11 Brands Making an Impact this Giving Tuesday

You may know KEEN for its reliable and comfortable hiking shoes, but the brand also creates comfy slides and slippers for those who prefer the great indoors. This year, they’ve created a limited-edition Ukraine Shanti Slide to benefit the Everyday Refugees Foundation, an organization that aims to help those displaced by war, natural disaster, discrimination, or poverty. All profits from the Shanti Slide will go to Everyday Refugees Foundation to help Ukrainian families in Romania who have been forced to flee their homes.

Founded with the idea that beauty and emotional well-being can and should go together, selfmade creates clean, multi-use products that encourage you to take care of yourself. For Giving Tuesday, the brand is offering 20 percent off sitewide and donating 20 percent of sales to World Central Kitchen.

Foria is a staff favorite and a Katie’s Shop brand. All of the brand’s products are organic and plant-based, aimed to help you lead a vibrant life, in and out of the bedroom. Whether you want to upgrade your bath time with relaxing bath salts or enhance arousal with an intimacy oil, Foria has you covered. This Giving Tuesday, Foria is partnering with Beam to give back 2 percent of each purchase to Soul2Soul Sisters, Women’s Earth Alliance, or Kiss the Ground.

Thistle Farms provides a loving community, supportive housing, employment and education opportunities for female survivors of domestic abuse, trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. Members are a part of Thistle Farm free of charge for up to two years, and work together to create nurturing bath, body, home decor, and apparel products. Thistle Farms also partners with artisans around the world to sell handcrafted, responsibly made products that support those living in impoverished communities. We love the Davi Knit Scarf, which is handwoven by women in Nepal, for a cozy gift, or one of Thistle Farms’ gift sets packed with their handmade body and home products.

Material’s compact kitchen essentials do more than streamline your cabinets. Since its founding, Material has donated over $100,000 to organizations helping the underserved through food, including formerly incarcerated people and elderly Asian-Americans. This year, Material is hosting a sitewide sale and giving you the opportunity to donate a portion of your savings to the Lower East Side Girls Club, which connects young women and gender-expansive youth of color throughout New York City to healthy and successful futures through free, innovative year-round programming and mentoring. To make your impact even greater, shop this cutting board, which is made entirely of recycled plastic and from which 50 percent of its profits go to Heart of Dinner.

We talk a lot about Line in the Sand, and for good reason: Katie loves the comfortably chic, sun-protective swimwear that doubles as activewear, and the company has an incredible mission too. Founder Lynne O’Brien started LITS after being diagnosed with leukemia eight years ago and struggling to find swimwear that truly protected her from the sun. Line in the Sand’s swimwear is all made right in New York City using 100 percent recycled nylon fabric, and 100 percent of their profits go to organizations that fight cancer and protect the oceans year-round. Katie spends a lot of time in the cozy Afternoon Zip Hoodie, which is made of an eco-friendly blend of cotton and recycled beechwood MicroModal.

Elise Rosenstock has been using her handmade jewelry to support different charities since 2004, including Stand Up to Cancer, which Katie co-founded over a decade ago. A portion of the proceeds from her charitable bracelets — like this beautifully simple breast cancer awareness bracelet — go toward Stand Up to Cancer and other incredible organizations.

Business and life partners Helen Russell and Brooke O’Donnell co-founded Equator Coffees in 1995 with a laser focus on prioritizing quality and the “Chain of Well-Being”, from farm to cup. In the 25 years since, Equator has become Fair Trade Certified and a Certified B Corporation, founded its own ethical coffee farm, began using energy-efficient roasters, and rolled out blends that support a range of charities. Equator donates $3 from every World Bicycle Relief Blend sold to the namesake organization, which distributes high quality bicycles to rural and remote communities to help children get to school, doctors get to patients, adults get to work, and more.

New moms and colleagues Fatma Collins and Julie Rogers founded Ten Little to revolutionize the process of buying children’s shoes from the ground up. They created physician-backed shoes that encourage proper foot growth and a comprehensive fit guide to help parents determine the exact right size for their little one. And since kids can sometimes grow out of shoes too quickly to get the full life out of them, Ten Little has partnered with Soles4Souls to repurpose gently used shoes, keep them out of the landfill, and support impoverished communities along the way.

True to its name, tentree plants ten trees for every purchase, a refreshingly simple environmental commitment that you can actually track with a registration code. This Giving Tuesday, tentree is also donating 10 percent of all sales to Monarch Joint Venture, a nonprofit working to protect monarch butterflies and their migration by collaborating with partners to deliver habitat conservation, education, and science across the United States.

Fact: 785 million people around the world live without clean water, which means, beyond the obvious health consequences, adults and kids have to spend hours every day gathering water, keeping them out of work and school. Ben Kander aims to address this lack of access with Welly, which donates 1 percent of each sale to initiatives bringing clean water to communities in need. Welly has brought clean water sources to more than 1,000 people since its founding, and is now in the process of funding its fourth project. We’re loving Welly’s Camp Cup, which will keep your afternoon tea warm for up to six hours.