Lead for Change Blog

Fair Trade at Indiana University

Fair Trade at Indiana University is a team of business-minded and creative individuals who want Indiana University to qualify as a Fair Trade University. Bloomington, IN was the first Fair Trade town in Indiana, so we hope to continue on with the fair trade mission. We also encourage other ethical purchasing habits on campus such […]

Holy Names University Fair Trade Campaign

HNU students in “Politics & History” and “ISAC” courses are leading our school’s Fair Trade campaign to support worker empowerment, environmental sustainability, and ethical business practices through-out the world.

Fair Trade Gustavus Adolphus College

Fair Trade Fordham University

Students for Fair Trade (SFT) is the official fair trade club at Rose Hill. Members of SFT work closely with a Gabelli School of Business program that runs a small business that sells fair trade products to the greater Fordham and New York communities. SFT’s goals are twofold: to continue to grant western market access […]

Emma Willard School

Emma Willard became America’s first Fair Trade High School in November of 2010. As a Fair Trade institution, Emma Willard lives its core values of meaningful choice, community and relationships, ethical decision-making, and women’s perspectives by working with its contracted food services and school store to implement and maintain Fair Trade options in the school’s […]

Fair Trade DePaul University

Welcome! The DePaul Fair Trade Committee was formed in 2012 when a group of dedicated students worked with Chicago Fair Trade to make DePaul the first Fair Trade University in Chicago. Since then, the committee aims to increase awareness about the atrocities of the current system of trade among college students and community members. We […]

Community School Cutthroats for Fair Trade

Founded in 2012, Community School Fair Trade Club strives to promote the movement in the school and the community through fun events.

Fair Trade Colorado State University

We are the CSU Rams, and we make our home up here in beautiful Fort Collins, CO. We have a small but dedicated campaign working towards getting the word out there and available to those in our community.

Colby-Sawyer College Fair Trade

Fair Trade Carroll College

California Lutheran University

Fair Trade Cabrini College

Berea College’s Fair Trade University Initiative

Solidifying our dedication to Fair Trade products and global justice. Berea College’s campaign is student-initiated and ran through People Who Care, a student-managed social justice and human rights organization, with the assistance of the full-time staff at the Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service (CELTS).

Fair Trade Assumption College

Winter Park, Florida

One of the finest cities in the United States, Winter Park, Fla., is considered by many to be the premier urban village in the sunshine state. With its rich heritage, strong sense of community, vast parks system, diverse economic base, and beautiful chain of lakes, the city provides a high quality of life to both […]

Taos, New Mexico

In February 2008, town council members in Taos, New Mexico passed a resolution and enacted stringent guidelines for the coveted Fair Trade Towns designation. Taos is the first Fair Trade Town in New Mexico, the first in the Western United States, and the firth nationally.

Santa Rosa, California

Here in Santa Rosa we believe that we can always improve relationships between ourselves, farmers and producers. It’s not just about consumption. It’s about how we think about ourselves in relation to farmers, producers, artisans. As one grain of sand helps build a beach, so a purchase helps improve the quality of life of a […]

San Ramon, California