
Fulfillment, Far From Home
When Kennedy Leavens founded Awamaki in 2009, she adopted a time-tested philosophy: If you want to help lift women out of poverty, don’t give mone...
Read moreWhen Kennedy Leavens founded Awamaki in 2009, she adopted a time-tested philosophy: If you want to help lift women out of poverty, don’t give mone...
Read moreDiscarded magazines pages that are transformed into vibrant holiday ornaments. Reclaimed textile waste that finds a new life as a furniture fabric....
Read more238 Number of makers in the Powered by People community. 82% Percentage of those brands that are women-led*, totaling 189. *PBP considers brands t...
Read moreWhen you’re striving to effect wide-spread, positive change, you can’t go it alone. You need partners. Which is why Powered by People is thrilled t...
Read more"Everyone deserves to make a fair wage." That’s Kazi’s mantra, and it’s one they have followed through on every day since launching in 2013. The br...
Read moreWhile studying at Parsons School of Design in New York, Calcutta native Nidhi Goenka got inspired by the Bauhaus movement of 1919. Which can probab...
Read moreA table runner, a pillowcase, an upholstered chair. You’re probably familiar with ikat fabric and its trademark, slightly blurred geometric pattern...
Read moreOver the past year and a half, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a mixed effect on consumption. Some categories and distribution channels for “essentia...
Read moreAccounting, order tracking, quality control, progress reports…in short, production management. To most of us in the western world, these processes...
Read moreMarta Castaneda, founder of Pais Textil, explains how she turned her passion into a profession.
Read moreChhoti Si Asha is a volunteer-driven non-profit that incorporates a livliehood center for women to make crafts, an after-school program for the com...
Read moreWhen Kythzia Barrera holds a handmade ceramic comal in her hands, she knows she’s cradling more than a beautiful cooking vessel. She is holding the...
Read moreThere’s so much beauty in the handcrafted products created by the artisans at AAKS, and that beauty is magnified a hundred times over when you lear...
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