WHERE TO FIND CRS FAIR TRADE COFFEE PARTNERS

The following companies are fully committed to Fair Trade coffee.Â By contacting partners in your region first, you support farmers overseas and small business at home! Each purchase from the CRS Fair Trade network results in a contribution to the Fair Trade Fund, which provides market-building grants to producers and advocates of Fair Trade.

NORTHEAST:

Coffee Exchange, Inc., Providence, RI, extends its commitment beyond quality in the cup to support environmental sustainability through organic agricultural practices and honest wages for farmers. Coffee Exchange also contributes $0.10 from each pound of coffee sold to Coffee Kids to aid its long-term Telephone: 401-273-1198, 800-632-2339; Website: http://www.coffeexchange.com/; wholesale http://www.coffeexchange.com/revise/wholesaleCRS.html

Coffee-Tea-Etc. Goshen, CT, Our mission: Provide customers with the best quality products at fair prices, bring farmers and consumers closer by educating consumers about coffee and tea and by educating farmers about consumers' needs, and pay farmers a fair price so they can provide for their families and communities and live to San Luis Tontem in Guatemala. Telephone: 860-491-9920; Website: http://www.coffee-tea-etc.com/crsfairtrade?id=jguvzk5p&mv_pc=46

Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Company Orange, MA, Each player in our cycle of production and distribution, from the farmer to the consumer, participates in socially just and environmentally responsible trade. We hope that all other coffee companies will follow our lead. Telephone: 978-544-2002, 800-325-3008; Website: http://www.deansbeans.com/; wholesale http://www.deansbeans.com/coffee/wholesale.html; fundraising http://www.deansbeans.com/coffee/fundraising.html

Equal Exchange West Bridgewater, MA, Mission: to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relations between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through our success, the viability of worker cooperatives and fair trade. Telephone: 774-776-7366; Website: http://equalexchange.stores.yahoo.net/; interfaith program http://equalexchange.stores.yahoo.net/bulwholbeanc.html

SOUTHEAST:

Café Campesino Americus, GA , Georgia's first and only all Fair Trade, organic coffee company. We supply individuals, coffee houses, natural foods markets, cooperatives, fund-raising groups and other organizations throughout the country with some of the best specialty-grade coffee in the United States. Telephone: 229-924-2468; 888-532-4728; Website: www.cafecampesino.com/?click=285;wholesale and fundraising http://www.cafecampesino.com/Articles.asp?ID=185

Larry's Beans, Inc. Raleigh, NC We sell awesome-tasting coffee in a way to make the world better. We started out as Coffee Sticklers. We became Fair Trade Pioneers. Now we're trying to change the world, acting locally and globally. Telephone: 919-828-1234; Website: http://www.larrysbeans.com/; wholesale Â http://www.larrysbeans.com/wholesale-inquiries-2/ Â Â

SOUTHWEST:

Café Justo Douglas, AZ is an association of coffee cooperatives committed to the Just Trade model of value-added Fair Trade commerce in which coffee producers own the means of production and derive the benefits of processing, packing and marketing their products in the Fair Trade markets of Mexico and the United States. Telephone: 866-545-6406; Website: http://www.justcoffee.org/

The Earth Friendly Coffee Company Wheat Ridge, CO, Mission: to find the best Arabica coffee from small farmers worldwide; to pay these growers a price that enables them and their families to prosper; to offer this excellent coffee at a modest price that allows many more people to enjoy it; to provide our customers with an excellent chemical-free shade grown coffee; and to be fair to ourselves as well. Telephone: 303- 641-4283, 866-807-6089; Website: http://www.earthfriendlycoffee.com/; wholesale http://earthfriendlycoffee.com/SJPricing.htm; fundraising http://earthfriendlycoffee.com/fundraiser.htmÂ Â Â Â Â Â

WEST

Grounds for Change Poulsbo, WA is a Pacific Northwest organic coffee roaster specializing in socially responsible and environmentally sustainable coffee. We roast exclusively 100% Fair Trade Organic Coffee, that is grown in shaded conditions. Telephone: 800-796-6820; Website: http://www.groundsforchange.com/partners/CRS/ wholesale http://www.groundsforchange.com/support/wholesale.php?;Â fundraising http://www.groundsforchange.com/support/fundraiser.php?

Nectar of Life Spokane, WA was established in 2002 to promote social justice, Fair Trade, and sustainable organic agriculture. To these ends, we are devoted to sourcing and roasting only the finest gourmet, Fair Trade and organic certified coffees. Telephone: 509-979-5245; Website: http://www.nectaroflife.com/; wholesale http://www.nectaroflife.com/Wholesale-Organic-Fair-Trade-Coffee.htm ; fundraising http://www.nectaroflife.com/coffee-fundraiser.htmÂ

Pura Vida Seattle, WA The mission of Pura Vida is to create good by using capitalism to empower producers, motivate consumers, inspire business leaders, and ultimately serve the poor.Â Pura Vida is 100% charitably owned; the company uses all its resources to help at-risk children and families in coffee-growing countries build more hopeful futures. Telephone: 877-469-1431, 206-328-9606; Website: http://www.puravidacoffee.org; wholesale http://www.puravidacoffee.com/wholesale/wholesale_body.html

MIDWEST

Beans for Better Life, Noblesville (Indianapolis), IN. Beans For Better Life's guiding values of integrity, compassion and dignity define its our core purpose - Better Life! As a reflection of its commitment to these principles, Beans for Better Life buys its beans at a Fair Trade price and gives an additional 10 percent of gross profits back to the cooperatives that grow the coffee it sells. Drink up! Give back! Telephone: 317.219.3077; Website: http://www.beansforbetterlife.com/; Â wholesale http://www.beansforbetterlife.com/BeansWholesale.aspxÂ fundraising http://www.beansforbetterlife.com/BeansFundraising.aspx

Higher Grounds Trading Company, Leland, MI connects conscious coffee consumers with the inspiring farmers who handcraft our beans. We are committed to paying fair wages along our supply chain, donating profits to growing communities, and minimizing our impact on the environment. Telephone: 231-256-9687; Website: http://www.javaforjustice.com/partner-profile/info_36.html wholesaleÂ http://www.javaforjustice.com/wholesale.html Â fundraising http://www.javaforjustice.com/coffees-for-change/cat_4.html

Just Coffee Madison, WI is committed to a better way of trade and to real relationships with our grower-partners. We ask you to join with us, with our producers, and with their communities. When we consume we make decisions that affect the lives of others, even if these connections are hard to see in our own daily lives. Â Telephone: 608-204-9011; Website: http://justcoffee.coop/

Mother Earth Coffee Co. Mission, KS Mother Earth Coffee Company is a woman-owned company dedicated to purchasing coffees from farms and cooperatives in El Salvador in which women play a major role. Telephone: 913-722-5711; Website: http://www.motherearthcoffeeco.com/; wholesale: http://www.motherearthcoffeeco.com/comming_soon.htm

Peace Coffee Minneapolis, MN. Our ongoing mission is one of commitment to the farmers, to the people who drink their coffee and to themselves. Peace Coffee trades fairly with small organic coffee grower cooperatives in Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua, Ethiopia and Sumatra. Telephone: 612-870-3440, 888-324-7872; Website: https://www.peacecoffee.com/ fundraising https://www.peacecoffee.com/pdf/Fundraisersheet.pdf

Providence Coffee Faribault, MN, We are committed to developing and expanding sustainable and fair business relationships. As practicing Catholics, we see fair and ethical business as a direct call from God to live the Gospels in our own time. All our products are purchased from worker owned cooperatives where the workers directly receive the benefits of fair trade pricing. Telephone:507-412-1733; Website: http://www.providencecoffee.com/ wholesale http://www.providencecoffee.com/index.php?main_page=wholesaleÂ fundraising http://www.providencecoffee.com/index.php?main_page=fundraise_program

For more details about our CRS Fair Trade coffee partners, visit our coffee map at www.crsfairtrade.org/coffee

And remember to tell our partners that you are part of the CRS Fair Trade network!