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President’s Alumni Advisory Council

April 9th

Guest Speaker Chrissy Stonebreaker Martinez, chrissy@irtfcleveland.org Chrissy leads the Cleveland Height Fair Trade Town campaign and works for the InterReligious Task Force on Central America. IRTF is an organization in Cleveland that does a lot of programming on Fair Trade, including presentations at local schools. More info here: https://www.irtfcleveland.org/content/fair-trade. 7th grade students and Upper school […]

Fair Trade Tea Table at Greenfest Celebration

During the 3 hour celebration of Greenfest, a week of educational activities around environmental and social issues, we’ll have a fair trade tea table set up. Committee members will be there talking to students about what fair trade is and what we’re doing on campus to promote it. We’re one of a few tables set […]

Front Porch Fair Trade Dinner & Discussion

Come join Net Impact at Front Porch on Wednesday, April 18th at 6pm for a free dinner and discussion about Fair Trade and how it affects our earth and the people on it. There will be trivia, a home-cooked meal featuring Fair Trade ingredients, a raffle (for Guayaki Yerba Mate), and a whole ton of […]

Texas A&M Farmers Market Presented By Chartwells

It is an annual event that unites farmers from local communities outside of Sbisa Dining Hall at the end of March. Local vendors bring their produce and products for purchase and to test the taste. Pepsi, our general campus vendor, will provide Fair Trade Certified drinks like 1893 Cola and others.

Fair Trade Awareness Week

We will have a table on our campus mall all week that we will use to give away our fair trade week stickers, sell shirts, and help educate our campus on fair trade.

Fair Trade Awareness Week: Wear Justice

We are hosting a fair trade clothing event with the motto donate, swap, buy. We will have many local and well known sustainable clothing companies as vendors selling their sustainable clothing. We will also have food and drinks at the event and are hoping to have students from every university in San Diego as well […]

Fair Trade Awareness Week: Sustainable Fashion Show

We will be hosting a student fashion show that will give students the opportunity to model clothes that were sustainably made or purchased second hand from a thrift store. We encourage students to be creative in how they express themselves and hope to use this event to create more awareness on fair trade clothing on […]

Fair Trade Awareness Week: The True Cost

We will be showing the documentary, The True Cost, which is a documentary that shows many negative effects that our fashion and clothing industry have on the environment and the people who manufacture our clothing. We will also have free food at the event, so come out to get some food and learn more about […]

Fair Trade Market

Shop from local fair trade vendors, learn about sustainability, and meet some fair traders in the area! Vendors include: Maven Made, The Ethical Olive, Love This, and many more!

27th Annual Walkathon

The staff and students of St. Martin of Tours Academy have the opportunity to participate in a Walkathon to raise funds for something that directly benefits our school and student’s education. From our Walkathon last year we updated the school’s sound system & finished paying for the rubberized flooring on the primary playground This year, […]

Fair Trade Finals – De-Stress Fest

Join UCI Hospitality & Dining, the Cross-Cultural Center, and UCI Student Wellness and Health Promotion on March 19th and 20th for De-Stress Fest. We’ll have fun activities and giveaways for all students.

Fair Trade Finals – De-Stress Fest

Join UCI Hospitality & Dining, the Cross-Cultural Center, and UCI Student Wellness and Health Promotion on March 19th and 20th for De-Stress Fest. We’ll have fun activities and giveaways for all students.

Fair Trade Community Shopping Night

The UW-Fond du Lac Fair Trade University Committee and Multicultural Club joined efforts in a Fair Trade Shopping Night event at our local Fair Trade Market. Students volunteered at the store to serve chocolate, tea and cookies samples and to help educate and bring awareness to the many products offered for sale during the evening […]

Fair Trade Valentine’s Bake Sale

UW-Fond du Lac Students held a Fair Trade Bake Sale and handed out sample of Fair Trade Chocolates and Coffee. Students, staff and faculty were asked to help decorate a Valentine postcard to mail to Fair Trade Farmers.

Valentine’s Day Card-Writing Event

Writing Valetine’s Day Cards for 3 organizations in Ecuador, Ghana and the Philippines. Also handing out Fair Trade chocolate and teaching people about Fair Trade flowers and candy.

Fair Trade Chocolate Pop Up Shop

Fair Trade Farmer Valentine Workshop

On February 14, many of us take time to show a little extra love to the special people in our lives. This year, we invite you to share the love with the farmers, workers and artisans behind your favorite Valentine’s Day gifts. Give Fair Trade flowers, chocolate and greeting cards (find discounts from our partners […]