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APRIL 2009

Fair Trade Fundraisers

If your school, congregation, or non-profit organization is looking for a way to raise money while supporting a fair supply chain, a number of our Green Business Network™ members make it easy for you, with a variety of different fundraising methods.

For example, Equal Exchange offers a fundraising program through which you can sell Fair Trade chocolate, coffee, tea, and cocoa, as well as domestic Fair Trade (US-grown) cranberries, almonds, and pecans. Equal Exchange will send order forms and recycled paper catalogs; once your organization has completed its sales, you order the products at a discount and keep the profits.

Divine Chocolate USA uses a fundraising model that allows your organization to purchase chocolate bars (dark, milk, or crispy rice) at wholesale prices, so that you can then resell them retail at a profit.

Still other Fair Trade businesses use online fundraising methods. Global Goods gives your group a code for supporters to use when shopping from its online accessories store, and you’ll earn a percentage of the profits from those sales. Similarly, A Better Footprint, a seller of jewelry, apparel, crafts, and more, will give you a special Web link to their online store, so you earn profits when supporters shop.

Visit these businesses’ Web sites to learn more about their fundraising programs, and select a method that is right for you and your organization:

A Better Footprint: www.abetterfootprint.com

Café Campesino: www.cafecampesino.com

Colores del Pueblo: www.coloresdelpueblo.org

Earth Friendly Coffee: www.earthfriendlycoffee.com

Equal Exchange: www.equalexchange.com

Fair World Designs: www.fairworlddesigns.com

Global Exchange: www.gxonlinestore.org

Global Goods: www.globalgoodspartners.org

Global Sistergoods: www.globalsistergoods.com

Grounds for Change: www.groundsforchange.com

Higher Grounds Trading: www.highergroundstrading.com

Hope for Women: www.hopeforwomen.com

Just Coffee: www.justcoffee.coop/fundraising

Partners for Just Trade: www.partnersforjusttrade.org/pb

PUNKU: www.punkuperu.com

SERRV: www.serrv.org

Trails to Bridges: www.trailstobridges.com

Yachana Gourmet: www.yachanagourmet.com/fundraiser.htm