Announcing New Partnership in Ottawa!

INTRODUCING…EQUITAS!

Every day at ZOË seems to bring exciting new developments!  Today we have the privilege of introducing you to Grow.  Grow is a social enterprise in Ottawa, Canada that provides training and employment opportunities for adults with disabilities.

Two of their projects include wood and pottery shops, and we are delighted that the teams working in [...]

The Advent Conspiracy on Steroids

EITHER/OR  VERSUS BOTH/AND

Sometimes we get caught up in either/or thinking.  Lots of people have been asking me what I think about The Advent Conspiracy given that our ZOË Challenge advocates for helping those in developing nations by buying gifts that are produced in accordance with fair trade principles.

This week’s blog is a summary of my [...]

How We Define Ourselves and Others

Recently, I’ve come to a greater appreciation for the importance of how we define ourselves and others.  It was all triggered by the new partnership we just launched in Ottawa with Grow, a social enterprise that employs adults with disabilities in various services and product based initiatives.

Launching the product was easy and went live on [...]

Face to Face with Wilma & the Power of Our Gift Choices

This week we follow the storyline of impact created by a simple decision.  A small decision that didn’t take much time for one person however substantially improved the life of another and her entire family.

It all began with a large financial services client who was planning a fall conference for their associates.  Like many of [...]

Equip Leadership Finds A New Way to Equip Leaders

“The leadership training that we do can seem like a high and lofty theoretical thing at times.  When you look

Lorie Hartshorn of Equip Leadership on the left

at this pen, the people that made this pen are leaders.  They face problems and challenges and the making of this pen is helping to provide [...]

Great News - Medical Clinic Underway in India!

Hi Everyone,

It has been quite a while since we provided an update on the progress of the medical clinic in India.  This past week Janet Rogers of VIA Design was in Canada for the launch of the ZOË Challenge giving us a great opportunity to get caught up on all the progress in India with [...]

Creating a Movement to Help End Poverty and Hunger

ZOË Alliance is launching our ZOË Challenge later today at an inspiring event in Toronto.  Our goal simply put is to create a movement.  Pretty audacious, we know.  It’s worth a try, because it would help enable 1/3 of the people that we share this planet to live healthier lives.

We invite you to join us [...]

Small Choices with Powerful Outcomes - Join us to Find out More

At ZOË Alliance in many ways we focus on something that is really a very small part of what most people think about – gifts & promo items.

With the all consuming demands of business and the broader scope of conferences and events, the giveaways or gifts are usually a fairly small part of the planning [...]

New Product Announcement from India!!

Honestly, this is so exciting!  A very big focus for us is to find items that can ensure a steady and growing stream of orders into the villages.  The first couple of years it was very difficult to compete in low dollar value items at high volumes because of some of [...]

Is ZOË Alliance Socially Responsible?

Social Responsibility covers a very broad range of potential action in our businesses and personally.  At ZOË, social responsibility is at the core of our business, we enable people to have impact in one small, but powerful, area – leveraging existing promotional & gift budgets for sustainable change. While we are only 3 years old, [...]