ABOUT US
Creating a healthy socio-economic ecosystem where everyday life thrives
ABOUT US
The Beautiful Store Foundation contributes to the ecological and environment-friendly changes in our society, supports the alienated and public activities at home and abroad, and promotes the growth of citizenship and the development of a grassroots community through the reuse and circulation of goods.
Mission
Making a beautiful world of sharing and circulation that anyone can join
Vision
World-class NGO with public interest and professionalism
Public interest
We abide by purity, value orientation, and public interest as a non-profit organization
Efficiency
We pursue efficiency in the creation of public values
Professionalism
We try to reach the global level in public interest and professionalism
Philosophy of Our Movement
Spirit of a net knot
We look at the truth of the world from the viewpoint of “relationship”
Spirit of revival
We prolong the life of the world through sharing and circulation
Participation and changes
Your participation will contribute to beautiful changes in the world. We believe that we can make the world beautiful by donating 'an item' as well as doing volunteer work for 'an hour'
Our Work
What The Beautiful Store Foundation does
The Beautiful Store Foundation is a social enterprise that seeks ecological and environment-friendly values through the reuse of goods under the mission of “making a beautiful world of sharing and circulation that anyone can join.” Since the launch of the 1st Charity Shop in 2002, we have opened approximately 100 stores around the nation.In last year, we used about $28 million in profits generated by peoples' donations, volunteering, and purchases for our work that makes the beautiful world and we implemented projects to bring sustainable environmental and social changes home and abroad with about $3 million in sales.
Resource Recirculation Project
Charity Shop
We run Charity shops, which make the essence of The Beautiful Store Foundation. 'Sharing and circulation' is practiced at these stores daily. People donate things that they no longer need to Charity shops, which in turn sell them to those who need them. The sale proceeds of the stores are used to help people in need at home and abroad.
Upcycling
We look for ways to utilize donated items and the “things that are discarded” out of the circulation loop. New concepts and designs are updated for such items to highlight the values of their raw materials. This process gives birth to new products. Consumers can think of a sustainable Earth and establish an eco-lifestyle by purchasing and using upcycled products.
Participatory Culture Project
Volunteering
Approximately 18,000 volunteers participate in the activities of The BeautifulStore Foundation. They take advantage of their individual aptitudes and special abilities to participate in the store’s activities, including supporting a campaign and education and checking upcycled products, and contributing to changes at the community, environment-friendly, and ecological level.
*What are volunteering activities? When you voluntarily participate and help without expecting any rewards, it is a volunteering activity. A volunteering activity offers participants a chance to grow into civic activists and changes the community as well as themselves.
Sharing education
Sharing education helps citizens have first-hand experiences with the values of sharing, circulation, and coexistence and contribute to a sustainable world. Sharing education covers the meanings of sharing, recycling, reuse, sustainable consumption, fair trade, and social enterprise so that young children, elementary school students, adolescents, and practitioners can find the goals and methods of sharing that are fit for them and practice the methods in their lives.
Social contribution
Participants engage in sustainable activities with the community through resource recirculation, cash donations, and volunteering activities of the corporate donors. The BeautifulStore Foundation carries out campaigns and sharing activities based on its 100 stores and Revival Centers around the nation to create a world of sharing and circulation with corporations and organizations.
When you voluntarily participate and help without expecting any rewards, it is a volunteering activity. A volunteering activity offers participants a chance to grow into civic activists and changes the community as well as themselves.
Address Tel FAX Registration NO. | 34, Sogong-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, Rep of KOREA (04630) +82-02-730-0525, +82-02-725-2003 world@bstore.org |
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Copyright (C)Beautiful Store. All rights reserved.
