Posted by Amanda on 02 Sep 2010 | Tagged as: Social Responsibility
We talk a lot about food-security on the blog. Most of this is about the work we’re doing with coffee-growing communities at source. As we all know though, hunger exists in our domestic communities as well.
As part of our Domestic Outreach, we make grants in our employees communities. In June, the employees at our Knoxville, [...]
Posted by Amanda on 26 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Social Responsibility
Rick Peyser, Director of Social Advocacy and Coffee Community Outreach recently attended the Sustainable Agriculture Partnerships Conference in San Francisco, CA. While there he spoke about the work we’ve been doing around food security in regions where we purchase coffee.
As we’ve discussed before on our blog, through research we discovered that there are coffee farming [...]
Posted by Amanda on 12 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Other Stuff, Social Responsibility
Well, it’s been a few days since our River Cleanup Week wrapped up. Liz Dohrman, our Enterprise Volunteerism Specialist and Paul Comey, VP of Environmental Affairs spent all week on the river, 12 hours a day and are just starting to dry out.
This year’s River Cleanup saw the largest amount of employee turnout with 153 [...]
Posted by Amanda on 05 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Social Responsibility
We’re closing out Day 4 of our Vermont River Cleanup week on the Winooski River. Although we had some rain in the beginning of the week,the skies have been clear enough for us to be on the river morning and afternoon.
We’ve already hauled some interesting objects from the river – (a stove, car axle, bicycles). [...]
Posted by Amanda on 02 Aug 2010 | Tagged as: Social Responsibility
August is here – which brings mixed feelings in Vermont. August is one of my favorite months, but also signals the slow close of our short summer. Another earmark of August is that its River Cleanup time. As we announced this morning in a Press Release, Green Mountain Coffee has joined a nationwide effort to [...]
Posted by Amanda on 08 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Social Responsibility
At our National Sales Meetings the sales force from Green Mountain Coffee (as well as the other brands in our Specialty Coffee Business Unit) and Keurig convene for one whole week. During the meeting there are the expected inspirational speeches about the future of the company and how our sales team has been instrumental in our [...]
Posted by Amanda on 30 Jun 2010 | Tagged as: Social Responsibility
VOTE! Yes! Voting for our Revelation to Action Competition ends today! Today is the last day to vote for an organization that you believe in or resides in your New England state!
Not sure who the finalists are? We posted brief descriptions of all the finalists a while back, but we’ve posted them again so you [...]