3375 Edison Way,
Menlo Park, CA 94025
GRACE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST (UCC)
"Serving Justice, Loving Kindness"
A United Church of Christ Congregation in Flemington, NJ
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WE HAVE EQUAL EXCHANGE COFFEE NOW AVAILABLE AT THE CHURCH- $8.00 PER 12 OZ. BAG
- ALL ORGANIC.
- DECAFFEINATED AND REGULAR.
- DONATIONS GO TO SUPPORT BOTH SMALL SCALE FARMERS AS WELL AS OUR LOCAL FOOD PANTRY (ABOUT $1.20 PER BAG).
Read Below for more information as well as watching a YouTube above about the program....
Dear Friend,
Thank you for being part of the United Church of Christ Coffee Project, a partnership linking UCC congregants across the country with small-scale farmers all over the world. Through your participation in this project, you join over 700 other UCC congregations, offices, camps and retreat centers, and other organizations in building a more just world.
Equal Exchange works with co-operatives of small-scale farmers who grow coffee, tea, cocoa, nuts and fruit. Through their relationship with Equal Exchange, a Fair Trade Organization, these farmers receive a guaranteed minimum price, affordable credit, and support for sustainable farming. In a conventional trading system, small farmers around the world are often trapped in a cycle of poverty and receive extremely low prices for their crops.
Fair Trade enables farmers to stay on their land, support their families, plan for the future and care for the environment.
Additionally, for every pound of fairly traded products UCC participants purchase through the project, Equal Exchange donates 15 cents to the UCC Small Farmer Fund. These funds enable UCC Justice and Witness Ministries to support relief, human rights, capacity building, and environmental initiatives with farmer co-operatives all over the world.
MISSION: Equal Exchange’s mission is 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.
