Through our partnerships and by promoting positive, minimal-impact consumerism, we are helping to preserve our great world. Each business we collaborate with adheres to an ethical standard that aligns with our own—from minimizing our carbon footprint to preventing unnecessary pollution to encouraging healthy lifestyles.
Our Maha Loka bags are produced using sustainable materials and processes that support global economies. The products we offer from other brands are carefully selected to ensure alignment with our philosophy of sustainable and healthy living. A healthy lifestyle goes hand-in-hand with an appreciation for our great world. When you are in tune with your mind, body, and spirit, you have an increased awareness of the world around you. Promoting a healthy lifestyle in turn promotes global unity and sustainability.
As the Maha Loka brand grows, so will its community. We hope to expand this community through increased connection with other individuals and companies who care about the world. We believe that small actions by individuals lead to large-scale change over time. As individuals we are small, but as a community we are great! Our positive, social impact will rely on continued collaboration with our business partners and customers, all of whom are focused on making positive steps towards healing and uniting our great world through positive lifestyle practices.
To help enact this change, we challenge you to increase your awareness of the needs in individual communities. Change starts locally. It starts with understanding the needs of those around you. It starts with realizing the effect of local practices on the environment. It starts with awareness. An increased awareness leads to a desire to be active in sharing positivity, unity, and sustainability. Be conscious of the world and learn to listen and understand different perspectives. Through these simple, everyday actions, you may be an unstoppable force in helping promote a world in which we can all thrive together, while maintaining a healthy relationship with our physical environment.
Join us as we consciously strive to be great, live great, and do great!
They are a part of a diverse global network with an 80-year track record of peacebuilding, conflict transformation and forging partnerships across divides of race, class, religion and politics. It comprises people of diverse cultures, nations, beliefs and backgrounds who are committed to transforming society through change in individuals and relationships, starting in their own lives. Moments of personal transformation often mark a new direction in a person's life. And personal change can often lead to change in situations. IofC offers a unique four-point process for people to build trust in their communities: Start with yourself, engage everyone in honest conversation; acknowledge and heal wounds of the past; and build a diverse team.
Unicorn Riot is a decentralized, educational 501(c)(3) non-profit media organization of artists and journalists. Our work is dedicated to exposing root causes of dynamic social and environmental issues through amplifying stories and exploring sustainable alternatives in today’s globalized world.
Native Americans in Philanthropy engages, educates and empowers a sacred circle of Indigenous Peoples and philanthropies to create healthy and sustainable communities for all. Historically, NAP has supported flagship program areas — educating philanthropy, enhancing Native nonprofit leadership, and investing in data and research — to drive philanthropic investments to achieve this vision. Now we are taking a bolder stance towards supporting advocacy and movement building, as well, recognizing that these are also necessary to making positive and long-term impact in our communities.
Built by youth activists, for youth activists, Future Coalition is a national network that fosters community and collaboration among youth leaders and youth-led organizations. Young people have the ideas and passion to make incredible change in their local communities, in the country, and in the world. Future Coalition provides these young people with the tools, resources, and support to power their ideas and amplify their impact. The programming is split into three pillars all which work together to build up the capacity in the youth space and grow the impact of youth organizers across the country.
Serving the US and over 80 countries, Direct Relief is dedicated to improving the health and lives of the world’s most vulnerable populations. It equips doctors and nurses with medical resources to care for those affected by poverty or emergencies, regardless of politics, religion, or economic hardships.
The International Rescue Committee is devoted to helping those whose livelihoods have been devastated by conflict and disaster. It aims to help individuals not only survive, but to recover and thrive, regaining control of their futures.
The mission of No Kid Hungry is to eliminate childhood hunger by providing access to food through a variety of programs to those who wouldn’t otherwise have access. This includes providing school breakfasts, summer and after school meals, and food skills education, as well as researching and advocating for policy changes.
Doctors Without Borders is an independent, impartial, and global movement that strives to deliver medical aid where it is needed most. Its fierce independence and commitment to the greater good enables its doctors to go where many others can’t or won’t.
The Business for Social Responsibility, otherwise known as BSR, is a global nonprofit that works to develop sustainable business strategies. Its mission is to create a sustainable world in which everyone can live a respectable life within the limits of Earth’s finite resources.
Keeping the earth wild! The WILD Foundation is committed to keeping the earth wild by building strong communities that respect and protect nature. The organization envisions a world where its inhabitants respect nature, nature flourishes, and life thrives. The WILD foundation recognizes that positive change comes when we work together in unity, not isolation. As such, it strives to collaborate with governments and grassroots organizations to enable a unified conservation effort. It implements new and innovative solutions for wilderness, continually revolutionizing opportunities for the conservation sector.
The World Resources Institute (WRI) doesn’t think small. This global research organization turns big ideas into sustainable actions that help protect the natural resources of our great world. WRI focuses its work on projects relating to the climate, energy, food, forests, water, cities, and the ocean – all of which are critical to economic opportunity and human well-being. Its “Count It, Change It, Scale It” approach enables effective change at a large scale. These efforts support the organization’s sustainable development goals, which enable its mission of moving human society to live in ways that protect the Earth and its capacity to provide for current and future generations.
The ACLU has been defending the constitutional rights of individuals for almost 100 years. Whether it means fighting for LGBTQ rights or ensuring that women are able to make their own choices about their reproductive health, its mission is to protect the civil liberties of every person in the US.
H.E.R.O.E.S. Care is an affiliation of program partners working together to provide support to military families in the communities where they live. H.E.R.O.E.S. Care combines the power of national organizations dedicated to providing emergency financial aid, employment opportunities, and mental health care services through a network of specially trained care givers before, during, and after deployment.
Founded in 1909, Mental Health America helps Americans understand, prevent, and treat mental health issues that can interfere with their overall wellness and ability to live a healthy life. They also focus on educating Americans about mental health issues through their online hub of information and tools.
Gratitude can change attitudes, and that is exactly what Operation Gratitude is all about. This organization forges bonds between Americans and their military and first responder heroes by sharing gratitude. It accomplishes this through volunteer projects, care packages, acts of gratitude, and other meaningful engagements throughout the United States. Since its inception, Operation Gratitude has delivered more than 2.3 million care packages to service men and women, proactively bridging the civilian-service divide and effectively putting the “unity” in “community.”
Helping people; saving gorillas. The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund has dedicated over 50 years to serving our global gorilla friends, who are on the brink of extinction. The organization emphasizes gorilla conservation by focusing on protecting gorillas directly, conducting scientific research, educating future conservationists and communities, and helping locals with basic needs. This holistic approach is the foundation of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and it enables the organization to partner with global citizens and organizations to conduct effective conservation to save this endangered species. When gorillas are protected, so are their wild habitats, which in turn supports our planet and all life on earth.
Protecting the world by protecting the earth’s oceans is what Oceana stands for. As the world’s largest ecosystem, oceans are crucial to sustaining life on earth. Oceans regulate the earth’s climate, absorb carbon dioxide, provide livelihoods to fisherman and others around the world, and feed hundreds of millions of people. Restoring the oceans could potentially feed one billion people a seafood meal each day. Oceana recognizes the importance of our vast oceans, and seeks to make them biodiverse and abundant through policy victories, directing campaigns that achieve measurable outcomes, and advocating for ocean protection.
The David Lynch Foundation, was established in 2005 to fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities, including the Transcendental Meditation program, for at-risk populations such as underserved inner-city students; veterans with PTSD and their families; women and children who are survivors of violence and abuse; American Indians suffering from diabetes, cardiovascular disease and high suicide rates; homeless men participating in reentry programs who are striving to overcome addictions; and incarcerated juveniles and adults. The Foundation also funds university and medical school research to assess the effects of the program on academic performance, ADHD and other learning disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, post-traumatic stress disorder and diabetes.
Every person is made in the image of God. No life is beyond His reach. Founded in 1976, Prison Fellowship® exists to serve all those affected by crime and incarceration, and to see lives and communities restored in and out of prison—one transformed life at a time.
