Our mission is to make the world better, one scoop at a time as a multigenerational gathering place with sustainability and happiness at the core of all we do. The world is a big place, made smaller, we believe, by the act of sharing a sweet treat with someone you love. Our team works hard to create deliciousness by partnering with local farmers and producers — from jam-makers and beekeepers to strawberry farmers and coffee roasters — to turn the best, freshest, most creative local flavors into truly outstanding ice cream.
And there are lots of other ways we can make the world better! We strive to be the best employer in our industry by providing free health care, paid family leave, sick leave and living wages. These benefits, along with our efforts to provide a sustainable, enjoyable workplace with opportunities to gain new skills, and advance personal as well as professional goals creates a healthier, more robust work force. We are out to prove that an environmentally, and socially responsible business can be profitable and continue to grow!
Our values are not only shown through who we choose as our local farm partners and how we treat our employees, but also in our giving program and social justice work. We give 1% of our sales each year to non-profits in our community and work hard to fight local hunger through food bank giving and our own nonprofit, the Anna Banana Milk Fund. We focus on partnering with women and artists and chefs of color in our collaborations. And we've worked hard to build relationships with and to support the organizations in our community that are doing great equity and social justice work!
Molly Moon's was founded with five values at its core—we continue to live these values everyday in the work that we do, in the people we partner with, in what we give and in the ice cream we make.
Be Smart
Be Generous
Be Homemade
Be Joyful
Be Brave
IN ACTION
- We source 90% of our ingredients from the Pacific Northwest. Buying from farmers in our community keeps dollars in our local economy, and it cuts down on the amount of fossil fuels needed to transport ingredients to our Seattle kitchens. All of our ingredients are either local, organic, or fair trade, and many are two of the three.
- The main ingredient in our ice cream: hormone-free milk and cream, comes from a local farm in Ferndale, WA - Edaleen Dairy. This family-owned farm shares our values and puts sustainability at the forefront of its operations. To minimize their environmental impact, they utilize an anaerobic digester on their farm, turning cow waste into enough electricity to power 500+ homes in the area, enough liquid fertilizer to fertilize the entire farm where they grow most of the herd’s feed, and a sanitary mulch that becomes clean, cozy bedding for the cows.
- We donate over 20,000 gallons of milk to food banks throughout the year.
- We give the greater of 10% of profits or 1% of sales to food banks, equity organizations, women and girl empowerment initiatives each year.
- In 2019, molly moon’s took a big step in the fight for gender and race equity in the workplace and became 100% pay transparent. Research has shown that pay transparency is one of the most effective ways a company can achieve pay equity. Every employee has full visibility into the wages of each member of the team. This visibility gives our mooncrew the knowledge and the power they need to better advocate for themselves in the workplace.
- We provide free health insurance for employees and their dependent children to all employees who work a minimum of 20 hours a week in the summer and 15 hours a week in the winter.
- We offer childcare subsidies to all mooncrew parents and provide $1,000/month for each child under the age of 5 and $4,200/year for each child aged 5-12.
- We have a 401k and matching program to help our mooncrew save for their future.
- We take sustainability very seriously, so everything we use in the shops is 100% compostable: spoons, straws, pint containers & lids … even your milkshake cup!
- We've committed to wind power on our journey to ever greater sustainability. By investing in Green-e Certified renewable energy certificates, our 39,248 kWh of monthly electric consumption is now 39,248 kWh of monthly clean energy.
- We are a founding member business of the Main Street Alliance. Since 2008, Main Street Alliance has countered the political misuse of small businesses by corporate interests and the very wealthy, advocating that unregulated capitalism and bootstrap ideology undermine the needs and values of actual small businesses and our employees. We have worked with MSA to include small business benefits in the Affordable Care Act, increase the minimum wage, enact Paid Safe & Sick Time, Secure Scheduling, and mandatory Paid Family Leave in our state in addition to winning billions of dollars of help for small businesses through pandemic related aid acts in 2020 and 2021.