Businesses Doing Good

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22 Best Ethical, Sustainable Amazon Alternatives For Home, Cleaning & Personal Care Products

An extensive guide to the best alternatives to Amazon, specifically for all of your household and cleaning essentials

A close-up of two people communicating in sign language over two cups of coffee

At this café run entirely by deaf baristas, you must order in sign language. (Don't worry; they'll teach you)

The Dialogue Express Café also offers sign language classes outside of business hours.

Two mexican men: Adrián López Velarde and Marte Cázarez, hold up leather sheets that are greenish in color as they stand in a field of cacti.

Mexican entrepreneurs create vegan leather out of prickly pear cactus, helping save 1 billion animals a year

In a growing world of vegan leather alternatives, Adrián López Velarde and Marte Cázarez Duarte tried something new — and closer to home.

A pink and white sign for the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer sits in the middle of a pickleball court

More than just bags: Vera Bradley pickleball, golf tournaments raise over $40M for breast cancer research

The brand’s co-founders established the nonprofit in 1998.

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24 ways to thoughtfully celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in 2025

Hispanic Heritage Month (or Latino Heritage Month) is a month-long celebration that kicks off on September 15th. We’ve put together great ideas to help you celebrate it...

A small lab and garbage collector called CircularBlue sits on stilts in the middle of the ocean

This 'vacuum cleaner for the ocean' uses AI to detect and remove plastic waste from coastlines

Developed by phone accessory company Rhinoshield, the CircularBlue marine cleanup initiative hopes to clean up coastlines with ease.

The interior of a well-lit bookstore with light tan timber shelves and luminous columns

This abandoned office building was transformed into a floating bookstore — and you'll never want to leave

The Xixi Goldmye Bookstore is unlike any other.

An interior view of People's Book, an independent bookstore in Takoma Park, Maryland

Local bookseller donates proceeds of Republican senator's book to immigrants: 'We stand with our community'

So far, People’s Book has donated $7,000 to a nonprofit that supports immigrants.

On the left: Gerard Donaghy, a white Irish man, smiles as he puts his hands around another white Irish man who volunteered to help paint. The wall behind them is full of bright splashes of color. On the right, the Autism Centre for Helping Hands

A professional painter put up an 'SOS' on social media to help paint an autism center for free. 50 painters showed up to help

Gerard Donaghy said: “You don't have to look far to find bad news these days — it can weigh you down — but something like this reminds you that there's still plenty of good out there.”

A person holds up a pack of gum in front of their face so it's covering their eyes, but revealing a smiling mouth. The gum is wrapped in orange packaging with blue text that reads "hero gum."