MATTER'S MISSION
Goods that Matter creates everyday design goods, with extraordinary impact.
We provide a trusted home for eco-conscious customers to purchase the highest quality, eco-friendly, handmade-in-America goods for everyday use. Each Matter product is handmade in the U.S., of eco-friendly materials, & gives back to unique social and environmental causes.
10% of all proceeds flow to causes that impact the health, happiness, and sustainability of our communities both locally and for our neighbors around the world.
We are proud to be the first Benefit Corporation in the state of Louisiana and to have donated $71,158 to date to our partner causes! Goods that Matter works to make the world a better place by creating products and collaborations that matter.
MEET TIPPY
Tippy Tippens is the Chief Eternal Optimist of Goods that Matter and founder of the GOOD Shop. She is a social entrepreneur, designer, and consultant who is passionate about building sustainable and equitable growth; making the objects that we live with, work for us instead of against us; and fighting climate change. She is honored to be in the GOOD 100, named as one of 100 people pushing the world forward and a How I Built This fellow in 2018.
Tippy is available for guest talks and workshops on a variety of topics including social innovation, design, creative entrepreneurs, and social entrepreneurship. Email her at tippy at goodsthatmatter.com for collaborations, consulting, workshops, or guest speaking.
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In September of 2010, she moved from Brooklyn to New Orleans after the BP Oil Spill in order to create BirdProject Soap. Matter got its start on Kickstarter & Tippy is a 2011 alumni of Propeller’s Fellowship & New Ventures Accelerator program. She was inspired to form the company upon developing BirdProject, where she saw the need for socially inspired eco-products that poetically fulfill our basic needs.
Her additional professional experiences have included: teaching Social Political Design at Loyola University, designing faucets for Kohler, freelancing for lighting, furniture, graphic, architectural, and wayfinding firms as well as designing and making home furnishings for over ten years. She holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University.
ABOUT BENEFIT CORPORATIONS
Matter is excited to be the first Benefit Corporation in Business Structure in the state of Louisiana & we're now thrilled to be Certfied-B as of September 2023! To become a B-Corp in legal structure is now available in 36 states. Certification can happen internationally, see more info here & how B-Corps use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. This progressive business structure helps to define & report our positive impacts, reinforce the benefits of a triple bottom line business, attract impact investors, and stand out in a dense marketplace as a company whose basis in business is for social good. Matter is honored to be amongst such an inspiring group of businesses helping to build new, healthy markets & win, win, win collaborations!
MATTER’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS
I am delighted that the following inspiring and brilliant people form Goods that Matter’s Board of Directors: Victoria Adams-Phipps, Jennifer Galvin, & Justin Shiels. So honored to have your insights, support, and appreciate your help in aiding Matter to grow wisely.
MADE IN AMERICA
All Matter products are made in the U.S. of Eco-Friendly Materials. We're proud to be certified by the MIA Project, check out other badge holders here.