Lead for Change Blog

Third Annual Fair Trade Wine Event

November 12, 2014

Three day Fair Trade Wine Sale and Tastings at Ten Thousand Villages Raleigh. Featuring Fair Trade and Organic wines from South America. Tasting on Thursday, November 20, coincides with the Cameron Village Holiday Open House.

Tasty Tuesday, November 18, 2014

November 12, 2014

Ongoing event, First and Third Tuesdays of the month at Ten Thousand Villages Raleigh, 435 Woodburn Avenue, Cameron Village, Raleigh, NC 27605 919-821-1100. Featuring seasonal treats using Fair Trade and local ingredients sponsored by Fair Trade Raleigh Board Members and Ten Thousand Villages Raleigh.

Chocoholic Frolic

November 10, 2014

The Chocoholic Frolic, is a fund raiser for The ARC of Winnebago and Boone County. The ARC, sells tickets to Chocolate Lovers. The ARC has approximately 80 vendors, who hand out Chocolate. We hand out Fair Trade Mini Chocolate from Equal Exchange, that are individually wrapped. (they can be taken home) This is a wonderful, […]

Tees & Tea

November 10, 2014

Fair Trade Club & Hippies for Hope team up to make a relaxing, creative, and cozy night for all. Tie-dye a tee and take it home with you while sipping on fair trade tea. Learn about fair trade and how your purchases makes a difference by empowering farmers from around the world! *This event is […]

Fair & Sustainable Gift Fair

November 8, 2014

Dear Friends, Please come and be inspired by those vendors, many of them local, who are passionate about their beautiful businesses and/or their tireless volunteering efforts. They connect Philadelphia citizens with those far and near by their fairly traded products and/or products created to promote sustainability. Sit and relax while you enjoy our complimentary Fair […]

Fair Trade Fair

November 7, 2014

A holiday sale that includes participating Fair Trade certified vendors.

Local and Fair Trade Dessert Night

November 6, 2014

RSVP to Pine Lake Club’s event on Facebook or my emailing bradelyl@hartwick.edu Celebrate and a free taste of local Oneonta business Liberty Tree Chocolates and Pie in the Sky ice cream.

Holiday Bazaar at Colonial Church

November 5, 2014

November 15 and after church until 1:00 on Sunday, November 16 is our Annual Holiday Bazaar, where local artists display and sell their work, we will be displaying items from Ten Thousand Villages and selling Divine chocolate bars. Included in our display will be tea, jams, Equal Exchange dried fruit, and olive oil. We also […]

Serina Roy VIA

November 4, 2014

Serina Roy, a Fair Trade coffee roaster from Maryland will be coming to campus to speak about the value of fair trade as well as her experience growing a roasting company from small fair trade stores.

10th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Sale

November 2, 2014

Join Hoosier Fair Trade at the Indiana Memorial Union to purchase hand-made gifts from all over the world! Fair trade products from Global Gifts and art from Stone Belt will be available for your holiday shopping needs.

Scary Stories and Fair Trade Chocolate Program

October 31, 2014

Our campaign, in collaboration with Hartwick Residential Life, is having an RA Halloween program. Ware meeting in Hilltop res hall first floor lounge to make fair trade s’mores, melt fair trade chocolate to use for dipping, and to tell spooky stories.

Spooky Ice Creme Social

October 30, 2014

we are hosting an ice creme social to help spread the word that Ben&Jerry’s is Fair Trade and to celebrate the festive holiday!!

Fair Trade Pics with Chocolate

October 30, 2014

It was an event when held during our starting weeks of a new semester!! it was a way for us to introduce Fair Trade not only as a club but as a movement working to support and a voice on campus!!

Connected by Coffee Movie

October 29, 2014

Connected by Coffee MOvie was a combination SAVE student group from Richard Stockton College and the South Jersey Fair TRade Alliance organization. The Fair trade movie had great discussion after the movie.

Go green Galloway showed Green HOrn movie

October 29, 2014

At the Galloway Library in Galloway on October1,2014 we showed the movie GreenHorns about young American farmers working on small farms all over the USA countryside, growing organic, raising sheep and tilling the land and growing and selling vegetables. We served fair trade coffee and had packets of fair trade sugar too! We had over […]

Human Trafficking and Fair Trade

October 25, 2014

Nancy Irizarry, Winnebago County Social Services Director of the Wisconsin Resource Center and Co-chair of the Wisconsin Anti-Human Trafficking consortium and Fond du Lac Fair Trade Towns Committee Member will present a talk on Human Trafficking and the role Fair Trade plays in preventing and rescuing people from slavery and the sex industry. Just Fare […]

Free Continental breakfast to meet Anak Norm, the General Manager of VillageWorks in Cambodia.

October 25, 2014

Just Fare Market invites you to a free continental breakfast and an opportunity to meet Anak Norm, the General Manager of VillageWorks in Cambodia, at the former Gift N’ Gab – next to Just Fare Market Anak will give a power point presentation about the work of over 60 experienced producers in the villages surrounding […]

Fair Trade Fiesta

October 24, 2014

2nd Annual Fair Trade Fiesta Global Hand-Crafted Sales Event! Fri Nov 8 from 5-8 pm & Sat Nov 9 from 10-5. Green Earth Community Room, 4 Market St, Oneonta, Hand-woven textiles, batiked & dyed silk scarves, purses, clothing and home goods, embroidery art, wall hangings, jewelry, holiday ornaments, baskets meditation items and more from Mexico, […]