Choice runs to support workforce development.

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Mickey’s Popcorn

Made by survivors of domestic violence in Memphis, TN, this gourmet popcorn uses top shelf, double oaked barrel Kentucky bourbon, and has notes of honey and vanilla in addition to the buttery brown sugar goodness.

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Mindful Works

Mindful Works offers a wide range of hand-sewn products, from poufs and ottomans to throw pillows. All goods are handmade in Colorado by individuals in recovery from mental health challenges.

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More Than Words

More Than Words is a nonprofit social enterprise that empowers system-involved youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. Their shop offers books, candles, home décor, stationery, games, and apparel — with every purchase supporting youth in building skills and creating opportunities.

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Mountain Mindful

Mountain Mindful hires local workers facing barriers to employment to create durable, eco-friendly products from organic, reclaimed materials. The organization models a sustainable, post-coal future while supporting authentic living.

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People’s Pottery Project

People’s Pottery Project is a nonprofit ceramics collective that employs and champions formerly incarcerated women, trans, and non-binary individuals. Through paid job training, a healing community, and meaningful creative work, the organization builds pathways to stability, artistry, and belonging.

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Piece by Piece

Piece by Piece is an arts-focused social enterprise that offers opportunities to earn income while creating art to individuals who have faced economic hardship and/or homelessness. Add handcrafted charm to your space with collaboratively-made mosaic accessories from Piece by Piece artists.

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Rebel Nell

Shop Rebel Nell’s unique jewelry created in Detroit from repurposed material such as fallen graffiti. Purchases support employment, equitable opportunity, and support services for women overcoming barriers to work.

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Refugee Artisan Initiative

The Refugee Artisan Initiative (RAI) empowers refugee and immigrant women through sustainable craftsmanship, providing training, job opportunities, and the tools to achieve financial independence while creating high-quality, handcrafted products for positive social impact.

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Remark Glass

Remark Glass is a zero-waste glassblowing studio that offers a stable, supportive work environment focused on the future of recycled glass recovery and manufacturing.

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Repowered

If you’re shopping for high-quality electronics that won’t break the bank, consider buying refurbished! In Minneapolis, Repowered gives technology a second run and the people who restore it a fair chance, advancing the sustaining health of communities, businesses, and the earth.

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Second Story Cards

Second Story Cards creates beautiful, and at times cheekily irreverent, greeting cards, stickers and notebooks while elevating the voices and imaginative talents of people who have experienced homelessness.

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Stroopies

Stroopies, Inc. was founded to provide meaningful employment for resettled refugee women starting their lives over in Lancaster, PA, while making yummy stroopwafel cookies. Stroopies are a cinnamon waffle with a homemade caramel in the center, best rewarmed on top of your favorite hot beverage!

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SugarBot Sweet Shop & Creamery

SugarBot Sweet Shop specializes in high-quality, nostalgic, baked good, ice creams, and confections while offering meaningful, living-wage employment to community members facing systemic barriers. 100% of our team — founder included — faces at least one barrier to meaningful employment and living wages.

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Sweet Beginnings

On Chicago's west side, Sweet Beginnings provides formerly incarcerated individuals with transitional work and teaches job skills through the production of local honey and honey-infused skincare.

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The Refugee Collective

The Refugee Collective produces employment opportunities for refugees through two social enterprises, a textile manufacturing studio and an organic farm.

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Thistle and Bee

Thistle & Bee empowers women survivors of trafficking and exploitation through healing, housing, and meaningful employment. Their social enterprise features survivor harvested honey and honey based handcrafted granola, teas, candles, body products, and other thoughtfully made goods.

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Thistle Farms

Thistle Farms provides life-changing employment to women survivors of trafficking, exploitation, and addiction, giving them the chance to reclaim their lives and find healing. Explore their body care, home goods, apparel, and jewelry offerings.

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Touch A Heart: Baker’s Heart

Baker's Heart embraces, nurtures, and celebrates the unique people, culture, and resources of Hawaii. Their handmade lace cookies offer a crispy, light, and delicious taste that keep you coming back for more, and their biscotti bites are perfect for dipping in hot coffee or a cold brew.

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Unibody Fitness

Join Unibody Fitness, the house wellness and social justice built! Unibody offers in-person and virtual personal training services from their New York studio, all led by formerly incarcerated wellness coaches.

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Unshattered

Unshattered is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to end the addiction relapse cycle. The organization employs women in recovery to make premium handbags from upcycled materials so women can thrive on the other side of addiction.

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UTEC

UTEC’s products are handcrafted by young adults working to carve out better futures. Their cutting boards are made from salvaged New England hardwoods and finished with mineral oil and beeswax for protection.

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Vena Vena Handcrafted

Vena Vena Handcrafted was launched from a homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles. These leather bags, accessories, and home goods are all handmade by Vena, a local leather artist.

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Wagster Treats

Wagster's products are healthy for dogs and good for the community! Their treats are made with simple wholesome ingredients, while their crew builds employment skills that will lead them to a better future.

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Wildflyer Coffee

Wildflyer Coffee empowers youth experiencing homelessness through employment and life skills training, offering ethically sourced coffees available for sale through our website as well as a convenient subscription service delivered right to your doorstep.

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Women’s Bean Project

Women’s Bean Project is a Colorado 501(c)(3) non-profit social enterprise that supports women striving to create lasting change in their lives by establishing stepping stones to self-sufficiency. They produce pantry mixes, snacks, and spice blends.

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