Lead for Change Blog News
Fair Trade Your Everyday
April 18, 2013Here are some quick to pamper yourself the Fair Trade way, or easily incorporate Fair Trade into your weekend plans! Spa Day or Night Every woman deserves a spa treatment. Fair Trade is a perfect time to do so. Why not treat yourself and friends to a facial, manicure/pedicure and include aromatherapy products? Here […]
We're on tour with a Fair Trade Coffee Farmer & Artisan!
April 18, 2013We’re on tour with Miguel Mateo, Fair Trade Coffee Farmer, and Gloria Chonay, Fair Trade Basket Weaver, b6th from Guatemala. We’ll be visiting Fair Trade Campaigns along the Eastern seaboard giving the0 a chance to meet the beneficiaries of Fair Trade first-hand. We want everyone who advocates and purchases Fair Trade to meet these amazing […]
Fair Trade Your Finals – Host a Fair Trade Study Break!
March 21, 2013Tell about Your Plans and get Rewarded Here’s your chance to get hooked up with some great, free materials for that final Fair Trade Event of the year! A number of generous donations have allowed us to support campaigns hosting a Fair Trade Study Break. The first 18 campaigns to post a comment to this blog […]
Millennium Develpment Goals Webinar & World Fair Trade Day
March 20, 2013Join 18 countries in collecting signatures from elected officials for World Fair Trade Day! The Millennium Development Goals come to an end in 2015. Leaders of the world will come together at the next United Nations gathering in New York on September 23, 2013 to work on a new global development framework after 2015. The […]
Kickin’ it Series – Live Video Chats with Fair Trade Farmer and Artisan
March 19, 2013This April & May we’re going on tour with Miguel Mateo, Fair Trade Coffee Farmer, and Gloria Chonay, Fair Trade Basket Weaver, from Guatemala. We’ll be visiting Fair Trade Campaigns along the Eastern seaboard giving their campaigns a chance to meet the beneficiaries of Fair Trade first-hand. We want everyone who advocates and purchases Fair […]
Assumption College: Campaign Spotlight
March 15, 2013by: Colleen Putzel (originally in Le Provocateur as “AC Approved as Fair Trade College”) Over the past three years Assumption College has worked tirelessly to become approved as a Fair Trade College. On Tuesday, February 12th, Assumption officially celebrated this achievement joining the ranks of other Fair Trade Colleges and Universities around the world. Students, faculty […]
Campaign Spotlight – Chapel Hill, North Carolina
March 7, 2013FIRST FAIR TRADE TOWN IN N.C. In the summer of 2012 Nadia took her students on a class visit to Ten Thousand Villages to learn about how Fair Trade can be a solution to exploitive labor practices in the fashion industry. The store manager Keilayn Skutvik mentioned the Fair Trade Towns movement as a possible […]
Webinar: Fair Trade Towns & the UN’s Millennium Development Goals
February 20, 2013The United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) are coming to an end in 2015 – what lies ahead? The International Fair Trade Towns community will be advocating for Fair Trade to be incorporated into a Post-MDG framework as a way to reform international trade to benefit farmers and workers around the world. Join Fair […]
Meet the new Fair Trade Campaigns Interns – Kelly and Ellen!
February 6, 2013We’re pleased to welcome two new interns, Kelly Jackson and Ellen Watlington, to the Fair Trade Campaigns team! Kelly and Ellen have been working over the last couple weeks to perform outreach and support for our campaign organizers and develop some exciting content for the Fair Trade Towns USA and Fair Trade Colleges and Universities […]
The Toolkit (New Resource) is Here!
January 18, 2013Over the last few months Fair Trade Colleges and Universities has been creating a Toolkit for organizers and advocates. The Toolkit serves to link together various resources and provides a thorough overview of what it means to organize a Fair Trade Campaign on campus. Now that it’s here, open it up, explore, learn and share! Within the Toolkit […]
Get Ready for Valentine’s Day!
January 14, 2013If you are looking for a great opportunity to host your first Fair Trade event of the year then Valentine’s Day may be your best bet. Now is the perfect time to begin reaching out and planning your Fair Trade Valentine’s Day Celebrations. Below we have compiled a number of ideas and resources to help […]
Hand in Hand Soap Giveaway!
January 7, 2013We’re giving away 5 bars of sustainable, Fair Trade suds with our friends from Hand in Hand soap! Check out this great company and enter your chance to win at the bottom of this page. The bath & body brand, Hand in Hand Soap was founded by couple, Bill Glaab & Courtney Apple. During research, […]
Giveaway: Hand in Hand Soap
January 7, 2013We’re giving away 5 bars of sustainable, Fair Trade suds with our friends from Hand in Hand soap! Check out this great company and enter your chance to win at the bottom of this page. The bath & body brand, Hand in Hand Soap was founded by couple, Bill Glaab & Courtney Apple. During research, […]
International Fair Trade Towns Conference – A Global Affair
December 13, 2012By: Courtney Lang, National Organizer – Fair Trade Towns USA It’s hard to know when you’re in Boston, MA or Teaneck, NJ that there are tens of thousands of Fair Trade Town organizers across the globe. As of December 2012, there are 1,227 declared Fair Trade Towns in 24 countries and 6 continents. Imagine if […]
Who is Fair for Life?
December 12, 2012How many of you have enjoyed a delicious Equal Exchange chocolate bar, or woken up to a refreshing Guiyaki Yerba Mate? Have you noticed the Fair for Life label presented to you on their packaging? Through this guest blog post, Fair Trade Towns hopes to clarify who Fair for Life is and the key features […]
America Goes Bananas for Fair Trade!
December 10, 2012Did you know that bananas are the number one selling item in almost ALL grocery stores? It’s true! That’s why it is important that you ask for Fair Trade bananas. It is also why we’ve been rallying Fair Trade Town, University and College campaigns across the country to Go Bananas for Fair Trade since October! […]
Fair Trade Your Holidays!
November 30, 2012Looking for a simple way to help your community or campus Fair Trade their holiday? Well, we decided to help compile some helpful resources – check it out! Fair Trade organizations have been hard at work the last few weeks getting ready for the holiday season! These groups have compiled a list of Fair […]
Banana Spotlight: Equal Exchange Bananas
November 26, 2012Go Bananas for Fair Trade is a campaign created by Fair Trade Towns USA with the aim of building awareness and demand for Fair Trade bananas all across the country. We kicked the campaign off in October (Fair Trade Month) with over 30 campaigns hosting banana-themed events. We’re thrilled with this success and will continue […]