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National Delegation to Visit Fair Trade Farms in Dominican Republic
March 23, 2012Fair Trade Towns USA will be sending 12 volunteer organizers on an immersion trip to the Dominican Republic March 28th through April 4th, where they will build the people-to-people ties that make working for Fair Trade so meaningful. This is the second time that Fair Trade Towns USA has collaborated with Global Exchange, a leading […]
RECORDING: Strategic Planning Webinar
March 22, 2012Fair Trade Towns USA produced its first webinar of the year last night on Strategic Planning and the audio/video recording is now available! Follow this link to access the webinar recording Follow this link for a copy of the Power Point Presentation What challenges did the webinar address? The webinar provided organizers with principles […]
Strategic Planning Webinar Wednesday, March 21
March 9, 2012Join Fair Trade Towns USA staff and seasoned organizer Steve Honeyman (In the Public Interest) for the first Fair Trade Towns webinar of the year. Learn how to get your campaign organized and to build a vision and strategy to reach your goals. Fair Trade Towns Strategic Planning Webinar Date: Wednesday, March 21st Time: 5:00 […]
Best in Fair Trade Awards: Which town will you nominate?
March 7, 2012Only 3 weeks are left to nominate organizations for the first inclusive “Best in Fair Trade” Awards for N. America nonprofits & businesses and we think there are some deserving Fair Trade Town campaigns that need your nomination support! The public can nominate (by March 31), and vote, for U.S. & Canada organizations doing exemplary […]
Membership Programs, Small Grants & Fund Raising Events: Financial Stability for your Campaign
March 5, 2012In February Fair Trade Towns USA put together a conference call for organizers so that they could discover how other campaigns are sustainably raising money. We heard from Nancy Jones in Chicago about Membership Programs, Maya Sharp in Pasadena about Fund Raising events and Courtney Lang of Fair Trade Towns USA about the Small Grants […]
Business Spotlight: Numi Tea
February 28, 2012By Guest Blogger: Tisha Winters Numi Organic Tea is a premium tea purveyor that blends organic teas and herbs with only 100% real ingredients, allowing nature to speak for itself. In the earlier years of Numi, not many SKUs were Fair Trade Certified. Fast forward and Numi is the largest brand purchaser of Fair Trade […]
Campaign Spotlight: Houston, Texas
February 21, 2012Guest Blogger: Kendra Penry The Fair Trade Houston campaign launched in July, 2011, led by Houston Rescue and Restore Coalition (HRRC), a local nonprofit dedicated to combating modern day slavery in all its forms. Recognizing that slave labor touches many of the products people use every day, HRRC wanted to give concerned individuals […]
Meet Caitlyn King, Fair Trade Towns USA Intern!
February 16, 2012Caitlyn is the newest addition to the Fair Trade Towns USA national team and she’s been working on outreach to Fair Trade Town campaigns across the US for the past few weeks collecting information so that we can catalyze campaign growth. We’re thankful to have her and hope you enjoy getting to know her like […]
Organizer Spotlight: Ryan Midden, Fair Trade Boston
February 14, 2012Ryan offers pointers for reaching out to your local Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop My name is Ryan Midden and I am the General Manager for Ben & Jerry’s Boston. I am also a proud member of the Fair Trade Boston & Fair Trade Cambridge campaigns. Our coalition declared Boston a Fair Trade Town […]
Fair Trade Consumer Study 2012
February 13, 2012Guest Blogger: Tamara Stenn, Professor at Keene State College According to the United Nations, the US is the world’s largest consumer by far, spending over $10 billion and making up almost 30% of the world’s consumer market in 2009. (Second to the US is Japan weighing in at just 8.5% of world consumption). For Fair […]
February‘s National Conference Call: Fund Raising & Your Campaign
February 10, 2012Local organizers will shed some knowledge about Event Fund Raising, Membership Programs & Small Grants Join the call! Date: Wednesday, February 15th, 2011 Time: 5:00 p.m. PST/8:00 p.m. EST 605-475-6333 Call-in Number: 605-475-6333 Participant Code: 884663# Have you been spending weekend hours volunteering at local events; dropping personal income on promotional materials; organizing events that […]
Valentine’s Day Guides: Fair Trade Pointers from Cupid’s Arrow
February 3, 2012The ‘Pink and white’ holiday sparsely sprinkles the shelves until…BAM, New Years is over and Valentine’s Day hits everyone upside the head. Reminder folks: show some affection or prepare to spend the evening situated with reality, no chocolate or flowers unless you buy it for yourself. Despite loving that special person (or yourself) so much, […]
Campaign Spotlight: Princeton, New Jersey
January 31, 2012Camila Tellez, 14, of Princeton Township started the campaign. She was captivated by the notion that Fair Trade is not a donation. It’s trade, not aid.
Bananas & Fair Trade Procurement
January 26, 2012It’s been just over two months since the delegation of 9 Fair Trade Town USA representatives returned from the lovely city of Malmo, Sweden where we attended the 5th International Fair Trade Towns Conference, and plans have transpired.
The Fair Trade Certified Logo Gets a Makeover
January 18, 2012Fair Trade USA Unveils Redesigned Certification Label By: Fair Trade USA Fair Trade USA has launched the new label for Fair Trade Certified products. See their post below announcing it, and its variations! . Well hello !I’m the newly-redesigned Fair Trade Certified label. Check me out with my more modern rounded edges and shades of […]
A Fair Trade Education
December 18, 2011Penncrest High School in Media, Pennsylvania declared first Public Fair Trade High School in the country
Fair Trade Holiday Gift Guides: Give to Real People in Need Around the World
December 9, 20112011 is quickly coming to a close and the holidays will be here soon. It is a time to be mindful of underprivileged people all over the world and to take action to help these people where possible. One way of doing this is to support Fair Trade. If you choose to do holiday […]
Change Comes from the People: 1070 Fair Trade Towns and Counting
November 26, 2011For eleven years and running, Fair Trade Towns have been the driving force behind consumer citizenship; starting with Garstang, U.K. in 2000, Media, PA in 2006, and leading us into 2012 with over 1,070 towns in 23 countries across 6 continents.