Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, Uncommon Goods offers remarkable designs by independent makers, and we do it with a positive impact on both people and our planet.
We want to change the way business is conducted by making sustainability a part of every decision we make. As a certified B Corporation, we hold ourselves to a high standard of social responsibility. That means printing our catalog on recycled, FSC-certified paper, offering a starting wage that's 100% above the federal minimum, selling products that are fur/feather/leather-free, and donating over $2 million (so far) to our partner non-profits.
In 2018, UncommonGoods was proud and honored to be named a Forbes Small Giant, an annual list celebrating 25 standout businesses that favor greatness over growth. Learn more at uncommongoods.com/story
"From my point of view, Native Roots is the most efficient, most creative, and most highly leveraged way of increasing the contribution of the experience, culture, and ideas of indigenous peoples to our knowledge, understanding and appreciation of our world, and to demonstrating how we can create community and excite creative community enterprise around our common human interests." The Native Roots Story is an idea, a creative hypothesis, an opportunity to create connections, an intercultural contribution, and a creative community enterprise contributing to our common social interests. Native Roots is a network of communication centres giving our native cultures the opportunity and ability to explore, learn from, and contribute to their understanding and appreciation of their cultural heritage, contribute what they have learned from their experience of the world, and contribute to creating a marketplace of opportunities for the world to explore, experience, learn, and create connections with creative contributions and contributors to the cultural and creative evolution of our world. The idea is to develop Native Roots communication centres as cooperative, self-financing, community enterprises operating independent of the need for government, philanthropic and corporate funding but creating highly leveraged, high return opportunities for government, philanthropic, and corporate investment. The hypothesis is that we can develop a creative community enterprise by agreeing to operate beyond integrity with one another and by contributing information, ideas, stories, and opportunities to create connections, relationships, cooperative enterprise, and community around common social interests. The opportunity we have is to engage with one another to create the systems, the processes, and the art of communicating across cultural differences to create opportunities to learn from our cultural differences, discover the interests and ideas we have in common, and explore and create opportunities which contribute to our ...