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November 19, 2012Wolfe’s Market
November 19, 2012Family owned and operated specialty grocery store and catering buisiness with gourmet kitchen and bakery since 1917.
Pomona College Coop Store
November 19, 2012Pomona Campus store carrying personal items, groceries and snacks.
Intern with Fair Trade Campaigns – Join the team in January!
November 19, 2012Become part of a team helping provide support for hundreds of Fair Trade advocates across the country! We are looking for two bright, enthusiastic and dedicated college students (or recent graduates) to help create a more dynamic campaign as we move forward. If you have a passion for social justice and sustainability, live in the […]
Post Conference Challenge – Win Free Stuff!!
November 5, 2012Thank you everyone who came to the conference, you brought incredible energy and enthusiasm. For those of you who didn’t have the opportunity to attend, take heart; we will be posting reflections, resources and various documents from the conference in the coming weeks. Meanwhile please participate in our Post Conference Challenge! We want to head out […]
MamaAfrica
October 29, 2012Our Mission is to change the lives of the women in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the future of the children. We take a holistic approach to creating this change by providing healing arts programs, education, and economic opportunity. This fosters self-empowerment, community and sustainability for the women and will ultimately result in generational […]
Quaker Friends
October 25, 2012About the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) The Religious Society of Friends was founded by George Fox and others amid the religious turbulence of the seventeenth-century England, and swiftly spread to the New World. (The prominent Friend, William Penn, founded Pennsylvania.) Early Friends conceived the Society as a revival of first-century Christianity. It has always […]
Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship
October 25, 2012Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) Jennifer Peifer and pastor Isaac Villegas confer after worship. Thomas Lehman photo. Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship (CHMF) evolved from a Chapel Hill-Durham small group within the Raleigh Mennonite Church, augmented by other Mennonites living in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. The group of about 20 […]
Southern Season
October 24, 2012Southern Season is the premiere destination for specialty foods and products. Since its creation in 1975, Southern Season has been known for the breadth and quality of its gourmet foods, wines, housewares, and cookware. A food lover’s paradise with exciting and innovative products from vendors local to international, Southern Season offers over 50,000 items sold […]
Red Bicycle Coffee and Cafe
October 24, 2012Cup a Joe
October 24, 2012Great Coffee, Good Vibes, Pass It On! Our lead sponsor for the Fair Trade Campaigns Conference is Green Mountain Coffee!
October 23, 2012This Fair Trade Month, Green Mountain Coffee continues its creative and groundbreaking support of the Fair Trade movement. From Live Facebook Concerts to Consumer Sweepstakes to providing the key funding necessary to hold our 2nd National Conference, they are ensuring that advocates and consumers have more and more opportunity to drive the success of Fair […]
Joe Van Gogh
October 23, 2012At Joe Van Gogh, roasting, brewing, and sharing coffee is our passion. We consider ourselves artisans, as coffee roasters and baristas who are true to their craft and enthusiastic about sharing it. We take the ultimate pride in our finished product. Whether we source our coffees direct with the farms or in consultation with a […]
Hannah Dodoo from Global Mama’s is On Tour!
October 20, 2012Today we kicked off our Fall 2012 Artisan Tour with a visit to Bloomington, Indiana. Over the next week or so we will travel to four states and the District of Columbia as part of our tour with seamstress and businesswoman Hannah Dodoo. Hannah is a founding member of Global Mamas, a Fair Trade cooperative […]
Starbucks
October 18, 2012Supporting Farmers and Their Communities Responsibly-grown, ethically-traded coffee means working with farmers to produce coffee in ways that help provide benefits to their business, their communities and the environment. Our long-term success is linked to the success of the thousands of farmers who grow our coffee. That’s why we invest in loan programs for coffee-growing […]