Sample of Clients and Partners
Some of what we have been up to...
IDH
Sustainable Food Lab
Sustainable Food Lab
In an effort to advance on living wage across supply chains, IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative launched the IDH Roadmap on Living Wage. Since 2019, IDH has worked with Heartwood to develop game-changing tools like the Salary Matrix, along with guidance and partnerships, to help hundreds of businesses measure living wage gaps and advance on decent wages for workers.
Sustainable Food Lab
Sustainable Food Lab
Sustainable Food Lab
Sustainable Food Lab (SFL) works with leading food and beverage companies to meaningfully progress toward sustainable agriculture goals. SFL partners with Heartwood to develop action-focused research and feed results into the design and maintenance of programs to improve farmer livelihoods and resiliency.
Grocery Retailers
Sustainable Food Lab
Impact Buying Academy
New procurement legislation; human rights due diligence frameworks; and worker demands have amplified the call for living wages. Retailers likewise recognize the link between living wages, business values and a future bottom line. Heartwood helps dozens of companies assess wage gaps, pilot worker-led verification, and identify next steps.
Impact Buying Academy
Leading Agriculture Standard
Impact Buying Academy
Impact Buying Academy is IDH's auditor training partner on living wage verification. With Heartwood's help, they developed their Salary Matrix verification training program to provide trust in the results and help all stakeholders feel more confident.
Leading Agriculture Standard
Leading Agriculture Standard
Leading Agriculture Standard
A leading certification scheme wanted to better leverage its auditing data to maximize performance measurement, reporting, and continuous improvement. They turned to Heartwood to conduct research and advise on the strategy to help them achieve their goal.
Everland LLC
Leading Agriculture Standard
Leading Agriculture Standard
As a new carbon credit marking company, Everland LLC aimed to provide a product that buyers could trust. They partnered with Heartwood LLC to create an extra level of due diligence to enhance REDD+ project performance and reporting
Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)
Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)
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 the shared vision of thriving, economically stable, rural communities linked to global food and agricultural supply chains. She has written papers and guidance for the LICoP including, "Applying the
Heartwood Principle, Jessica Grillo, serves on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP) to support the shared vision of thriving, economically stable, rural communities linked to global food and agricultural supply chains. She has written papers and guidance for the LICoP including, "Applying the Household Economy Approach to Measure and Address Income Gaps in Agriculture Supply Chains."
Burton
Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)
Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)
Heartwood helped Burton develop policy on engaging civil society, as part of their alignment and membership with the Fair Labor Association (FLA)
Leading Wool VSS
Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP)
Leading Wool VSS
Heartwood Principle Jessica Grillo helped develop a social module for a leading voluntary sustainability standard with a vision for a more human, environmentally responsible and socially just wool supply.
ISEAL Alliance
Living Wage For US
Leading Wool VSS
Heartwood contributed to the development of ISEAL Alliance guidance on indicators for landscape-scale initiatives, with the aim to improve impact measurement and provide greater transparency around claims.
Living Wage For US
Living Wage For US
Living Wage For US
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