Useful promotional items for customers and employees

The raffle tickets offer instant prizes and support the foundation.Across Switzerland, more than 25,000 people with physical or cognitive disabilities work in sheltered workshops. These workshops produce high-quality products. To better market these products, the nonprofit Sovalore Foundation launched the online platform www.socialstore.ch.Through Socialstore, the foundation gives these institutions the opportunity to sell their products beyond the regional market. At the same time, this creates a large national marketplace that, thanks to its wide range of products, provides interested customers with a good overview of products from social enterprises.Search for and Find GiftsCompanies are frequently faced with the question of what kind of gifts to give their customers and employees. In this context, they are increasingly looking for ways to fulfill their social responsibility as a company and to communicate this to the public in a way that resonates.The online platform serves as the link between providers and potential customers and offers the largest bilingual selection of products from various social institutions throughout Switzerland. Currently, nearly 400 items from 15 social institutions across Switzerland are available. The items are organized by category, such as gift ideas, home & garden, personal care, toys, leisure, school, etc. Individual products can also be personalized upon request—for example, by adding the company name.Raffle Tickets: A Combination of Sustainability and OriginalityAnother way for companies to get involved is through Socialstore’s raffle ticket campaign. In exchange for a donation to the Sovalore Foundation, companies can purchase raffle tickets from Socialstore and give them away to their customers. The tickets include instant prizes and qualify holders to participate in the prize drawing in early 2017. This initiative helps spread the word about Socialstore, and the financial contribution enables the foundation to further expand Socialstore and thereby increase sales of products from sheltered workshops. In turn, thanks to the increased sales, these workshops can employ more people with disabilities and improve their financial self-sufficiency—a classic win-win situation.