HOW WE GROW
We have a commitment and a responsibility to share economic opportunities with our community that serve a better future for people and our planet.
Creating healthy economic and social systems is our most impactful work. We work to support the personal and professional goals of each team member both inside and outside of the store. This tent for entrepreneurial incubation expands beyond just our staff—we utilize both our physical resources and our platform to promote local vendors, activists, and healing practitioners.
We prioritize inclusivity and representation in our inventory, staff and community events. We earmark profits from the sale of books and products from Black, Indigenous and People of Color to be directly reinvested in BIPOC-owned businesses, racial justice organizations, and mutual aid funds. We continue to expand our awareness and support of transformative justice. We honor the heroes, thinkers, and leaders of the racial justice movement.
WHAT WE GAVE IN 2024
Every year we donate 10% of our profits to a mixture of both public and private recipients. We’d like to acknowledge a few of those recipients here and encourage our fellow community members to research them and consider donating as well.
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● Interfaith Works offers emergency services and support to our most vulnerable and stigmatized neighbors, not as charity but as an act of social justice. Interfaith Works Homeless Services is rooted in empowerment, social inclusion, and community education to end the unnecessary stigmatization of the most vulnerable.
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The ABC Reparations Housing Campaign plans to raise $250,000 for the Chaplin-Thompson family, who have been profoundly impacted by racist police violence and housing discrimination in Olympia, WA / on Squaxin land. We are putting out a call to our national community to do right by this family, by creating a fund for them to purchase safe, sustainable housing.
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We were able to raise over $1200 on the Palestinian Day of Sovereignty November 29th and distributed it to many families as well as the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund. One of the families was Mahmoud Abu Motair from Gaza, Palestine. He is a law student and struggling to support his family, as are all Palestinians. Please check out his fundraiser here.
