Lead for Change Blog
Fair Trade Finals
November 27, 2018Students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to relax during finals week! We’ll have treats, Fair Trade samples like coffee and chocolates, and activities such as a face mask making booth!
Fair Trade Finals
November 27, 2018Students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to relax during finals week! We’ll have treats, Fair Trade samples like coffee and chocolates, and activities such as a face mask making booth!
Fair Trade Finals
November 26, 2018Fair Trade Finals will be held along with our Fair Trade Sale on November 28th and 29th.
Fair Trade Finals
November 26, 2018Inviting students to not only continue working hard on finals, but to learn more about fair trade and how the university is greatly involved in creating a global difference! We’re providing the opportunity for students to know the difference between fair trade and free trade while giving out free samples of fair-trade products available on-campus.
Fair Trade Christmas Sale
November 20, 2018Ten Thousand Villages will bring all sorts of Fair Trade items. Join us and do your Christmas shopping!
Fair Trade Farmer’s Market Booth
November 13, 2018Booth at the South Pasadena Farmer’s market! We will be making bracelets and passing out pamphlets about Fair Trade and its impact on the Global Community (:
Stac Fair Trade Pop-Up Shop
November 9, 2018Holliday Pop Up shop with handmade crafts and holiday cards from Haiti
Don’t Be Tricked By Your Treats!
November 8, 2018Since 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, 2018Come enjoy fair trade coffee with the leaders of Green Up!
Green Up’s Fuel Up for Finals
November 8, 2018Come 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, 2018Come enjoy fair trade coffee with the leaders of Green Up!
Marywood University Fair Trade Sale
November 5, 2018Fair Trade Sale thru SERRV November 28, 29, 2018 Marywood University 2300 Adams Ave. Scranton, Pa. 18509
Fair Fashion Events
November 1, 2018Students 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, 2018The 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, 2018Our 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, 2018Fair 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, 2018We’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.