If you do not have yet a sustainable procurement policy, see here on how to implement one and how to write one.
If goodies are unavoidable, choose eco-friendly or sustainable options (recyclable or biodegradable material). It is a good way to promote your CSR strategy to your customers.
- Offer reusable mug or water bottle in order to limit single-use bottles
- Offer reusable bags
- Choose meaningful gifts that will actually be used, don't waste resources and money with pointless items that will be thrown right away.
Moreover,
• Act on quantities & quality (e.g. distribute 1,000 recyclable/ eco-friendly pens versus 2,000 made in a distant country and imported by plane)
• Buy locally to limit transportation and logistics
• Choose manufacturers with conscious of environmental and social challenges:
- safe work environment to prevent work accidents and illness
- employees wellbeing
- ethical work conditions (minimum salaries levels, no forced labor, no child work...)
Market for Good is a B2B Marketplace for social and environmental organisations to showcase their products, services and activities- each reflecting one or few of the UN SDGs. For every purchase, the platform is able to accumulate the impact created and also showcases the way of how to amplify the impact by offsetting the carbon footprint.
Liberty Society is a social enterprise, of eco & impactful B2B merchandise & hampers that empowers marginalized women. Through our training to-employment model, we give purpose and dignity back to refugee communities & disadvantaged communities, to increase their income and overall livelihood.
We help corporations appreciate and value their team, supporters, or clients with curated personalized goods & gifts that are loving to the people and the planet.
Smilie is a tech-enabled gifting platform that transforms the way corporates gift to reduce waste and ignite delight. Through enabling recipient choices, we ensure that each gift received is desired.
By bringing on sustainable vendors, we provide sustainably produced gift options.
By enabling recipients to donate the gift amounts, we empower individuals to support causes.
Our premise is built upon great curated gift options - from products to experiences, and our platform enables any company to automate, track and measure their gifting needs - be it for internal employee engagement, external client referrals or memorable events.
Gifts for Good® is a premium corporate gifting company focused on empowering organizations to create measurable social and environmental impact through the act of gift-giving. To date, we have donated over $2.7 million to charitable causes, impacting the lives of millions of people around the world.
When you give through Gifts for Good, you are helping to tackle the world’s most pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges. We currently support the work of 80 nonprofits and social enterprises in 50 states and 72 countries. Each gift comes with its own detailed impact metric, allowing our business clients to benefit from unparalleled reporting into the real world impact of their gifting campaigns.
Gifts for Good is on a mission to redefine the $100 billion corporate gifts market by offering an alternative to the uninspiring, wasteful, high volume gifts of the past. Instead, we source unique, high-end sustainable products with compelling stories of impact behind them. Our GIFTforward® platform reduces the huge amounts of landfill waste caused by unwanted gifts by allowing recipients to choose a gift they actually want, or donate the gift value to a cause of their choice.
As a woman-owned small business and Certified B Corporation, our products meet the highest standards of verified social, economic, and environmental impact. In 2022, we also became certified as a Climate Neutral company after measuring, reducing, and offsetting the entirety of our carbon footprint.
Gifts for Good impact report to be found here.
With the rising need to conserve and protect our environment, the first green store (TFGS) encourages individuals and enterprises to adopt environmentally responsible lifestyles, and advocate for Corporate Social Responsibility policies, through the products given away during various occasions and events.
They work with partners who are certified for Ethical Practices in their manufacturing process, and their retail brands are very carefully chosen keeping in mind their design, environmental and social impacts.
The Sustainability Project is a Singapore-based business which aims to encourage and inspire the adoption of low or zero waste lifestyle. This is done through 3 arms – Educate, Transform and Inspire.
Educate - Through our blog articles, they share their knowledge and passion towards sustainability. You can find tips on a sustainable lifestyle, chats with other green business owners and other related information to sustainability.
Transform - Through their store, they want to enable low or zero waste lifestyle by providing consumers a wide range of sustainable products that are of high quality and at affordable prices.
Inspire – Through planning events (e.g. talks, workshops, educational trips and more), they want to inspire the next generation to be a change-maker for Mother Earth.
Products:
In their store,they sell various sustainable lifestyle products; mainly bathroom and kitchen essentials such as cutlery set, shampoo bars and more. They also have a series of pre-loved and imperfect products for sale.
Corporate Events: They plan events for corporates and schools to share more about embarking on a sustainable journey e.g. talks, workshops, educational trips and more.
Your Sustainable Store is a Singapore-based online store created to make a wide range of curated, stylish and affordable sustainable products easily available. They are constantly on the look out for more amazing products. They hope that by offering practical yet stylish alternatives, they can inspire more to lead an environmentally aware lifestyle.
Products range from cutlery, cups, to cosmetics and cleaning accessories.