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, [...]

Guest Blog - Janet Rogers on our work together in India

ZOË Alliance was named as such because we work in partnership with NGO’s,  local business leaders, and corporations toward the creation of a global alliance that helps to break the cycle of poverty in developing nations.  To date we are working in India, Haiti and Guatemala and each partnership looks a little different based on [...]

A Chance to Source Fair Trade Gifts and Promo Items

Busy days are ahead as we participate in our first Incentive Works show.  If you are in Toronto the next couple of days, why not drop by Booth 2224 and visit us?  It’s a fantastic opportunity to leverage your budget for incredible impact.  Hope to see you there!!

Haiti Update - Jobs, Micro-loans, and Housing Orphans

On Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Haiti was struck by a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake.  It has been 6 1/2 months since that day.  So much has happened since then, with many countries, organizations and individuals seeking to provide help to the people of Haiti. And as always, in the midst of incredible chaos, there are [...]