Lead for Change Blog

Cafe Social Justice – Mass Incarceration

Café Social Justice is an hour-long weekly discussion led by People Who Care team members. Each week, we talk about a different social injustice and serve Fair Trade coffee and tea with baked goods. The purpose of Café SJ is to educate our campus and provide a safe space to talk about difficult issues.

Cafe Social Justice – Fair Trade

Café Social Justice is an hour-long weekly discussion led by People Who Care team members. Each week, we talk about a different social injustice and serve Fair Trade coffee and tea with baked goods. The purpose of Café SJ is to educate our campus and provide a safe space to talk about difficult issues.

Cafe Social Justice – Oxfam America

Café Social Justice is an hour-long weekly discussion led by People Who Care team members. Each week, we talk about a different social injustice and serve Fair Trade coffee and tea with baked goods. The purpose of Café SJ is to educate our campus and provide a safe space to talk about difficult issues.

Volunteer Extravaganza

This is the volunteer recruitment fair for the Spring semester. People Who Care team members handed out three different types of Fair Trade chocolate and hosted a drawing for a free bag of Fair Trade coffee.

Chicago Fair Trade Member Mixer at Lagunitas Brewing Co-THE Basement

Join us for our first member mixer of the year at Lagunitas Chicago THE Basement! You’ll have a chance to enjoy food, mingle and network with other Chicago-area fair trade supporters, learn about ways you can be involved with CFT in 2016. Come meet and hear from CFT’s newest business members including Metropolis Coffee Company, […]

Chicago-area Students Summit – Winter Edition

We’re hosting a second Students Summit, because the first was so successful & we love your enthusiasm and drive to promote fair trade on your campuses! Join with students from area colleges to network, learn about fair trade and anti-sweatshop efforts happening at other schools, and discuss opportunities for local universities to ally and work […]

An Evening for Parents and Students

Parents and students participate in lessons and activities as applied to Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Spanish and Fine Arts. Enjoy Fair Trade hot chocolate following lessons served by the staff of SMA.

St. John’s University Poverty Conference

St. John’s University is holding its 9th Biennial Vincentian Chair of Social Justice Conference, aka the Poverty Conference. This year’s conference will focus on the links between environmental crises and the plight of the world’s poor. St. John’s for Fair Trade will selling Fair Trade goods from HandCrafting Justice and other organizations! See you there!

SAT Fair Trade Bake Sale

We’re holding a bake sale at Berkeley High School for students who take the SAT in late January. You all deserve a nice treat for all your hard work, and what a better way to spend a dollar than on products that will help better the lives of farmers around the world!

Fair Trade Study Night

Loyola HS Teachers will be on hand along with the Fair Trade Club to ensure you have an evening full of insightful studies and delicious fair trade chocolate, hot chocolate, and coffee! Bring your mugs and your books to the upper campus from 6-8pm.

“Human Trafficking Awareness” at the Fond du Lac Public Library on Jan 11, 2016

Recent arrests in Fond du Lac have brought awareness of the monstrous crime of human trafficking and the issues that surround it to our community. A program that will focus on the problem and solutions, “Human Trafficking Awareness” will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Monday, January 11, at the Fond du Lac Public Library. The […]

Intergenerational Chocolate Making

The children will host the adults in making a simple chocolate recipe, which happens to include many fair trade ingredients–Cacao, coconut oil, vanilla–along with honey and salt.

Fair Trade your Finals!

In collaboration with the office of Student Affairs, the Rollins Sustainability Program will hold a ‘Fair Trade your Finals’ event on Reading Day – the day of study between exam days. Fair Trade coffee, decaf, chocolates and home baked goodies like sweet cornbread and macaroons, along with other goodies to help students de-stress and get […]

Fair Trade Study Break

PLNU’s Fair Trade your Finals Event. We’re providing a Fair Trade study break in the Colt History and Political Science Lounge.

Fair Trade Your Finals

We will be sharing Fair Trade conversation, coffee, and chocolate outside the library during USD’s final exam study day. Escape your studies and come out to chat for a bit!

Fair Trade Finals GiveAway!

True Cost Documentary Screening

This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls […]

Homecoming Street Fair

At our homecoming tailgate event, our student group will be selling lattes made with fair trade ingredients and handing out information regarding the importance of fair trade. All proceeds will go to support Students for HOPE.