Giving Back, Supporting Communities
Giving Locally
Community support at home is as important to us as the support we provide for our producers. Locally we are invested in the following organizations:
- BMOCA (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art)
Giving Globally
- Uganda: After torrential rain mudslides buried villages that provide Conscious Coffees with our coffee, we worked with Just Coffee to raise donations for our grower families affected by the disaster.
- Ethiopia: We purchased donkeys for OCFCU's growers through The Donkey Project. Each cooperative where Conscious Coffees sources coffee would enter into a "friendly competition" for their farmers who turn top-quality coffee cherries in to their collective wet processing plants. These wonderfully useful and amiable little creatures make a world of a difference when it comes to hauling water jugs, building and other bulky materials, and - of course - carrying those 100 plus pound sacks of coffee!
- El Salvador: Conscious Coffees, Cooperative Coffees, and CRS, under their recently launched CAFÉ Livelihoods project, travelled to El Salvador to help small-scale coffee farmers better understand the basic quality and management expectations required to sell to international markets, and to help farmer groups create concrete steps to overcome those challenges. Ultimately, this should help them achieve more attractive prices on the international market.
- Bolivia- After venturing to the far corners of the Bolivian coffee-growers’ landscape, Conscious Coffees and Coop Coffees were stunned by the challenges farmers faced, and were inspired by their enthusiasm to improve the quality of their product and to improve the quality of life in their communities. From this experience came the idea for the Fair Trade Cupping Competition and Exchange which we helped host in late September 2006.
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