Prosperity Candle Blog

“My Mom helped me learn to view the entire world as an extended family.”

April 12, 2012

What role has your Mom played in your life? What a hard question to answer. Moms change everything. What your Mom does or doesn’t do impacts almost everything in your...

Prosperity Candle meets Cheryl Mills in Haiti

April 12, 2012

The Prosperity Candle team is in Haiti this week preparing for our next candle-making adventure! With the support of some wonderful partners, we will be creating a new candle-making workshop...

Prosperity Candle Noted in Exhale Magazine Article on Hybrid Businesses

March 29, 2012

Thank you to Exhale Magazine for featuring Prosperity Candle in its recent piece about the Pipeline Fund’s expansion into Boston. Click here to read more. In February, Siiri Morley...

Social enterprise – what does that mean?

March 28, 2012

We are often asked this question, and the answer we usually give is a business created to do good in the world, to effect positive change, to solve a social...

WGBY’s Connecting Point Features Prosperity Candle for Women’s History Month

March 14, 2012

Thank you to Carrie Saldo of WGBY’s Connecting Point (a PBS affiliate) for her thoughtful story on Prosperity Candle. We are proud to have this feature come out in the...

The Next Time You Give a Gift, You Can Change a Life – Watch Our New Video!

March 05, 2012

We’re so excited to share our new motion graphics video with you in honor of International Women’s Day. As you know, our candles are not just candles, they are vehicles...

7 Ways to Empower Women & Girls (tips from Women of Vision)

March 04, 2012

To follow our “6 Inspiring Ways to Celebrate International Women’s Day“ blog post, we wanted to share a similarly inspiring list of suggestions created by World Vision’s Women of Vision...

Join Wafa’a – & thousands of other women – on the Bridge!

February 23, 2012

We are delighted to be helping promote Women for Women International’s upcoming campaign Join Me on the Bridge on March 8th, International Women’s Day. We could explain why it’s such...

Harvard Business School’s Social Enterprise Conference Chooses Prosperity Candles as Speaker Gifts

February 20, 2012

We’re honored to have the organizers of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Conference choose hand-poured Prosperity Candle tin candles as their speaker gifts for this weekend’s event. It is...

A New Story for Haiti: Prosperity Candle Prepares for Expansion

February 20, 2012

As our plane began its descent into Port-au-Prince, I found myself preparing to be overwhelmed by what we’d see. I braced for the emotional response that was to come from...

Stand with women on March 8th: Join Me on the Bridge

February 18, 2012

We are proud to feature this guest blog by Pam Steel, a Women for Women International supporter & women’s rights advocate in Boston. Women for Women International is a fantastic...

Planning or attending a wedding? Think Prosperity Candle for meaningful gifts, favors, and more

February 17, 2012

A guest blog by Marcie Muehlke, Prosperity Candle fan and associate About three years ago at this time my partner and I were in the throes of wedding planning. That...