Discovery Center

Giving Marketplace

Holiday Gifts That Give Back

Friday, December 5, 2025 - Saturday, December 6, 2025

Don’t miss the holiday-giving event of the season! At the Discovery Center’s annual Giving Marketplace, you can purchase holiday gifts that give back while shopping for everyone on your list.

Find unique gifts from over 30 vendors with proceeds supporting incredible organizations and causes. Enjoy family-friendly holiday activities and art-making, and discover ways to take action on issues you care about.

Food & Drink

Ajiri Tea Company

Ajiri sources award-winning tea from Kenya, employs women in the region to handcraft the packaging, and then sends 100% of the profits back to support orphan education.

Amrita Seattle vendor table to brightly colored wares

Gifts

Amrita-Seattle

Amrita serves at-risk vulnerable children and youth globally in the U.S., India, and Nepal. We provide nutrition, education, healthcare, and holistic support.

Art & Gifts

Ancestral Sisterhood

Creating an ecosystem to support Indigenous community members in thriving & healing through traditional ancestral knowledge, kinship, and art.

Accessories & Apparel

Awamaki

Awamaki is a community-driven social enterprise working in deep collaboration with Quechua artisans. Together we create grassroots programs to support and grow women- led cooperatives through heritage textiles, market access, and sustainable tourism. 

notecard with a dove and olive branch image on the cover

Gifts

BaMatooke Made

BaMatooke Made creates biodegradable greeting cards to promote sustainable and lasting change in the lives of women and vulnerable children in Uganda. Each purchase funds small businesses and academic scholarships. 

Large fish art print on a wall in a stone colored room.

Art

Baya Haus

Baya Haus celebrates traditional folk art by learning directly from the communities that keep these techniques alive and sharing their stories through beautifully crafted artwork. With every print sold, we provide 10 meals to children in underprivileged communities.

Apparel

Ekadesma

Ekadesma is a Seattle- and Kathmandu-based slow fashion brand empowering women and uplifting artisan communities through timeless, handcrafted designs that celebrate heritage, sustainability, and conscious living.

Books & Gifts

Friends of the Seattle Public Library

Friends of The Seattle Public Library (FOSPL) have been supporting The Seattle Public Library since 1941. Through programs, advocacy, and events, we help keep The Library and literacy at the center of the Seattle community.

Gifts & Apparel

Friends of WPC Nepal

Friends of Women’s Protection Center (WPC) Nepal seeks to prevent human trafficking as well as protect and empower at-risk women and children through awareness programs, education scholarships, job training, and the Safe Home. 

Gifts

IRC Seattle Economic Empowerment Program

The IRC in Seattle’s Economic Empowerment Program helps refugee and immigrant communities rebuild their lives in the U.S. through workforce development, financial education, and small business support. Our programs focus on rapidly establishing financial stability and promoting long-term economic mobility. We take a whole-family approach, offering specialized services for women and youth to ensure all members—including the next generation—can access meaningful economic opportunities.

Gifts

Kidz Positive

Kidz Positive is an income generation project that provides a means for mothers and caregivers of children affected by HIV/AIDS to make a living. Kidz Positive was established when it was noticed that mothers being treated in the hospital were struggling to provide for their families. Each week, our bead workers are given the raw materials they need to produce beadwork from home.

Image: Sean Wilson.

Jewlery

kimber elements

kimber elements uses collaborative jewelry design to conserve and protect wildlife through sustainable business and educational opportunities. We collaborate with 30 Maasai women in rural Kenya to design beaded jewelry pieces to celebrate and preserve their traditional handicraft. Their work is complemented by recycled brass jewelry, hand-forged by metalsmiths from impoverished communities in Nairobi. A portion of our sales supports a scholarship program for young women to study wildlife conservation in Kenya.

Image: Jessica Garcia

Gifts & Apparel

Mexican Handmade Collective

Mexican Handmade Collective represents the great culture and richness of Mexico. Each piece infuses Mexican traditions, colors, and customs through its art, and handcrafted jewelry, clothing, and home decor offerings. 

Books

Mountaineers Books

Mountaineers Books is the preeminent nonprofit publisher based in Seattle, WA. As a mission-focused 501C-3 book purchases and donations allow us to continue to publish award-winning outdoor recreation, lifestyle, and conservation books while championing emerging authors.

Candles

Noir Lux Candle Bar

Noir Lux Candle Co. is a lifestyle and self-care brand offering hand-poured candles, fragrance experiences, and curated gifts that inspire relaxation, joy, and community connection. Noir Lux also operates a candles-for-a-cause program benefiting non-profits.

Image: Anchor Creative and Vivian Hsu Photography

Gold necklaces on a back background

Ornaments & Jewelry

Otra Vez

Nature-inspired jewelry and home decor handmade in Seattle from a mix of vintage, sustainable, and new materials. Inspiring and empowering women artisans through flexible work-at-home employment, language, and life skills. 10% of our net proceeds directly support women survivors of sex trafficking, war, and conflict, providing them with social and economic skills to transform their own lives.

Art

Pratt Fine Arts Center

Pratt Fine Arts Center provides access to the transformative power of artistic expression through an inclusive community, culture of learning, and specially equipped studios. Pratt offers art classes and studio access for all ages, all skill levels, and all abilities in glass; metal, stone and wood sculpture; jewelry and metalsmithing; painting; drawing; printmaking; and mixed media.

Image: Tawfiq Abdulaziz/ Original Studios

Accessories & Apparel

Radical Grandma Collective

Radical Grandma Collective strengthens grassroots movements led by communities on the frontlines of environmental justice. We join women-led resistance, support local enterprises, and connect global allies to the struggle. Born from a village reclaiming power through weaving, we stand with human rights defenders across Thailand—and with everyone restoring what the extractive industry tried to take from them.

Gifts & Apparel

Refugee Artisan Initiative

Refugee Artisan Initiative (RAI) is a non-profit that partners with refugee and immigrant women as they work to achieve economic stability.

Gifts

Seattle World School Scholarship and Mentoring Program

Helping immigrant and refugee students attend and succeed in college or vocational training after high school. We provide funds and ongoing 1:1 mentoring for each student.

Image: Nancy Peterfreund

Ornaments & Gifts

Snow Leopard Trust

Snow Leopard Trust works to understand and protect the endangered snow leopard, in partnership with local communities. You can support their work by making a symbolic adoption or buying handmade wool ornaments and gifts crafted by women living in the snow leopard range. 

Candles

Spír Candle Co.

We exclusively employ young men with periods of incarceration to make our candles — providing jobs, mentorship, and a space to breathe so they can have the best opportunity to become who they aspire to be.  

Food

The Pastry Project

The Pastry Project is a women-owned social enterprise that provides an annual free baking and pastry training program for individuals with barriers to employment. We fund this program by selling our own pastry products, like pastry kits, soft serve, and items from our soon-to-be-open bakery in Pioneer Square!

Gifts

Think Humanity

Think Humanity is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering refugees and underdeveloped communities in Africa. Nearly 100 percent of every dollar donated advances access to healthcare, clean water, education, and socioeconomic development.

Gifts

Tizana Mexicana

Tizana Mexicana bridges the gap between Mexican artisans and consumers by offering a unique marketplace of authentic, handcrafted products. We create an ecosystem that fosters cultural preservation, economic development, and inclusivity.

Gifts

MADE51 | USA for UNHCR

USA for UNHCR is a non-profit organization that partners with the UN Refugee Agency to protect and assist refugees fleeing violence, conflict, and persecution by raising awareness, mobilizing resources, and providing humanitarian aid such as food, shelter, and education.

Food & Gifts

Ventures

Ventures is a Seattle-based nonprofit that strengthens well-being and economic mobility through business education, incubation and capital for individuals from underrepresented communities. We provide access to business training, capital, coaching, and hands-on learning opportunities for entrepreneurs. We serve those in our community for whom traditional business development services are out of reach, with a focus on women, people of color, immigrants, and individuals with low income.

wine bottle on a table

Drinks

Water 1st

Water1st builds community-scale projects consisting of household-level piped water systems and hygienic toilets, which end the walk for water for women and girls, improve health, and create opportunities for education and employment. 

Water from Wine is a nonprofit organization that operates a vineyard and winery in Washington state and donates revenue to organizations working to ensure that communities around the world have consistent access to clean water. 

Gifts

Wing Luke Museum Marketplace

The Wing Luke Museum is a one-of-a-kind, community-based museum highlighting the history, cultures, and art of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Our Marketplace is more than a gift shop and bookstore, our store sources from over 100 small businesses as part of our commitment to being a community-based organization.


Image courtesy of Wing Luke Museum, Ronn Meriales.

Apparel

Zuri

Zuri is an ethical fashion brand dedicated to developing textiles across the continent and partnering with ethical manufacturers in Kenya. Their mission is to provide versatile clothing options for women while fostering job creation for a sustainable economic future in East Africa.  

Back by popular demand, Giving Marketplace will host local artists for free, live art-making on both days of the event. All art-making will be provided to guests on a first-come-first-served basis, so arrive early to get your place in the queue.

People & Pet Portraits: Cathy Wu draws custom greyscale pen and ink portraits of people and their pets.

Artist, Michelle Lassaline's "You as an animal" portraits, featuring two bears

You as an Animal: Artist and illustrator Michelle Lassaline paints custom watercolor portraits of people as any animal they choose. 

Live Doodle Booth: Seattle-based artist Soupermandoo creates photo-strip style portraits as you wait.

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