Fair Trade Certified™ products are now available on Amazon.com. Choose from 100 certified products, including Pura Vida Ethiopian coffee, Sencha green tea mints, Nutiva Hemp Shake, Wholesome Sweeteners sugar, Alter Eco tea and rice, and more!

Looking for unique and ethical gifts for the holidays? With a large assortment of both Fair Trade Certified products and fairly traded crafts, Global Exchange's online store has something for everyone on your shopping list.

Click here and type in your zipcode to find one of the 40,000 retailers nationwide offering Fair Trade Certified products near you.

Rubicon Bakery is proud to announce the launch of its Gourmet Chocolate Torte, the first commercially available cake made with Fair Trade Certified ingredients. The cakes are available at Andronico's, Whole Foods, Mollie Stone's and other select food stores. The Fair Trade Certified coffee and cocoa in this cake support small-scale farming families in Latin America. Not only that, but all sales from Rubicon Bakery support Rubicon Programs, which has helped over 35,000 under-served individuals get jobs, housing and the skills they need to create better lives.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters introduces PBS Blend, grown in the lush, tropical rainforests surrounding the El Triunfo Biosphere in Mexico. With this Fair Trade Certified organic coffee, "viewers like you" can enjoy great taste while supporting farming communities, protecting natural habitat and preserving one of America's greatest national treasures - PBS. PBS Blend supports public television's independent and award-winning programming and educational services.

The Healthy Beverage Company has released the world's first USDA Organic and Fair Trade Certified energy drink, Steaz® Energy™: Organic Fuel for the Mind, Body and Soul™. Available in popular retail outlets such as Whole Foods, Wild Oats, Wegmans and Shaw's supermarkets, Steaz Energy provides a buzz natural consumers can feel good about. Because the Sri Lankan Ceylon green tea used in Steaz is Fair Trade Certified, consumers can rest assured that the tea pickers received fair wages and decent working conditions.

Frontier Natural Products Co-op, a leading U.S. manufacturer and marketer of natural and organic products, introduces Frontier Fair Trade Certified Organic Vanilla, the first Fair Trade Certified organic vanilla extracts and flavors for home baking in the U.S. Fair Trade Certified vanilla helps stabilize vanilla-producing communities by ensuring that small-scale farmers receive a fair price and employ sustainable farming practices. More information is available at Frontier's website.

For the third year in a row, TransFair USA was named a Social Capitalist Award winner by Fast Company magazine and the Monitor Group. TransFair USA is one of forty three non-profits honored for creative business solutions to the most challenging social problems today. TransFair USA CEO and President Paul Rice is featured on the cover of Fast Company's Dec/Jan 2007 issue. Read more here.

O, The Oprah Magazine -- The Good Shopper

Wine Spectator -- Tastes: Drink Great Coffee, Feel Virtuous Too

Stanford Social Innovation Review -- Making It to McDonald's: How Fair Trade Coffee Moved out of its Niche and into the Most Mainstream Market of All

Co-op America Newsletter -- Fair Trade Rice Makes Its Debut

Fair Trade Month 2006 was a smashing success thanks to the invaluable contributions of TransFair USA's many business partners, producers, supporters, and staff members. After successful Fair Trade Month programs in 2004 and 2005, we knew we could meet our goals of increasing consumer awareness of Fair Trade and encouraging business partners to promote their Fair Trade Certified products, but we were blown away by the explosive popularity of the promotion this year!

Read the highlights from Fair Trade Month 2006.

Pascual Ataulfo from CESMACH coffee cooperative at Wild Oats Market in Denver, Colorado

When Pascual Ataulfo Moreno, the treasurer of CESMACH coffee cooperative in Chiapas, Mexico, received a handwritten message last October inviting him to the United States to celebrate Fair Trade Month, he was excited - and terrified. His mother warned told him not to go: "You're not an educated man. You'll get lost in California. In fact, you won't even make it out of the airport in Mexico City!" His wife, however, encouraged him to take advantage of the opportunity: "You must go and make your sons proud. They'll be able to say, 'my father was in the United States.'"

Ataulfo decided to make the long and arduous journey to represent his organization at dozens of Fair Trade Month events. Ataulfo saw snow, the ocean, and rode an escalator for the very first time! Audiences appreciated hearing the incredible story of Ataulfo's life and the social, economic and environmental progress his cooperative has been able to achieve through participation in Fair Trade. Thank You, Pascual Ataulfo!

Student organizers at New York University won a Fair Trade Month mini-grant from TransFair USA to promote Fair Trade on campus. They held a gala, conference, and launched a "Leave Your Mark on Aramark" petition campaign to persuade campus foodservice provider Aramark to offer Fair Trade Certified products. According to Oxfam America at NYU president Amanda White, "The proportion of the student body that now knows about Fair Trade is enormous. We've also gotten so much press over the past couple of weeks, and that's helped us push Aramark towards change."

Read an article from the Washington Square News.
View the NYU Fair Trade petition here.

Students at the University of Washington are at it again, this time organizing a three-day "Fair Trade Faire" on campus. Says student Rod Palmquist, "We got artists to donate coffee mugs, local coffee companies to donate bags of coffee, and a new 100% Fair Trade cafe on campus to give us coupons for free cups of coffee which we gave to people who spun our 'Fair Trade Wheel'. A member of our group dressed up as 'Fair Trade Man,' and we even had coffee sack-races. All these ideas were great for publicity and I would highly recommend them to groups at other schools."

Read more about creative and inspiring campaigns here.

United Students for Fair Trade Convergence in Boston, MA, February 16 - 19, 2007

Join TransFair on a "Face to Face" Trip to Nicaragua or Rwanda

Coffee: The Gerhart Coffee Co., World Bean RoastHers Inc., Blue Mountain Trading Co., Caffe Vita, Jameson Coffee, Mayorga Coffee Roasters, Inc, Cottonwood Roastery, Java Jacks Coffee House, Asbury Park Coffee Roasters, Berres Brothers Coffee, Roma Kawa Coffee Roasters, Prescott Coffee Roasters, Reality Roasters, Jumping Goat Coffee, Altitude Coffee, Pure Java Network, Monarch Foods (label: Rituals Estate)

Tea: The Healthy Beverage Company

Vanilla: Danisco, Dammann, Nielsen Massey Vanillas, Virginia Dare

Cocoa and Ingredients: Barry Callebaut USA, ECOM Cocoa - Atlantic USA, American Instants, Inc., Rubicon Bakery, Pecan Deluxe Candy Co, Greyston Bakery

TransFair USA would like to thank the Skoll Foundation for their generous support of TransFair's work around the developing world and in the United States. In addition, TransFair thanks the Friedman Family Foundation for their renewed support in 2006. TransFair USA is equally grateful to all of our individual donors for their continuing dedication to Fair Trade. Through your donations, we are able to empower more consumers and more producers to build a more equitable and sustainable model of international trade in which all benefit.

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Your tax-deductible contributions to TransFair USA make it possible for us to continue working to empower farmers and farm workers in some of the poorest communities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia with the tools and resources for uniquely sustainable economic and community development. Contact TransFair USA's Development Department at (510) 663-5260 or via email at development@transfairusa.org for more information or to discuss your donation options. Thank you!