Lead for Change Blog

Stac Fair Trade Pop-Up Shop

November 9, 2018

Holliday Pop Up shop with handmade crafts and holiday cards from Haiti

Don’t Be Tricked By Your Treats!

November 8, 2018

Since Halloween attracts many of us to conventionally-processed chocolate treats, we wanted to inform our campus about the importance of supporting Fair Trade chocolate companies. In the foyer of our campus dining room, we set up a table that had a trifold poster board (to show how chocolate is made, conventional vs fair trade cocoa […]

Green Up’s Fair Trade Coffee Hour

November 8, 2018

Come enjoy fair trade coffee with the leaders of Green Up!

Green Up’s Fuel Up for Finals

November 8, 2018

Come enjoy some fair trade goodies and learn more about fair trade while de-stressing before final exams!

Green Up’s Fair Trade Coffee Hour

November 8, 2018

Come enjoy fair trade coffee with the leaders of Green Up!

Marywood University Fair Trade Sale

November 5, 2018

Fair Trade Sale thru SERRV November 28, 29, 2018 Marywood University 2300 Adams Ave. Scranton, Pa. 18509

Fair Fashion Events

November 1, 2018

Students watched the documentary The True Cost in the Fall and then had discussions with other high school students about it. Then, the following Spring we had a fair fashion day where students could wear shirts inside out to bring awareness to who made their clothing and in what country.

Bulldog Boost Fair Trade Coffee Shop

October 30, 2018

The students created a proposal last school year to start a fair trade coffee shop in our students center. The proposal was approved and since last November, the students have run a fair trade coffee shop that offers coffee, hot cocoa, and fair trade chocolate bars. OPur mascot is a bulldog, so the name Bulldog […]

Fair Trade Christmas Gift Pledge

October 30, 2018

Our student leaders are challenging each other and their peers to pledge to purchase at least 3 gifts for Christmas fairly traded. We will post a large paper pledge and ask students to sign it at lunches in the weeks leading up to the Boutique.

Fair Trade Christmas Boutique

October 30, 2018

Fair Trade Christmas Boutique with three fair trade vendors and our fair trade coffee shop offering products for purchase. We are educating the school community about their purchasing power. We are encouraging them to support artisans around the world and human rights by shopping at the Fair Trade Christmas Boutique. It will be on November […]

Fair Trade Finals

October 30, 2018

We’re hosting a fair trade tea and treats table during Reading Day. This larger event invites students to relax with games, crafts and free massages. We’re the only provider of fair trade tea at the event, so it’s a great way to get lots of recognition and new interest.

Fair Trade Finals Stressbuster

October 29, 2018

What does the Fair Trade label mean? Come learn more about Fair Trade and how UNCW is pursuing a Fair Trade College & University Designation while enjoying some Fair Trade product samples!

Introduction: Fair Trade @ Landmark College – poster fair

October 29, 2018

As part of our marketing chapter. Students will Introduce: Fair Trade @ Landmark College at a Department wide poster fair

Fair Trade Finals

October 26, 2018

Introduce Fair Trade onto campus – with tabling event – Fair Trade Breakfast – at the dining hall on Dec. 5th – starting at breakfast ad extending for the entire day.

Chocolate is Scary

October 23, 2018

This Halloween we are giving out fair trade chocolate and attaching information about how “Chocolate is Scary.” Our chocolate tags include: – Out of desperation, some family-owned cacao farms to illegal child labor and enlist kids from their extended families or communities to work excessively long, hazardous days in the field – to an abusive […]

Fair Trade Finals

October 23, 2018

We are having fair trade finals for 3 days in December. Each day we will be educating the students on a different fair trade certified product including: chocolate, bananas, and coffee.

Fuel up for Finals at Green Mountain College

October 22, 2018

GMC community members are invited to stop by Withey Student Center from 11:30am-1pm on Tuesday, December 18 to pick up some fair trade goodies to help get them through finals.

Fair Trade Club Bake Sale

October 20, 2018

Homemade baked goodies all made from certified fair trade ingredients. A few chocolate or candy products & Hot beverages offered too (tea and cocoa)-All Fair Trade Certified We will also be taking orders for our homemade mason jars(chocolate chip cookies or brownies) for the holiday season. Price will be $10 A portion of the proceeds […]