Lead for Change Blog

Daybreak

March 21, 2022

A Fairer Future for All Means Gender Equality Now

March 21, 2022

Women farmers make up the backbone of global agriculture. Fairtrade is ensuring they have a path to empowerment. Women have long been the backbone of our planet’s agricultural production. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that women today make up 60 to 80 percent of the farmers present in non-industrialized countries and […]

Natalie Reichert

March 18, 2022

Fair Trade Baldwin Wallace

March 18, 2022

Our goal is to bring awareness to the local and global necessity for fair trade products, engage the greater BW community on education surrounding ethical fair trade items, and provide products across multiple BW departments to start the transition to a fair trade certified university.

Miami Chicken Co

March 11, 2022

CSUN Fair-trade Campaign Presentation Proposal

March 11, 2022

Made a presentation in front of a class informing what fair-trade was. We demonstrated how impactful and beneficial it would be to certify the university as a fair-trade university. Presented the 5 goals we want to accomplish within the semester and what we’ve done so far. Lastly we added a timeline that indicated what months […]

Village Market

March 9, 2022

Minneapolis Area Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

March 7, 2022

The Minneapolis Area Synod of the ELCA is here to support our member churches and their rostered and lay leadership. Together with our member churches, we are here to discern and follow God’s will to nurture, serve, and lift up the people in our congregations, in our communities, in our region, and around the world. […]

Fairtrade America: Minneapolis mural featuring Johnny, a banana farmer

March 7, 2022

Fairtrade America is thrilled to share the story of Johnny Gabriel Navas Aquim, a banana farmer from Ecuador, through the artwork of Reggie LeFlore in collaboration with the Twin Cities Co-op Partners’ (TCCP) Wedge Co-op in Minneapolis! This mural is located at the Wedge Co-op, 2105 Lyndale Ave South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55405. There are a […]

Winter Wellness Event

March 7, 2022

emilypadden

March 2, 2022

Julian Woolard

March 2, 2022

Nokomis Heights Lutheran Church (ELCA)

February 26, 2022

Nokomis Heights celebrates you! If you are black, brown, white, gay, straight, female, male, trans, non-conforming, old, young, big, small, able-bodied, differently-abled, peace-filled, pain-filled, certain, uncertain or searching, we celebrate you. No matter how many moms or dads or divorces or kids or chromosomes you have, no matter how many failures or successes or questions, […]