This year’s vendors include:
Amani Africa (Africa): Train marginalized women in Africa sewing skills so they may provide for their families with the sale of handmade fair trade bags, clothing, jewelry and accessories.
Apparent Project (Haiti): Offer quality education and job skills training to help the poor rise up out of poverty and become future leaders of integrity in Haiti.
Christ’s Foundry (Dallas, TX inner city): Help the children, youth, and families of emerging churches in underserved areas as L Fundicion De Cristo, providing programs and meals; selling tamales for support
Dawn of Hope (International): Provide spiritual, charitable and educational aid to people who need assistance achieving life skills and pathway to faith and peaceful life.
Equal Exchange (Latin America, Africa and Asia): Provide sales channel for fair trade, worker-owned farmer cooperative producing gourmet coffee, tea, cocoa, and chocolate bars.
Fair Trade Winds (International): Promote the work of artisans, farmers, and craftspeople around the world by selling their fair trade, ethical, and sustainable products.
Feed My Starving Children (International): Coordinates packaging and distribution of food to people in developing nations.
Five Blessings Native American Ministry (Colorado and Utah): Supports the Navajo/Diné Tribes of Utah and Western Colorado with sales of handmade woven beaded jewelry.
Global Mamas (Ghana) Founded in 2003, the Global Mamas are mothers, wives, grandmothers, sisters, talented entrepreneurs and leaders in their communities across Ghana who produce hand-crafted items using traditional techniques, maintaining local artisanal skills such as batiking, bead-making and Shea butter production.
Heavenly Treasures (International): Assist refugees, single mothers, widows, orphans, the physically disabled, those rescued from human trafficking with a fair trade market.
Hugs Café (McKinney, Texas) Hugs Café Inc. is a non-profit social enterprise in McKinney, Texas dedicated to providing meaningful training and competitively-paid employment for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Justice For Our Neighbors (North & Central Texas): Offer free and affordable, high-quality immigration legal services, education to the public, and advocacy for our immigrant neighbors
Marfa Ministry (Eurasia): Serve Christ by addressing needs of small churches in Eurasia in their journey to self-sufficiency and beyond with sales of art, reproduced in various forms, including prints, puzzles, and more.
Mayan Hands (Central America): Empower Mayan women to bring their families out of extreme poverty, continue to live within the culture they cherish and build sustainable futures with sales of fair trade woven items.
Ornaments 4 Orphans (Africa): Provide support for orphans and vulnerable children with sales of fair trade items handcrafted by local artisans in Africa, paid a reliable income and continually improving their standard of living.
Paper for Water (Global): Raise money to fund water wells and help children in developing countries gain access to clean water sales of handmade origami pieces.
Papillion (Haiti): Support at-risk mothers and fathers with full-time artisan jobs in Haiti, creating orphan prevention and family preservation as a viable solution to poverty and economic reform.
Quilts for Kids (Plano, Texas) This FUMC Plano ministry has delivered more than 100 quilts to children in hospitals, in just 2024! This provides comfort and warmth to recipients during a challenging time. Sustain their supplies with your purchase from a selection of hand-sewn items.
SOUL SISTERS for a CAUSE (USA): Be agents for social good with sales of unique and personalized products made by women for women.
The Coventry Reserve (St. Paul, Texas): Support a community where adults with special needs can experience a full, active, and purposeful life with sales of their hand-crafted pottery.
Trades of Hope (International): Empower women out of poverty through sustainable business.
United Women of Faith (international): Support the mission efforts of the United Methodist’s Women of Faith organization with sales of pecans and pecan candies
Wend Africa (Northern Uganda): Improve the lives of war-affected women, one bag at a time, with sales of high quality and fashionable bags made by women in Northern Uganda.