- Mercado Global
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Founder(s) Ruth Degolia and Benita Singh Type 501(c)3 Non-profit Organization Founded 2004 Location New Haven, CT, U.S., Panajachel, Sololá, Guatemala Motto "Designed to build a better world." Website Mercadoglobal.org Established in 2004, Mercado Global is a 501(c)3 non-profit fair trade organization that links indigenous artisans in rural Guatemalan communities to sales opportunities in the United States through a model that provides both fair wages and investments in local educational projects. Mercado Global partners with thirty-one artisan cooperatives whose members have seen their daily income increase three-fold, has provided scholarships to send hundreds of their children to school, and has seen significantly increased levels of food security and access to electricity and water in the communities where it operates.
Mercado Global has offices in New Haven, CT and Panajachel, Guatemala.
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Internships
As part of its mission to foster a sense of global responsibility among the next generation of U.S. leaders and consumers, Mercado Global accepts a limited number of U.S. students as interns at its offices in Guatemala and the United States. The internship offers the opportunity to learn about the inner workings of a non-profit organization while becoming familiar with the growing fair trade industry.[1]
Like many non-profit organizations, Mercado Global lists its internships on the interactive website idealist.org.
Awards
- 2007 Brick Award from the Do Something Foundation.[2]
- Executive Director Ruth DeGolia recognized as an “Architect of the Future” by Austria’s Waldzell Institute for being an “exceptional emerging world leader and social entrepreneur” in September 2007.[3]
- DeGolia and co-founder Benita Singh featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine in honor of their selection as two of the “15 People Who Make America Great” on July 10, 2006.[4]
- Innovation in Social Enterprise Award from the Social Enterprise Alliance in April 2005.[5]
- DeGolia and Singh named among “the World’s Best Emerging Social Entrepreneurs” by the Echoing Green Foundation in 2004.[6]
- Yale Entrepreneurial Society’s Grand Prize at the Annual Business Plan Competition in 2004.[7]
Notes
- ^ http://idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Internship/145591-323
- ^ http://www.dosomething.org/programs/awards/2007_winners
- ^ http://www.waldzell.org/aof/ruth-degolia.html
- ^ http://www.newsweek.com/id/46105
- ^ http://www.se-alliance.org/summit_award_archive.pdf
- ^ http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellows/ruth-degolia
- ^ http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2004/09/13/mercado-global-plans-to-go-national/
External links
Categories:- Fair trade organizations
- Organizations established in 2004
- Non-profit organizations
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