Introducing One Good Thing

We have huge aspirations about how we want to contribute to a better world as a business. But big change can take time, and we know that action is needed now. So while we get the bigger cogs in place and spinning, we’ve opened up our One Good Thing fund.

If you’re wondering why, the short answer is that we have to. We’ve made our demands about action on climate, equality and racial injustice loud and clear. The planet is crying out and people continue to suffer while in-action plagues policy makers. It’s time for businesses to lead by example and rally for change, step in for support and change the way we work.

How does it work?

$1 from every order goes into our One Good Thing fund. So yes, choosing to do stuff naturally is helping us! All the money put into the One Good Thing fund will be distributed annually across nine different initiatives that we feel strongly about, and need our support. When we first started thinking about One Good Thing, the list of initiatives that we wanted to support was pages long. But we thought long and hard about how we could sharpen our focus and increase our impact on causes that can help better the future of businesses in this industry, better the future of communities involved in this industry and better the future of our planet. Here they are…

Protecting our Blue Planet

Oceans are crucial to our island home. Our reliance might be felt clearly by those that reside by the sea, but even people inland are inextricably linked to the ocean. It produces half of the world’s oxygen, absorbs carbon dioxide and is home to ecosystems and creatures that support our industries, crucial weather processes and way of life. The ocean faces so many threats: from physical and chemical pollution, overfishing, temperature changes and ecosystem loss. The earth, like humans, are 70% water and we want to do all that we can to protect it.

Our Vision

earthYARD like many others would like to see a return to a plastic-free ocean and will assist the process by funding those that know how to manage this process.
The fate of our oceans and our planet is dire, and we need rapid transformation.

Doing One Good Thing

To help our oceans we will be donating an equal portion of our One Good Thing Fund to The Australian Marine Conservation Society to help them achieve their mission to clean up our oceans and fight for a blue planet.

Learn more about this initiative here.

The Imagination Library

Each month, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library sends a high-quality, age-appropriate book that is addressed to each registered child at no cost to their family. The Imagination Library provides the infrastructure of the core program including managing a database, coordinating book selections and wholesale purchasing and incurs the cost of the program’s administrative expenses – all to help make reading more equitable and accessible to all children.

Our Vision

earthYARD believes all children across Australia deserve the right to a broad range of literature catered to assisting with their development and preparedness for schooling years. No child should be left behind.

Spending time with children reading stories also helps to create nurturing bonds with parents or caregivers. Providing a stable premise for healthy relationships growing up. Everyone is different, everyone’s circumstances are different but if we can provide all children with access to books we can secure their ability to develop into their own strong human presence.

Doing One Good Thing

earthYARD intends to continue to support The Imagination Library annually and eventually we’d love to be an affiliate that can help to deliver books to rural and remote areas. Until we are in a position to do so we will maintain our support of those who are currently delivering free books monthly to children enrolled in their program and help to provide more spaces for children in this inspiring initiative. earthYARD will donate an equal portion of its One Good Thing Fund annually to The Imagination Library. These books are made for reading!

Learn more about this initiative here.

Escaping Domestic Violence

Domestic and family violence is the biggest issue in Australian society in that it affects every race, culture, age, sexuality, and social class. One in three women in Australia have experienced physical and/or sexual violence – these sorts of statistics make us ashamed of the society we have.

RizeUp helps victims of abuse to urgent supplies and care including emergency relocation, they also set up homes, children’s education supplies and more. Everyone has the right to a fresh start and a bit of help along the way.

Our vision for the future

earthYARD has a dream of providing a workspace and learning hub for women escaping domestic violence, complete with on-site FREE day-care, food and essential supplies, equal fair pay and transport arrangements from shelters, lodgings and supported accommodation.

We want to give women the opportunity to forge their own path, be it for a week, a month or for a few years. Providing opportunities to learn or relearn warehousing, administration, sales, operational management, quality control and even technical skills like natural cosmetic manufacturing is a great way to show these women that they are supported but also self-supporting. They are strong inspirational women and don’t need to feel like they are a statistic on the government’s hand-out list.

Our vision is to see every business in Australia have a dedication to providing some level of support and equal opportunity to women choosing to stand on their own. Ideally there would be no need for such activities in the future as violence and abuse are eradicated, though until then, we have our own goals for what we can do to better the environment these women live in.

Doing One Good Thing

Getting to see our vision come to fruition is the end goal for us, but we’re not there yet. We’re still a small family business with a long way to go. We need growth, community support and stability to provide opportunity and support to women escaping family violence and abuse. Until we get to that point an equal portion of our One Good Thing Fund will be donated to support RizeUp and all the important work they are doing.

Learn more about this initiative here.

Supporting Neighbourhood

We’re big believers in the good that can come from strong, healthy connections with our neighbours. This doesn’t just include the people you live right next to – it also includes the people that might usually be invisible. Those that are struggling, alone or forgotten. Everyone deserves to feel included in their neighbourhood and have a safe space to go.

Wayside Chapel offers services and programs with dignity, respect and love at the heart of their approach. They see everyone as a person to be met, not a problem to be solved. It is because Wayside Chapel is willing to listen, to provide support and opportunities that earthYARD feels so strongly about their mission.

Our vision

earthYARD has a pretty big vision. Education services, training, skill development and opportunity are all on our vision board. We are still young and small so can only do what we can with what we have.

Doing One Good Thing

The financial resources required to achieve all we wish to achieve is a way off yet. Until we get to the place we need to be to launch the next phase of One Good Thing, an equal portion of our One Good Thing fund will be donated to Wayside Chapel to support their efforts.

Learn more about this initiative here.

We've kickstarted our fund with $1 for every order we've EVER shipped and now we're turning it over to our customers to help us with our mission. Lots of frightening things are happening right now. And while it may feel like nothing can help, please remember that one good thing can.