Our 2025 Holiday Gift Guide: 8 Great Ideas for Last-Minute Gifts from Disability-Inclusive Businesses
No matter what you celebrate during this period, it’s a time for love, togetherness and, quite often, giving! We decided there’s no better way for us to help inspire some of your gift giving (gifts for yourself absolutely count too!) than featuring organizations and businesses that support, hire, and/or are owned and operated by people with disabilities.
This is not an exhaustive list—though we think you’ll find a thing or two or three to buy—but hopefully it’s some good inspiration for those last-minute gifts you still need to find. From LEGO sets to hot sauce, your holiday shopping can support disability-inclusive businesses.
Kyle’s Cool Beans
Website: kylescoolbeans.com
Kyle is awesome, has a great story, an entrepreneurial spirit, awesome branding and merch—and we hear even better coffee! Kyle’s Cool Beans promises sustainably sourced organic coffee through their partner Amavida Coffee and Trading Company. His mission is to grow the business and achieve employment and disability-forward housing opportunities for people with disabilities.
Crippling Hot Sauce
Website: thecripplingcompany.com
Hot Ones is one of the best person-to-person interview concepts ever created, but their collection of hot sauces is incomplete without anything from Drew. Drew is a young man with cerebral palsy who has a passion for hot sauce, local ingredients, and following his dream. A portion of all proceeds goes directly to kids with disabilities. As a person whose stomach no longer tolerates most hot sauce, you should also check out their merch store, which has some exceptional stuff.
Lark Enterprises
Website: larkenterprises.org/arthousedesignshop
Lark Enterprises is a team of people with diverse abilities who are passionate about designing and selling customized clothing. We offer a wide range of apparel that is not only stylish but also meaningful. Their artists create designs that reflect their unique individual talents and creativity. By purchasing products, you not only support the business but also the individuals behind the designs.
Justin K. Valenti
Website: jkvalenti2014.com
Justin Valenti is an artist, author and advocate who lives in Maryland. He enjoys creating artwork in his home studio and is an artist at the VisAbility Art Lab at VisArts in Rockville, MD. Fluid painting, digital artwork and animation are his specialties, but he also explores other mediums including printmaking and ceramics. In addition to being an artist and advocate, Justin is also an author of five books and the drummer in a band called Neurodiversity.
sammysoap
Website: sammysoap.com
The namesake of Sammysoap is Sammy, the son of co-owner Karen Copeland. Karen was worried that her adult son had already been labeled as unemployable by most employers, so she set out to help him become a small business owner by opening a soap and gift store. The store has grown to offer much more than soaps (though they all seem amazing), including shampoo, moisturizers, aromatherapy items, and more!
Brick It Again
Website: brickitagain.org
Who doesn’t love Legos? Brick It Again is a retail storefront business for the resale of Lego® building blocks. People who work or volunteer at the store are from Day Habilitation, Community Employment Services, Prevocational and Vocational programs, and PROS Behavioral Health programs. We like this store because they also offer classes locally in New York, and Legos by the pound!
Madam Clutterbuckets
Website: madamclutterbuckets.com
Madam Clutterbuckets is a family-owned business that believes that neurodiversity makes our communities stronger and abilities always outweigh disabilities. They are driven by personal experience to spread awareness of the abilities of disabled adults and help decrease the workplace limitation stigma by creating employment opportunities that are built for success. They have a wide range of products—some PG-13, others maybe even R—with spot-on sentiments, and designs are unique, vivid and fun.
The Squeaky Wheel
Website: thesqueakywheel.org
The Squeaky Wheel is a satirical site that basically The Onion meets disability. They challenge common misconceptions about disabled people and criticize imbalances by bringing disability satire for disabled people and by disabled people.
Currently, Squeaky Wheel Media is hosting a fundraiser as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Their hope is that with more funding they can compensate more writers and creatives, hire their first paid staff (all of whom will be disabled, of course), and ensure Squeaky Wheel will be a vocal presence in the disability community for years to come.
In their words: In all sincerity, telling our jokes is a true joy, and we would do it for free. But pretend we didn’t say that, and please donate, because we want to do this forever, things cost money, and disabled people deserve fair and equitable pay.
That’s not all! We were overwhelmed by the response from our members, so below is a list of other business to check out: