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Peace on Fifth
March 26, 2013Peace on Fifth is a local fair trade promoting the end of human trafficking through awareness and local empowerment. A great way to shop your values.
St Thomas Aquinas
March 24, 2013Hope for Madagascar
March 24, 2013
Fair Trade Your Finals – Host a Fair Trade Study Break!
March 21, 2013Tell about Your Plans and get Rewarded Here’s your chance to get hooked up with some great, free materials for that final Fair Trade Event of the year! A number of generous donations have allowed us to support campaigns hosting a Fair Trade Study Break. The first 18 campaigns to post a comment to this blog […]
Millennium Develpment Goals Webinar & World Fair Trade Day
March 20, 2013Join 18 countries in collecting signatures from elected officials for World Fair Trade Day! The Millennium Development Goals come to an end in 2015. Leaders of the world will come together at the next United Nations gathering in New York on September 23, 2013 to work on a new global development framework after 2015. The […]
Kickin’ it Series – Live Video Chats with Fair Trade Farmer and Artisan
March 19, 2013This April & May we’re going on tour with Miguel Mateo, Fair Trade Coffee Farmer, and Gloria Chonay, Fair Trade Basket Weaver, from Guatemala. We’ll be visiting Fair Trade Campaigns along the Eastern seaboard giving their campaigns a chance to meet the beneficiaries of Fair Trade first-hand. We want everyone who advocates and purchases Fair […]
The Paper Source
March 19, 2013Creative and crafty store featuring gift wrap, cards and custom invitations along with a variety of gifts items
KAIROS team @ Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church
March 19, 2013
Assumption College: Campaign Spotlight
March 15, 2013by: Colleen Putzel (originally in Le Provocateur as “AC Approved as Fair Trade College”) Over the past three years Assumption College has worked tirelessly to become approved as a Fair Trade College. On Tuesday, February 12th, Assumption officially celebrated this achievement joining the ranks of other Fair Trade Colleges and Universities around the world. Students, faculty […]
Campaign Spotlight – Chapel Hill, North Carolina
March 7, 2013FIRST FAIR TRADE TOWN IN N.C. In the summer of 2012 Nadia took her students on a class visit to Ten Thousand Villages to learn about how Fair Trade can be a solution to exploitive labor practices in the fashion industry. The store manager Keilayn Skutvik mentioned the Fair Trade Towns movement as a possible […]
Ben & Jerry’s
March 1, 2013Home of the Super Premium all Natural FAIR TRADE Ice cream, Greek Frozen Yogurts, and Sorbet! Bringing Euphoria to the masses, one scoop at a time!!!
Whole Foods Old Town Alexandria
February 27, 2013Founded in 1980 in Austin, Texas, Whole Foods Market (wholefoodsmarket.com, NASDAQ: WFMI), is the leading natural and organic food retailer. As America’s first national certified organic grocer, Whole Foods Market was named “America’s Healthiest Grocery Store” by Health magazine. The company’s motto, “Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet”™ captures its mission to ensure customer satisfaction […]
Living Light Studio
February 21, 2013This lovely artist-owned stained glass and silversmithing gift gallery offers Fair Trade Federation member Far Fetched necklaces, earrings and bracelets. They are also the largest importer of Pottery of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua. A friend has published a book about this community of potters, “The Pottery Tradition of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua.” http://billvolkert.com/index.html.Membership […]
Webinar: Fair Trade Towns & the UN’s Millennium Development Goals
February 20, 2013The United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) are coming to an end in 2015 – what lies ahead? The International Fair Trade Towns community will be advocating for Fair Trade to be incorporated into a Post-MDG framework as a way to reform international trade to benefit farmers and workers around the world. Join Fair […]