Our mission, vision & values:
MISSION: Our mission at Heart in Hand is to connect people across borders through conscious, compassionate exchange. We do this by empowering marginalized artisans and curating fair-trade goods that honour craftsmanship, culture, and community.
To this end, we carefully connect people and organizations around the world who are doing thoughtful, values-driven work, such that both makers and supporters are empowered through the relationship. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do, and wherever possible, we work with and amplify the efforts of like-minded partners and initiatives.
Our mission calls us to continually grow and evolve our global network, guided by core values such as sustainability, transparency, and respect. We actively seek out meaningful partnerships and warmly invite artisans and collaborators to share ideas and explore new ways of working together: Contact us!
VISION: A world in which people act consciously and compassionately — strengthening and celebrating our shared humanity and global family.
Consciousness
Consciousness
Consciousness
We value a conscious approach to our work and to your involvement in it.
Compassion
Consciousness
Consciousness
We value a compassionate approach toward and by every person we work with.
Connection
Consciousness
Connection
We value empowering relationships between people and organizations.
What is "Heart in Hand"?
We believe “heart in hand” is a way of moving through the world — taking conscious action from the level of the heart. It is about choosing to be heart-led, heart-first, heart-forward, and trusting that when we do, every choice carries the potential for meaningful, positive impact.
We know change is necessary to address the social, health, and climate challenges that affect our shared human family. But no solution — no matter how complex or well-funded — can truly take root without the heart of humanity first. Lasting change begins with the individual. It requires each of us to engage with the world in ways that uplift, empower, connect, and cross borders.
Simply put, conscious compassion is the foundation of all meaningful work to alleviate poverty, injustice, and environmental harm. Somewhere within us, we already know this — in our natural pull toward kindness, toward simple gestures of love.
Heart in hand — mine in yours, yours in hers, hers in his, and onward.
That’s how we change the world.
What we do:
We strive to bring support, empowerment and opportunity to marginalized artisans and communities around the world.
We strive to make “humanitarianism” relevant, accessible and actionable by all people in their everyday actions and choices.
We establish direct, long-term relationships with artisans, producer groups and non-profit organizations. We also work indirectly when necessary, if we can ensure the producer group is fair trade, sustainable, equitable and ethical.
We market quality, handmade products to support the employment of socially and financially disadvantaged artisans. In doing so, we connect artisans in developing countries to customers in an international marketplace.
We market products that reflect and reinforce rich cultural traditions. In doing so, we encourage our customers to learn about artisans’ cultural heritage, traditions and social conditions.
We reinvest net revenue in projects that support other non-profit organizations with similar values and objectives.
We learn and grow. We keep our eyes open for new ways to accomplish our mission to “connect people across borders”.
