Fair Trade Organizations North America

Directory Fair Trade Associations, Federations, Councils, Organizations

In alphabetical order

Fair Trade Federation (FTF) – North America
The mission of the Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is to foster an equitable and sustainable global system of production and trade. As a trade organization, FTF supports an economically just and socially responsible model of partnership between producers and marketers, assuring living wages and safe, healthy working conditions. FTF builds market preference for fairly traded goods, empowering low-income artisans and farmers worldwide to better their lives.
The Fair Trade Federation is an association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide. FTF directly links low-income producers with consumer markets and educates consumers about the importance of purchasing fairly traded products which support living wages and safe and healthy conditions for workers in the developing world. FTF also acts as a clearinghouse for information on fair trade and provides resources and networking opportunities for its members. Some of the products that FTF members provide include: accessories, baskets, clothing, coffee, crafts as art, food products, housewares, jewelry, kitchenware, musical instruments, paper products, pottery, textiles, toys, traditional crafts and folk art from all over the world.
> ftrn.org

Fair Trade Resource Network (FTRN)
Education and Discussion to Make Trade Fair
Founded in 1999, the Fair Trade Resource Network (FTRN) seeks to build a more just and sustainable world by gathering, developing, and disseminating educational resources about Fair Trade. FTRN is the only non-profit organization in the world focused exclusively on Fair Trade education, helping people to better understand the impact of their buying decisions.
FTRN also works to create a space for dialogue and exchange within the Fair Trade movement. Whether through in-person meetings or online exchanges, FTRN propels the Fair Trade movement in the US through critical discourse and information sharing.
> ftrn.org

Global Exchange
As an education and action resource center, we advance our vision by working to ensure our members and constituents are empowered locally and connected globally to create a just and sustainable world.
Global Exchange® takes a holistic approach to creating change. With 20 years working for international human rights, we realize that in order to advance social, environmental and economic justice we must transform the global economy from profit centered to people centered, from currency to community.
> globalexchange.org

Ten Thousand Villages
The global fair trade movement began with the founding of Ten Thousand Villages more than 60 years ago through the visionary work of Edna Ruth Byler, a pioneering businesswoman. Byler was struck by the overwhelming poverty she witnessed during a trip to Puerto Rico in 1946, where she was moved to take action. The seminal contribution of Byler ignited a global movement to eradicate poverty through market-based solutions.
One of the world’s largest fair trade organizations and a founding member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), the company strives to improve the livelihood of tens of thousands of disadvantaged artisans in 38 countries.
> tenthousandvillages.com

TransFair USA
TransFair USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is one of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States.
We audit transactions between US companies offering Fair Trade Certified™ products and the international suppliers from whom they source, in order to guarantee that the farmers and farm workers behind Fair Trade Certified goods were paid a fair, above-market price. In addition, annual inspections conducted by FLO ensure that strict socioeconomic development criteria are being met using increased Fair Trade revenues.
> transfairusa.org