Brands With Heart + 800 Giveaway!

I've said this before, but it bears repeating. One of my favorite things about blogging is having the opportunity to build connections and relationships with brands that give back to the community. Today I wanted to take the opportunity to shine the light on these brands with a quick recap of some of my favorites.

I hope you all had a great weekend and enjoy reading about these truly impactful brands!

Also, don't miss your chance to enter our $800 giveaway!

XOXO,
Anna

Compassion Brands - Don't Be a Bully 

Compassion Brands is a luxury trend fashion brand developed to raise awareness and funds for anti bullying charities across the US (...you may have recently spotted them in People Style Watch :) ...).  For the past two years I have volunteered as a youth cheerleading coach and have seen firsthand the impact bullying has on young girls and boys.  Compassion Brands is on a mission to help end bullying by designing jewelry and apparel which donates processed from every item sold to the anti bullying movement.

Flowers for Dreams

Flowers for Dreams is a Chicago-based florist on a mission to bring you beautiful, handcrafted, modern bouquets and an affordable price.  All bouquets start at $35 (yep, you heard me, $35.  No gimmicks).  Their stems are hand-curated at local Chicago markets to create fresh, unique designs for every customer.  Everything is sources, designed, and delivered by them right here in Chicago to ensure unprecedented levels of quality control.  

Bouquets come wrapped in recycled coffee burlap and cases range from reclaimed wood to vintage tins.  Not to mention, they hand deliver for free in the Chicagoland area.  And when I say hand deliver, I mean by real people, on the cutest bike rain or shine.  Get to know you're courier, too, as you might see him or her often and if you're nice, they may even surprise you with a bottle of wine or case of beer.  What's not to love?  And yes, that has actually happened. :) 

As if all of that isn't amazing enough, a portion of the proceeds from each Flowers for Dreams purchase is donated to a local Chicago charity. 

Hope's Couture

Hope's Couture, seller of this great floral pencil skirt, is a philanthropic brand helping to bring awareness and support for issues such as education, domestic violence, sex trafficking, and homelessness just to name a few.  Twenty percent of all sales are used to support and fund Hope For Women and Girls Foundation - a cause I am happy to get behind!

Mad Over You Tees

Mad Over You graciously donates 100% of the profits from each tee to a partnering community center.  Here's the really cool part: not only are the tee designs chosen by the children of these community centers, each Mad Over You tee purchased comes printed with a tracking number and QR code; wearers will be able to head to madoveryou.com to see how and why their purchase made a difference, interact with the organization, learn more about it's mission and opt to donate more.

Project Village

Project Village uses the love of bracelets to employ and empower underprivileged young women in Toronto.With each purchase, you are creating an opportunity for a woman to earn a living wage by hand crafting your bracelet. In addition, a donation is given from each bracelet to support the programs that will empower her life through a strategic partnership with The Jean Augustine Centre for Young Women's Empowerment

FEED

Created by model/activist, Lauren Bush (recently Entrepreneur Magazine as 6 Innovative Women to Watch in 2015), FEED's mission is to create good products (and stylish if you ask me!) that help feed the world.  They do so through the sale of FEED bags, accessories and apparel by building a set donation into the cost of each product.  Ultimately, FEED believes everyone has the right to basic human necessities, such as healthy and nutritious food. 

Lauren first created the FEED bag 1, a reversible burlap and organic bag reminiscent of the bags of food distributed by WFP (World Food Programme), to help raise funds and awareness around the world.  It was stammped with "FEED the children of the world" and the number '1' to signify that each bag provides enough meals to feed one child in school for one year.  

Thereafter, every product sold has a measurable donation attached to it and, to date, the social business has been able to provide over 87 million meals globally through the WFP and Feeding America.