Families Working Together to Create a Fair Future For All!
Now, more than ever, we need a way to connect. Imagine engaging your children in conversations beyond Zoom homework and Covid tests. Imagine talking about equality, partnership, and courage. Imagine your kids talking with their friends about how we belong to each other and how we can build a brighter world. We’ve created the Collaboration Club to do just that! Join us as we learn, play, work, and (eventually!) travel alongside our children.
Ways to Join the Club
Host a Collaboration Club Gathering
The Collaboration Club Gathering gives families a way to connect and gives kids a way to see themselves as changemakers.
We make it easy to host! We can do something online, or, in-person to your comfort level. You invite your friends and their kiddos for inspiring stories, fair trade styles, and fun activities. We will engage all of your guests… kids included!
Join our Team
Threads Socialpreneurs are women who share stories, inspiration, and style with their community. You can earn an income by creating life-changing work with women around the world. Through Collaboration Club, your kids not only get to see you in action putting your time where your values are, they participate alongside you.
Join the Threads Movement
Join us as we create life-changing work and connection with women around the world
Frequently Asked Questions
With over a billion people living on $1.25 per day (70% of whom are women and girls), there is an abundance of women whose employment with our cooperatives would dramatically improve their lives. We look forward to the day when fair trade is so common that it is no longer a distinguishing factor in buying decisions. Imagine the shift in consumer decisions when items have to be labeled with ‘products made from slave labor’ instead of ‘fair trade’!
We do not pay our Artisan Partners a salary or a percentage of the sale price.
We partner with artisan businesses, cooperatives and non-profits. We pay our Artisan Partners for the work they do up front: 50% when we place an order and 50% when the order is shipped to us. This allows our partners to purchase raw materials and to pay fair wages to Artisans while they create our products.
In developing countries, artisan businesses often do not have access to credit. Advance payments enable our partners to grow their businesses sustainably. Not only do the Artisans have consistent work by working with our groups, they are also guaranteed to be paid fairly per the standard of living in their country. Typically, this is 4x-12x more than they would be paid if they had other consistent work.
Threads Worldwide jewelry and accessories are made by our Artisan Partners in 11 countries around the world.
Our Artisan Partners, who are paid a fair wage, on time, in healthy working conditions, with no child or forced labor produce the Threads Worldwide line of jewelry and accessories.
