Lead for Change Blog
Late Night Snack- Results and Recap!
November 4, 2013In the end, over 3,300 people from dozens of campaigns across the US took part in the Late Night Snack Photo Contest, making it our most successful national event to date! If you have time, please take a journey by searching for #FTSnack through Twitter and Instagram to see some of the incredible and creative ways […]
Case Study: Engage Your Town
June 20, 2013Case Study of how La Mesa, CA accomplished their third goal, Engage Your Town, and their tips for other campaigns. Nancy Ryan La Mesa, CA What was your goal when tasked with this criteria? Our goal was to reach out to organizations and faith based communities within our city with the overall purpose of […]
Teaneck, NJ FT Town #21 Puts Jersey Back on Top!
October 22, 2010By Guest Blogger Dennis Klein A visit to a local florist 18 months ago aroused my interest in Fair Trade, but it was the conversation with the proprietor that impressed me most. We both recognized our common commitment to thinking globally and acting locally – in retrospect, the seed of a nascent collaboration. We started […]
Madison, WI Becomes the 1st Fair Trade State Capital!
May 9, 2010By Guest Blogger Erica Symonds One of the most progressive cities in the country, Madison, WI is now the 16th Fair Trade City in the U.S. and the first state capital to achieve this status. Madison’s Fair Trade Town campaign is also the first to be spearheaded by a student organization, which is the Fair […]
Red Bank Gives NJ the most FT Towns of Any State!
April 20, 2010By Guest Blogger Dalaiah Kusner When the Red Bank Ten Thousand Villages manager first came across the idea of a Fair Trade Town, she realized that Red Bank would be an ideal place to have a campaign. To start, the town already had a school, a church, and at least one business fully supporting Fair […]
Buena Vista Becomes the First FT Town in Colorado!
February 25, 2010By Guest Blogger Joel Benson Our small community in central Colorado has been working rather hard to put its best foot forward, sustainably. In 2005 a group of forward thinking individuals started our region’s first and only New Urbanist subdivision. We have the longest whitewater park in Colorado, more fourteen thousand foot peaks than anywhere […]
A Baker’s Dozen! Highland Park, NJ Becomes the 13th Fair Trade Town in the U.S.!
November 27, 2009By Guest Blogger Jean Stockdale The campaign to establish the Borough of Highland Park, NJ as a Fair Trade Town began in 2004, before the movement had built a formal presence in the USA. The small town of Garstang, in Lancashire, UK had become the world’s first Fair Trade Town in 2002, and by 2004, […]
Congratulations to Burlington, Our 12th Fair Trade Town!
September 11, 2009by Guest Blogger Melinda Haselton Three women in Burlington, VT shared the same vision to make their city a Fair Trade Town. Coming from different backgrounds and motivated by different experiences with fair trade, Sandy Wynne of Wynne Associates,
Bluffton, Ohio, becomes U.S. 11th Fair Trade Town
August 7, 2009This May, Bluffton, Ohio joined other large cities and small towns across the U.S. in supporting Fair Trade by meeting the criteria to become the 11th Fair Trade Town in the US! On May 16th, they celebrated their new Fair Trade status with an arts and crafts festival and multicultural performance including traditional English folk […]