Meet our Partners
Arcelia Gallardo, Founder
Mission Chocolate
Brazil
We produce the most awarded chocolate in Brazil using minimal ingredients. We visit farmers to find our cacao and make sure it is grown using regenerative, organic and sustainable practices within an agroforestry system.
Founders, Julio Fernandez Amón and George Soriano
Sibö Chocolate
Costa Rica
Using chocolate making as a vehicle for more ambitious endeavors—such as creating economic opportunity, incentivizing the creation of biological corridors, and being kind to our workers and stakeholders—we are striving to be a model for change in Costa Rica.
Philo Chua, Founder
Theo & Philo
The Philippines
Makers of the Philippines' first bean to bar chocolates using locally sourced cacao, and creating unique flavors inspired by Filipino culture. We source our cacao directly from farmers for transparent pricing and traceability.
Founders, Daniella and Tonathiu
Hecho Chocolate
Mexico
We are Hecho Chocolate, a Mexican team that has been making chocolate from cacao beans since We love connecting the final consumer with the world ofcacao, through excellent chocolate, highlighting the diversity of its flavors and aromas.
Diego Hernandez and Family, Founders
Diego’s Chocolate
Guatemala
Generations of Mayan chocolate-making. One of our missions at Diego’s chocolate is to provide meaningful employment opportunities for our neighbors in Guatemala through chocolate making and packaging.
Founders, Kimberly Addison and Priscilla Addison
57 Chocolate
Ghana
Inspiring the people of Ghana, especially the youth to not be satisfied at merely selling and trading the country’s natural resources or other items in their “natural” state, but to use their minds and creative geniuses to transform these resources by creating and manufacturing made in Ghana products of premium value.
Chris Amendola, Executive Chef/Owner
foraged. - a hyper seasonal eatery
Baltimore
a hyper-seasonal eatery, was founded by chef chris amendola to celebrate the art of foraging and sustainable farming. the restaurant offers a dynamic menu that changes with the seasons, showcasing fresh, high-quality, locally-sourced, and wild ingredients.
Founder, Gillian Goddard
The Alliance of Rural Communities
Trinidad and Tobago
The Alliance of Rural Communities of Trinidad & Tobago(ARC), is a non-profit organisation founded in 2014 and made up of residents of rural and semi-rural communities and their urban allies. Using a holistic strategy ARC supports rural communities throughout the Caribbean to play an expanded role in their national affairs and to move towards solid financial inclusion in regional economics.