Responsible Sourcing
Since this year, our supplier assessment process has been used to vet suppliers against leading worker rights and environmental standards.
What is 2005?
This famous basketball player is featured on page 16.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
In 2022, Fairware donated this amount in products to VSSL, Raincity Housing, and Direction Youth Services.
What is $17,000?
In 2022, we signed on to this project for PR and ad professionals who want a safe climate future.
What is Clean Creatives?
The largest share of our GhG emissions are attributed to this aspect of Fairware's business
What is Transporting Goods? (Shipping is also acceptable)
This vendor is highlighted as an impact vendor in the Responsible Sourcing section of the impact report.
Who is Great Bear Rainforest Essential Oils?
JEDI is an acronym for
What are Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion?
Denise sits on the board of this organization that is dedicated to enhancing Corporate Social Responsibility in the industry
What is PromoCares?
We joined this coalition that has a mission to create a transformative change to heal our planet with the belief that by working together, we can take meaningful action to restore nature while inspiring others to do the same.
What is the Restorative Coalition?
By improving project management to ensure timelines allow for ground shipment and ocean freight, we plan to reduce shipments made by air by this percentage in 2024.
What is 35%?
Our goal is to onboard this many impact vendors annually
What are six impact vendors?
Fairware plans to create an Indigenous Reconciliation Plan for Fairware in this year
What is 2024?
This percentage of staff volunteered in 2022
What is 52%?
In 2019, Fairware closed its doors and encouraged the team to take part in this striking event.
What is the 2019 climate strike?
As part of our commitment to invest in local community impact initiatives, in January 2023, we partnered with this organization to plant 10 kelp for every order.
What is Veritree?
While we have 200 vendors on our active roster, 80% of our business is serviced by approximately how many vendors?
What are 30 vendors?
This many languages are spoken at Fairware?
What is 13?
Fairware donated $ 592 USD to this campaign in 2023 which contributed to building water towers with the Planet Water Foundation.
What is Water4Good?
These three staff members are pictured wearing their Feminist shirts in this section
Who are Nicole T, Disha, and Minh Tri?
We did our first Greenhouse Gas Inventory in this year. 2022 marks the eighth year that we have measured our GHG emissions.
What is 2010?
In 2022, what percentage of suppliers used were Certified B Corps?
What is 20%?
Name 2 of the 4 actions that are part of Fairware's focus on maintaining a safe & diverse company culture
What are diverse holidays, dog-friendly, hybrid work, and staff clubs?
This new staff committee was established in 2022 to amplify our efforts, drive our in-house education and training on impact-related issues, and track our progress.
What is the Impact Committee?
In 2022, we were well down the road on a project with a leading resource extraction company in Canada. The deal was north of $200,000 and when we discovered that this company mined this material in addition to the zinc and copper, Fairware made the decision to drop the opportunity and match the client with a distributor who was a better match.
What is Steel Making Coal?
Fairware has a few certifications, name 3 of them.
What are Certified B Corp, EcoVadis Silver, Climatesmart Certified Business, Certified Women Business Enterprise, Canada's 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce?