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Fair Trade Penncrest High School

Penncrest High School became America’s first Public Fair Trade High School in December of 2011. The school continues to host educational events and fundraisers as part of Penncrest’s commitment to promote the social, environmental and economic benefits associated with selling and using Fair Trade items and products.

Fair Trade Penn State Brandywine

Fair Trade Neumann University

Media Elementary School

We have been a Fair Trade school for a year now! We are the public elementary school of the nation’s first Fair Trade Town and we are happy to continue promoting Fair Trade. We believe a more just, peaceful and sustainable world is possible and that Fair Trade is a great way to make it […]

Fair Trade Manhattan College

Fair Trade Magnificat High School

Fair Trade Loyola University Chicago

Loyola Marymount University

LMU became a Fair Trade University in February 2014. We benefit from our location in Los Angeles, a dynamic city that brings into sharp focus the issues of our time and provides an ideal context for study, research, creative work, and active engagement. Our Mission Statement is: The encouragement of learning; The education of the […]

Loyola Catholic School Fair Trade

Loras College

Loras College was the first college in Iowa, the first Catholic College in the Midwest and the fourth Catholic College in the nation to sign a Fair Trade resolution. Loras College signed a resolution in May 2012, designating it as a Fair Trade College. It was the last stage of an application process governed by […]

Fair Trade John Carroll University

Fair Trade at Indiana University

Fair Trade at Indiana University is a team of business-minded and creative individuals who want Indiana University to qualify as a Fair Trade University. Bloomington, IN was the first Fair Trade town in Indiana, so we hope to continue on with the fair trade mission. We also encourage other ethical purchasing habits on campus such […]

Holy Names University Fair Trade Campaign

HNU students in “Politics & History” and “ISAC” courses are leading our school’s Fair Trade campaign to support worker empowerment, environmental sustainability, and ethical business practices through-out the world.

Fair Trade Gustavus Adolphus College

Fair Trade Fordham University

Students for Fair Trade (SFT) is the official fair trade club at Rose Hill. Members of SFT work closely with a Gabelli School of Business program that runs a small business that sells fair trade products to the greater Fordham and New York communities. SFT’s goals are twofold: to continue to grant western market access […]

Emma Willard School

Emma Willard became America’s first Fair Trade High School in November of 2010. As a Fair Trade institution, Emma Willard lives its core values of meaningful choice, community and relationships, ethical decision-making, and women’s perspectives by working with its contracted food services and school store to implement and maintain Fair Trade options in the school’s […]

Fair Trade DePaul University

Welcome! The DePaul Fair Trade Committee was formed in 2012 when a group of dedicated students worked with Chicago Fair Trade to make DePaul the first Fair Trade University in Chicago. Since then, the committee aims to increase awareness about the atrocities of the current system of trade among college students and community members. We […]

Community School Cutthroats for Fair Trade

Founded in 2012, Community School Fair Trade Club strives to promote the movement in the school and the community through fun events.