Archive for the '100% Fair Trade' Category

In recent weeks, CRS Fair Trade partners have received a lot of attention. Katy told you about our coffee partner, Pura Vida, being featured on the PBS News Hour. The next weekend at the Fair Trade Federation conference, our craft and chocolate partner, SERRV, received the “Outstanding Service to the Fair Trade Community” [...]

Read the entry: Proud of the Company We Keep →

When you turn on the radio and hear about nation-wide job loss, perhaps even in your own family, or when you read about long-standing struggles with diseases like TB, you may feel discouraged and uncertain.  Fair Trade gives us some good news to share, along with proven ways to build an economy for everyone.
This year [...]

Read the entry: Celebrating Fair Trade Success at Home and Worldwide →

Yesterday I mentioned Catholic Relief Services’ national and regional plans for World Fair Trade Day and encouraged you to get started on your own events.  Of course, we try to practice what we preach here at CRS Fair Trade! Here’s what we’ve cooked up:
Despite being a very multicultural organization, CRS Fair Trade is going to [...]

Read the entry: Fair Trade Ideas for World Fair Trade Day May 9th →

Pura Vida, CRS Fair Trade coffee partner in Seattle, was featured on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer last night. I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about how the economy will affect Fair Trade generally and our partners specifically. We had a good example last week of how Nectar of Life, our partner in [...]

Read the entry: Pura Vida on the Jim Lehrer Newshour →

Catholic Relief Services works in about 100 countries and in many of those same places tens of thousands of people will take a Fair Trade break on May 9: World Fair Trade Day.  From coffee cupping to drumming circles to health screenings, Fair Traders use the second Saturday of May as a rallying point to [...]

Read the entry: Are You Ready for May 9th? Catholic Relief Services Is! →

Following up on her first post “From Madison to Mali” SERRV Board member Julie Danis shares more about the Fair Trade Fund sponsored trip to Mali. Across the next few days of diary entries you’ll read what Fair Trade is like in practice:
Mali Proverb: One who puts on his shoes and comes to visit [...]

Read the entry: More from Mali →

We’ve finished the first full week of 2009.  How is it going with those resolutions?  Have you shown up regularly at the gym?  Written in your journal daily?  Been nicer to that grumpy neighbor?  Cut back on unnecessary energy usage?
One strategy I’ve heard for keeping on track with your aspirations is to set benchmarks to [...]

Read the entry: Global Solidarity Resolutions All Year Long →

Today and tomorrow, a whole crew of staff/volunteers is helping Katy host our annual Work of Human Hands sale here at CRS Global Headquarters.   If you are in the Baltimore area, come on over!
Of course, shopping at a sale isn’t the only way to give Fair Trade this season.  Hundreds of individuals like you also [...]

Read the entry: The many ways to give Fair Trade this Christmas →

This recent “All Hallows Eve” 25 youth and youth ministers from the Orlando, Florida Diocese passed up a “normal” Halloween to participate in the first ever Youth Ministry Fair Trade Weekend. Guest blogger and CRS Fair Trade Ambassador Stephanie Bosse shares her reflections:
“The service retreat was put together by Prince of Peace Youth Minister [...]

Read the entry: Fair Trade Saints in the Making →

It is good to see that despite the troubling economy, two Fair Trade leaders in the United States are hiring.  If you are looking for meaningful work in the movement check out these announcements:
Executive Director for the Fair Trade Resource Network 
The Fair Trade Resource Network is seeking a full-time executive director to conceptualize, energize, secure [...]

Read the entry: Two New Jobs at Two Great Fair Trade Organizations →