Our Mission.
GoSustainable was established in 2007 to facilitate trade relationships between small businesses, entrepreneurs, and farmers worldwide.
We work directly with rural, low-income, low-volume farmers, to educate them about sustainable farming practices (with an emphasis on growth of native crops),
and to connect them with hard-to-access world markets, simultaneously expanding their capacity to support themselves and furthering the development of their communities.
Our goals are to:
- Work with farmers that lack the means, education, and/or resources to certify their crops/products as either Organic or Fair Trade.
- Provide training in sustainable farming practices to farmers.
- Educate farmers and consumers about the benefits of growing crops native to the farms' region.
- Enable rural farmers to bring their goods to market by connecting them with infrastructure available in their immediate area and abroad.
- Ensure that farmers receive a fair price for their goods.
- Promote small business and entrepreneurship in the United States and abroad by connecting them with uniquely marketable products.
- Educate consumers about the benefits of purchasing goods grown using sustainable farming practices.
- Build a recognizable brand that represents the values and practices of our Global Farm Certification program.
- Add value to products containing Global Farm Certified Ingredients.
GoSustainable is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. You can read more about our organization at Guidestar.
Who We Are.
Whitney Brim-DeForest
Co-Founder + Executive Director
Whitney spent three years serving as a Sustainable Agriculture and Community Development Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal, where she worked directly with rural farmers as an extension agent for two years, and then spent one year as the Assistant to the Associate Country Director for Agriculture. She has a B.A. in Biology from Brown University.
Brady Brim-DeForest
Co-FounderFollow: 
Brady is a serial entrepreneur and brand strategist. His other philanthropic pursuits include agricultural initiatives such as the OpenSoil Foundation and HopShare, the GreenByte Project,
as well as his work on the cusp of the data rights movement where he sits on the Steering Group of DataPortability, and serves as Secretary of the Open Web Foundation. Read Brady's Blog.
The Board
Brady Brim-DeForest
Whitney Brim-DeForest
Charles Caldi
Roy Cruz
Adonya Ourshalimian
Randall Quinn
Emily Riley
