Impact and Giving
Impact
Each purchase you make supports artisans dedicated to their craft. When these artisans are able to practice their craft sustainably, they’re also able to pass their knowledge and skills onto the next generation, preserving ancestral traditions and communities for years to come.
A purchase you make today can have a positive impact on traditional Filipino communities for years—and generations—to come.
Giving
BLACK YOUTH PROJECT 100
In collaboration with Raised Pinay, we contributed our support to BYP100, a national member-based organization of 18-35 year old activists and organizers creating freedom and justice for all Black people through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and political education using a Black queer feminist lens.
COVID-19 RELIEF PROVISIONS
Proud to have provided over 1500 lbs. of rice and food donations for Manila families in need during Covid-19.
Cagayan Typhoon Ulyses Relief
Filipino American Artists Directory
Narra Studio provided a month-long sponsorship to connect and make visible the broad community of visual artists of Filipino heritage living and working in and between the United States and the Philippines.
Indigenous Peoples Month, Philippines
The Ifugao Ethnographic Encyclopedia
We donated $250 towards the project of Sir Marlon Martin, Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement, Ifugao, Philippines, and Dr. Stephen Acabado, to achieve the goal of publishing (print and online) an Ifugao ethnographic encyclopedia. Donations cover research, travel to museums where Ifugao ethnographic cultural materials are curated (i.e. Field Museum and Smithsonian Institution), photography, and publication (print and online).
Ifugao Weavers
Provided financial assistance to our partner weavers in Ifugao during Covid-19 in May 2021.
Ilocos Tropical Storm Relief
Provided financial assistance to our partners in Ilocos due to the destructive Tropical Storm Maring, October 2021.
Mangyan Heritage Center
In collaboration with the Mangyan Heritage Center and Lions Clubs International - Calapan, we were able to extend food aid to 50 Mangyan families in Bansud, Oriental Mindoro, after Typhoon Tisoy, 2019.
Panay Bukidnon
Provided financial assistance to our partners in Panay Bukidnon due to the Covid-19 pandemic, August 2021.
Raised Pinay
We were an official sponsor for 2020 Raised Pinay, a community-centered benefit production based on original stories & performances by an all-Pilipina cast.
Roots of Health
We sponsored the complete pre-natal care of a mom through the entirety of her pregnancy! <3
Tboli Weaving House
Provided financial assistance for the construction of a Tboli Weaving House, July 2021.
Tboli Ubo Community Center and Learning Library
We were happy to support the Tboli Ubo Community Center and Learning Library with a Book Donation of 10 books including copies of HABI's books on Philippine weaving and Bahay Kubo, a picture book based on the beloved Filipino children's song, Bahay Kubo. It includes essays by archaeologist Stephen Acabado and poet Kristian Sendon Cordero and illustrations by Aldrin Camacho.