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Montana Coffee Traders

Several locations around Flathead Valley specializing in Fair Trade organic coffee.

Third Street Market

A variety of Fair Trade items are available such as cholate bars, unsweetened cocoa, sugars and most importantly Fair Trade bananas. In the Flathead Valley, Third Street Market is currently the only grocer carrying the Fair Trade bananas. It’s important to support small farmers instead of big corporations that spend millions of dollars defeating labeling […]

Nicole Hewitt

DOCUMENTARY: Stand With Me – One Girl’s Dream to End Child Slavery

If life gives you lemons, end child slavery Vivienne Harr, a 10-year-old girl from Fairfax, CA, set up a lemonade stand to fight child slavery. Her first audacious goal was to free 500 children with the proceeds. However, her dream took her much further. Vivienne kept up her lemonade stand for one whole year – […]

Margaret Embree Fisher

Fair Trade Schools Launch in the United States

Fair Trade  Campaigns Announces New Initiative to Empower K – 12 Schools Commit to Ethical Purchasing Fair Trade Campaigns, a national network of Fair Trade advocates in 170 towns and campuses across the United States, is proud to announce its newest campaign – Fair Trade Schools. Mirroring a growing demand for Fair Trade products, Fair […]

Education

We have made a strong effort to regularly show short clips or make announcements about Fair Trade at our weekly assemblies. Fair Trade events have become a regular thing, but I still think that the school as a whole could do a better job of ensuring that Fair Trade products are chosen whenever possible. In […]

Jordan Moore

FAIR TRADE BREAKFAST

Students will host a Fair Trade breakfast in the Crusader Cafe.

This is probably the goal we most successfully fulfill. We sell a variety of fair trade products at least twice a week as well as during special event, and soon, with fair trade bananas in the dining hall. To reach this goal, the most helpful resource was the fair trade colleges and universities office (especially […]

Since last year, we have had two educational events, one regarding the benefits of fair trade for women and another on the benefits of fair trade for communities. Both had the same style- poster with information. We are trying to diversify. This year, we hand out a strip of paper with facts about fair trade […]

Phillips Exeter Academy Fair Trade

Fair Trade Exeter promotes fair trade through educational workshops and the weekly sale of fair trade items to students, faculty and staff. By being aware of their choices, the Exeter community is taking a steep towards a more equitable way of trade.

Common Grounds Coffeehouse

Welcome to Common Grounds Coffeehouse & Cafe’s website: www.cgohio.com! We are located right in the very heart of Bluffton, Ohio. We strive to keep our website current and relevant for you. Please enjoy browsing our page, and we hope that you will come back and visit soon.

Ten Thousand Villages

More than 60 years ago Edna Ruth Byler, a pioneering businesswoman, began selling handcrafted products from Puerto Rico out of the trunk of her car to help eradicate poverty. Today a global network of social entrepreneurs works to empower artisans in developing countries.

The Food Store

The Food Store of Bluffton, OH is your complete natural food store selling organic, whole, packaged, and frozen food as well as organic dairy and soy foods and much more. We also specialize in diets that help you stay fit and healthy. We have vitamins, herbs, and homeopathic supplements available in our store. Organic, whole, […]

Catherine Looby

Christian Aument