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Making a difference together

We partner with businesses and organizations to make a tangible difference today for a better tomorrow. 

Here are some examples of what we've been up to...

Living wages in supply chains, socially sustainable banana production

Living Wage Strategy and Tools, with IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Living Wage Strategy and Tools, with IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Living Wage Strategy and Tools, with IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Heartwood is proud to be working, since 2019, on a pioneering initiative with IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative: the IDH Roadmap on Living Wage.  This includes working with the IDH team in the development of the Salary Matrix tool - a tool that is now being used by hundreds of businesses to measure the gap between workers' current rem

Heartwood is proud to be working, since 2019, on a pioneering initiative with IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative: the IDH Roadmap on Living Wage.  This includes working with the IDH team in the development of the Salary Matrix tool - a tool that is now being used by hundreds of businesses to measure the gap between workers' current remuneration and a living wage - and supporting suppliers, buyers and standard systems as they roll it out. 

  

"It has been a delight to work with Jessi as a key supporter of the work we do at IDH on living wages. Her understanding of living wages, the opportunities and complexities in that field coupled with her enthusiasm, commitment and team spirit have made her support instrumental. We are grateful for her assistance and commitment to our mission." – Ronald Sanabria, Senior Program Manager, IDH

Sustainable wheat production includes living incomes for farmers

Advancing Sustainable Supply Chains, with Sustainable Food Lab

Living Wage Strategy and Tools, with IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Living Wage Strategy and Tools, with IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Heartwood is thrilled to be working with Sustainable Food Lab to help food and beverage companies meaningfully progress toward their living income and sustainable agriculture goals. This includes research designed to derive actionable information, and using that information to help build and maintain strong programs.

Living Wage Data Validation, with leading buyers and producers

Living Wage Strategy and Tools, with IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Living Wage Data Validation, with leading buyers and producers

Heartwood works with a nearly a dozen retailers, and dozens of suppliers and producers - individually and through collaborative trade initiatives - to validate living wage data and provide advise on next steps in the living wage journey.

Living Wage auditor training

Living Wage Auditor Training, with Impact Buying

Technical Advising with the Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)

Living Wage Data Validation, with leading buyers and producers

Heartwood helped develop the first auditor trainings, offered by Impact Buying Academy, that is aligned with IDH's Roadmap on Living Wages, auditor guidelines and the Salary Matrix. The training offers the verification alignment program needed to provide trust in the results and help all stakeholders feel more confident. Auditors for over a dozen leading schemes have now been trained.

Tea farmer, living income is a human right

Technical Advising with the Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)

Technical Advising with the Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)

Technical Advising with the Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)

Heartwood Principle, Jessica Grillo, serves on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP) to support activities aligned with the vision of thriving, economically stable, rural communities linked to global food and agricultural supply chains.

Coffee plants to bring us sustainably produced coffee

Audit Data for M&E, with a Leading Agriculture Standard

Technical Advising with the Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)

Technical Advising with the Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)

We conducted research to help a leading sustainability standard maximize their use of audit information for performance measurement and reporting

Communities protecting forests and building strong futures

REDD+ Due Diligence, with Everland LLC

Policy Linked to Socially Sustainable Sourcing, with Burton

Guidance for the Living Income Community of Practice

We are proud to have advised on due diligence to enhance REDD+ project performance and reporting


Fresh fruit

Guidance for the Living Income Community of Practice

Policy Linked to Socially Sustainable Sourcing, with Burton

Guidance for the Living Income Community of Practice

Developed research guidance, with funding from GIZ on     

Applying the Household Economy Approach to Measure and Address Income Gaps in Agriculture Supply Chains.  

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Policy for sustainable sporting good manufacturing

Policy Linked to Socially Sustainable Sourcing, with Burton

Policy Linked to Socially Sustainable Sourcing, with Burton

Policy Linked to Socially Sustainable Sourcing, with Burton

We helped to develop policy on engaging civil society, in alignment with Fair Labor Association (FLA) standards

Standards for sustainable wool production

New Social Standards, with a Leading Wool VSS

Landscape-scale Indicators, with ISEAL Alliance

Policy Linked to Socially Sustainable Sourcing, with Burton

We drafted a social module for a leading wool and mohair standard

Metrics to measure sustainability impacts at landscape scale

Landscape-scale Indicators, with ISEAL Alliance

Landscape-scale Indicators, with ISEAL Alliance

Landscape-scale Indicators, with ISEAL Alliance

We contributed to the development of guidance on indicators for landscape-scale initiatives

Living Wages in the U.S.: Living Wage For US

Landscape-scale Indicators, with ISEAL Alliance

Landscape-scale Indicators, with ISEAL Alliance

Heartwood Principal, Jessica Grillo was the co-designer of an early-stage voluntary living wage certification platform for companies in the U.S., which was taken forward by Oxfam America and has since become the first living wage certification in the U.S. - now Living Wage For US

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