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Certifiable

by Chris Van Bergen, Rebecca Van Bergen
August 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 13m
English
Wiley
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Foreword

In early 2020, as businesses and borders began shutting down in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, my team at Nest began receiving panicked phone calls from around the world. Retailers, who were reeling from government‐mandated store closures and the impending shock to their bottom lines, were cancelling orders from the factories and production partners who relied on them for revenue. As a result, the home‐based craft workers and independent artisans we work with—workers who make up an essential but often invisible part of the global supply chain—had lost their primary source of income. Since many of these workers live paycheck‐to‐paycheck in the same developing (i.e. poor) countries that COVID hit the hardest, this disruption was not just a nuisance, but a potential catastrophe for them and their families.

Our goal at Nest has always been to support these workers by giving them the tools and resources necessary to improve their quality of life. We do that, in part, by connecting them directly with the brands who source their products. In this way, the people responsible for making sourcing decisions gain a deeper understanding of the impact they have on individual workers—often women who use their wages to supplement their family's meager income—on the other side of the world.

Now that these brands were facing massive budget shortfalls, where could we find the capital necessary to keep our homeworkers solvent? Even the most socially conscious brands couldn't afford ...

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