Brand and Corporate Partnership

Nest is bridging the gap between global craftspeople and responsible brands to build a more human industry.
Programs for Partners

Nest Standards and Seal for Homes and Small Workshops
The Nest Standards for Homes and Small Workshops and Nest Seal of Ethical Handcraft work together to ensure industry-wide transparency and compliance for production taking place beyond the four-walled factory.

Professional Fellowship Program
Your employees can be agents for artisan sector innovation. Nest partners with mission-aligned corporations and foundations to curate meaningful skill-based volunteer programs that match your employees with artisan businesses to address targeted needs.

Nest Sourcing
Enrich your collections with heritage handmade techniques sourced responsibly from around the world. Nest matches craftspeople and designers directly, ensuring transparency, sustainability, and stunning collaborations.
More Ways to Partner With Nest
Consumer Engagement
As consumer demand for transparency and authenticity grows, connect your consumers to the people and places behind their purchases while empowering them to give back.
Though donations at register, limited edition gifts that give back, and educational cause campaigns, Nest can help your consumers directly link their actions to positive change for the global craft sector, the second largest employer of women in emerging economies.
Artisan In-store
Drive store traffic with interactive installations and events centered around craftsmanship and social consciousness. Nest brings the power of meaningful storytelling, beautiful imagery, and a dedicated network of industry leaders to participate in inspirational dialogues. Incorporating Nest’s local community of expert craftspeople and makers, Nest is able to host pop-up craft experiences and workshops such as instore block-printing, embroidery, and tie-dye.
Artisan 101 I Team Training
Navigate the world of artisan sourcing with greater ease and focus on long-term sustainability by implementing Nest training programs for your internal teams. Nest’s comprehensive training program gives your team the tools and knowledge to build stronger supply chains while helping artisan vendors and internal teams work better together. This program is available for sourcing, design, production, and compliance teams.
Nest Consultancy
Leveraging more than a decade of experience in artisan-brand partnership, Nest consults on effective strategies for approaching artisan sourcing with cultural sensitivity and tried-and-true tools for partnership success. Nest advises on process training and staffing, while helping your team set up new frameworks for identification, verification, and integration of handmade production into your supply chain.
Steering Committee
The Nest Steering Committee is a coalition of fashion and home design brands demonstrating extraordinary leadership by working alongside Nest to build the global sector solutions that are bringing unprecedented transparency, social responsibility, and economic development to handworker economy.
Projects
- Co-authored and Launched Nest Standards & Seal
- Developing Globally Applicable Wastewater Solutions
- Creating Working Training Programs for Home-based Producers
- Researching New Technologies to Improve Transparency

Partnership Successes

Looking for new ways to help employees give back, PVH, Swarovski, and Kering Foundation called on Nest
Nest Professional Fellowships

Wanting to gain deeper transparency to the hand embroiders in her supply chain, Mara Hoffman teamed up with Nest
Nest Standards & Seal

Seeking to merge African hand knitting with cool-as-can-be California craftsmanship, The Elder Statesman tapped Nest
Nest Sourcing
Nest Coalition Industry Leaders

Nest Coalition & Founding Steering Committee
