Non-profit Coffee Partnerships
Posted by Alissa on 18 Oct 2008 at 7:00 am | Tagged as: Coffee & K-Cups, Fair Trade
The term partnership is defined as a relationship between two parties. Green Mountain Coffee takes great pride in its partnerships and does whatever it can to foster those relationships. The following are proverbs that support the initiative behind the partnerships GMC has created.
Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. This old adage has generations of human footprints behind it. The saying lives on throughout time because it speaks the truth. Heifer International® is a non-profit organization that gives livestock to those in need and teaches them to use their livestock as a resource to sustain a way of life; and to take that one step further Heifer International encourages sharing these learning’s and livestock with neighbors. We partner with Heifer international to make a Fair Trade Certified coffee called Heifer Hope Blend.
A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings beings it has a song. What better sound to awaken to than that of a song bird? Lucky for us, Green Mountain Coffee partners with National Wildlife Federation® to produce a Fair Trade Certified National Wildlife Blend. This coffee is grown in environments rich in biodiversity, under canopies of shade that provide excellent winter habitat for migratory songbirds that summer in North American backyards.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire. We invite “viewers like you” to enjoy great taste while preserving both natural habitat and one of America’s greatest national treasures – PBS®. Green Mountain Coffee partners with PBS to promote community, as well as global awareness with our Fair Trade Certified PBS Blend. The beans for this coffee are grown in the lush, tropical rain forests surrounding the El Triunfo Biospheres in Mexico.
All three of these coffees carry the Fair Trade Certified™ label, which guarantees farmers a fair price for their coffee harvest and enables them to reinvest in their communities. Fair Trade Certified fully utilizes the positive impact they have on the world, both at the beginning of their life and at the end. Fair Trade Partnership coffees are all about empowerment… empowerment to the one who grows the beans, empowerment to their namesake, and empowerment to the consumer.