My Nonprofit Reviews

Nlsloane
Review for International Folk Art Alliance, Santa Fe, NM, USA
My wife and I have been donors for several years as well as volunteers and enthusiastic purchasers of the IFAA market's wares. I have been actively involved in social purposes organisations in the US and in Europe for nearly 20 years. Most all such organisations espouse and strive to provide empowerment for their beneficiaries. The IFAA does this in spades. It connects great crafts people to new markets, provides them with new skills that are relevant to survive and thrive globally and has created various new channels to market that enable these crafts people to earn sums of money that would have seemed impossible beforehand. So the Crafts people get skills, market access and money to support their communities; all this is in their hands. How is that for real empowerment. The IFAA IS REMARKABLE in so many ways. Beyond the benefits for crafts people, there is the joy that consumers in the West have by seeing and buying phenomenal arts and crafts AND living and learning from the artists as hosts and volunteers. As I said, IFAA IS REMARKABLE!