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Alternative Gift Guide: Gifts That Make a Social Impact

Designed Good's gift options that are making a sustainable difference, both in the U.S. and abroad

This December, there’s more impact to be had than slowly making a dent cleaning up the holiday debris of wrapping paper and gingerbread cookie crumbs. At Designed Good, we’ve focused on finding products with a story about social good—and in our own journey to curate these products, we’ve found some other gift options that are making a sustainable difference, both in the U.S. and abroad. That is, they’re designing and manufacturing products in a way that makes sense for lasting development and change. Here's a list of our favorites:

Apolis Global Citizen Garden Bag
Apolis is a purpose-filled social enterprise in Los Angeles that is committed to sustainable supply chains—they co-create every product with manufacturers; they have empowered people in the U.S., Bangladesh, Uganda, and Peru by spurring microeconomic development and investing in people.

This reusable garden bag isn’t only a fresh take on the plastic bag alternative, but also a typical example of Apolis’s global mission. Each bag is handcrafted by a cooperative of women artisans in Bangladesh before being completely finished in California, within 10 miles of the Apolis office.




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