About Fair Trade Sports

Fair Trade Sports, Inc is the first sports equipment company in the US to launch a full line of eco-certified Fair Trade sports balls, ensuring fair wages and healthy working conditions for our adult workers. We have sports balls for soccer, football, basketball, rugby, volleyball, and more.

We became a Founding B Corporation to join forces with other purpose-driven companies in our pursuit of a new, better corporate standard.

We are committed to donating all profits after taxes to children's charities, both domestic and international. Sound familiar? It's a similar idea to the one behind the Newman's Own brand you see in the grocery store.

The Change We Seek™

We seek to ensure fair wages and healthy working conditions for adult (not child) workers and generate significant dollars for children’s charities in the process.

• How exactly do your dollars help when you buy a ball from Fair Trade Sports? A significant milestone for Fair Trade is that the producers of a product should earn enough in order to provide for themselves and their families. If adults can pay for shelter, food, clothing, medical needs, emergencies, and expenses for education, then children no longer have to contribute to family income. We at Fair Trade Sports sell only balls that have passed the standards of the Fairtrade Labeling Organization (FLO). The payments we make for these balls includes a 20% premium, which is used for improving the lives of the workers, their families and their communities. Together, workers and management form a "Talon Workers Welfare Society" and decide how to dispurse the Fair Trade Sports half of the 20% premium to benefit the group (the other half goes directly to the workers themselves). Programs include community clinics and healthcare insurance - a first in this industry - as well as micro-credit loans and more.

• Until we reach profitability, we are donating $1000 annually to charities which benefit at-risk children worldwide. Once we become profitable, we will donate all of our after-tax profits to these charities.

Founding B Corporation

Fair Trade Sports

• Industry: Sporting Goods
• Product/Services: Eco-certified Fair Trade sports balls
• Location: Bainbridge Island, WA
• http://www.fairtradesports.com