Inspirations
Building equitable, inclusive, and thriving communities requires us to reweave our social fabric in ways than honor our interconnectedness and diverse beauty. Illustra Impact uses this platform to amplify leaders, organizations, businesses, and communities who reflect this vision.
In the Spirit of Giving
Follow, Engage, Support
Volunteers in Colombia helps international volunteers find opportunities in Colombia. The organization is actively working on advancing gender equality and reducing hunger, two UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Perhaps their biggest focus right now is a sustainable women's empowerment project, Box2grow, in one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods of Medellin called La Honda.
Traceless is a female founded circular bio-economy startup. They address the global challenge of plastic pollution with a sustainable alternative to single-use plastics. Using their innovative, patent pending technology and a circular economy approach, they are able to transform agricultural industry residues into novel materials: traceless film, traceless plast and traceless coat.
Black Girl Ventures' mission is to provide Black/Brown woman-identifying founders with access to community, capital, and capacity building in order to meet business milestones that lead to economic advancement through entrepreneurship. They ignite civic engagement and hyperlocal infrastructure at the intersection of business support services, supplier diversity, social and financial capital.
Faith in Action is an international community organizing network that gives people of faith the tools that they need to fight for justice and work towards a more equitable society. They are working on issues of gun violence, public health, immigrant justice, and voting rights among other injustices identified by everyday leaders.
Shop, Hire, Refer
Dos Alas is craft cafecito & conversation that positively impacts the world by meeting people where they are with familiar coffee beverages from their home communities. Organizations can contract with Dos Alas' Orlando-based mobile unit to come to their events or enhance community engagement while supporting a vision for returning citizens and immigrants to become owner operators themselves.
Impact Coffee Collective is a collective of local coffee brands made in Medellin. Impact breaks the standard of traditional coffee production and exportation practices knowing that together they are bigger than the sum of their parts. The team is formed by experts in environmental innovation, specialized production methods, quality control, disruptive roasting techniques, and world class logistics and commercialization strategies, all allied to generate impact.
Rooted Strategy provides nonprofit management solutions to help organizations grow and thrive. They meet nonprofits where they are and partner with them to accomplish their goals through resource development, program quality improvement, learning and evaluation, and culture change.
The word Idea in Idea Labs is an acronym for Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity in Action and the company strives to advance these core values in the workplace through training, leadership coaching and organizational strategy. Through Idea Labs she fosters a culture of innovation, collaboration and belonging in partnership with non-profit organizations, government institutions and small businesses.
Same audiobooks. Different story. Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks through your local bookstore. This allows you to support small businesses which employ nearly half of US residents and are closest to the needs of our communities.
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Read, Listen, Watch
A survival manual for Latinas on the front lines of change. Social justice work is more crucial than ever, but it can be physically and emotionally draining. Longtime activist Denise Collazo offers three keys to help Latinas keep their focus, morale, and energy high.
Brené Brown hosts conversations with change-catalysts, culture-shifters and more than a few troublemakers who are innovating, creating, and daring to lead. A few of our favorites are with President Barack Obama, co-founders of Siete Family Foods, and Priya Parker.
Austin Channing Brown writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice, in stories that bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric--from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations.
