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Fair Trade in Your Community
Read more about Fair Trade Coalitions in your local area:
Learn how to declare your town a Fair Trade Town. Read more about cities that have passed Fair Trade Resolutions.
America's First Fair Trade Town Committee- Media, Pennsylvania
The FT committee meets weekly, conducts a town-wide FT raffle, supports local coffee roasters and other businesses carrying FT products, works with local stores to increase availability of FT products, gives presentations on FT, does outreach to local schools and faith-based organizations, and builds relationships with the press. Read the text of the resolution here. Website: http://visitmediapa.com/fairtrade/
Amherst Fair Trade Partnership (Amherst, MA) The Amherst Fair Trade Partnership is committed to educating consumers and merchants about the principles of Fair Trade. Our intention is to increase the marketing and purchase of Fair Trade products in the town of Amherst, Mass. We have formed a steering committee and plan to sponsor a walking tour of the downtown business that serve or sell Fair Trade products. We are also working toward Fair Trade Towns status. Contact: amherstfairtrade@earthlink.net
Bay Area Fair Trade Coalition (San Francisco/East Bay) The Bay Area Fair Trade Coalition is a group of consumers, students, non-profits, Fair Trade businesses, activists and community members working together to raise awareness and build demand for Fair Trade in the Greater San Francisco/Berkeley/Oakland Bay Area. The coalition aspires to make San Francisco the first Fair Trade Town in the US! Blog: http://bayareafairtradecoalition.blogspot.com/
Boston Fair Trade Coalition The goal of the Boston Fair Trade Coalition is to “support local, healthy, sustainable communities by promoting Fair Trade principles through community outreach efforts, and to address the gross injustices of a world trade system that is proving disastrous for small farmers, artisans and local environments worldwide.” Website: www.bostonfairtrade.org
Chicago Fair Trade The Chicago Committee on FT works to increase support for Fair Trade in the Chicago metro area through education, advocacy and targeted major-purchaser campaigns. Website: http://www.chicagofairtrade.org/
Fair Trade Brattleboro (Brattleboro, Vermont) The Fair Trade Brattleboro project aims to promote Fair Trade and conscious consumerism. We are forming a steering committee with regular meetings and workshops open to the community, and are currently working to make Brattleboro, Vermont the second Fair Trade town in the United States. We hold educational and promotional events and have been performing market research in order to create a baseline measurement of existing Fair Trade activity in town. Join us! Website: www.fairtradebrattleboro.org
Fair Trade Los Angeles Fair Trade LA is an open, democratically organized group of people who are working for proactive, ideal/realistic solutions in a global movement for social and environmental justice. Fair Trade LA participants include students from all over the Los Angeles area, individuals, members of Faith Based organizations, Oxfam America, and many other groups and individuals! Everyone's welcome to participate. All you have to do is express your interest! Simply send a blank email to fairtradela-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to be added to our email list. You'll then receive information about Fair Trade actions and events in the Los Angeles area! If you have additional questions about Fair Trade LA, please email fairtradela@gmail.com and one of the steering committee members will get back to you. Website: fairtradela.wordpress.com
Fair Trade for a Greater Orlando Coalition (Orlando, Florida) FTGOC is an endeavor to create awareness and educate the community about the Fair Trade alternative and expand the market for Fair Trade products. The overarching goal of FTGOC is to work with the City of Orlando to pass a Resolution supporting Fair Trade. Website: http://www.ftgoc.org/index.html
Fair Trade Portsmouth
Website: www.fairtradeportsmouth.org (coming soon!)
Fair Trade Puget Sound (Seattle) Fair Trade Puget Sound is a coalition of community groups, businesses, NGOs, faith communities, students, and individuals who have come together to spearhead an effort to educate local consumers about Fair Trade coffee. The coalition’s aim is to measurably increase the availability and consumption of Fair Trade Certified coffee within Seattle and throughout the greater Puget Sound area. Website: http://www.fairtradepugetsound.org/
GIFT, Growing Into Fair Trade (Las Vegas) We are students, artists, teachers, parents, activists and concerned consumers earnestly committed to growing the demand for Fair Trade in Las Vegas at an individual, market, and community level. We meet every other week to to educate ourselves on Fair Trade issues and to work on events, projects and activities. We are an open group and all are welcome! Website: http://www.giftlv.org/
New Hampshire Fair Trade Coalition The mission of the New Hampshire Fair Trade Coalition to raise awareness of fair trade in an effort to create justice on a global scale. Blog: www.nhftc.blogspot.com
New York City Fair Trade Coalition The New York City Fair Trade Coalition includes Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, United Food and Commercial Workers (Local 1500) , Sierra Club (New York City Group), Park Slope Food Co-op, Inc., American Jewish World Service, United Students for Fair Trade, NYCISPES, NYC People’s Referendum on Free Trade, St. Andrews the Apostle Church in Brooklyn, Fair Trade Resource Network, and Interrupción. The coalition is dedicated to raising public awareness and increasing visibility and availability of Fair Trade products. Website: www.fairtradenyc.org
Northampton Fair Trade We are a grassroots coalition working towards making Northampton, Massachusetts one of the first Fair Trade Towns in America! We are partnering on the local level with BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) and SweatFree Communities to include in our vision a "Buy Local - Buy Fair" message. We are holding ongoing educationalevents focusing on Fair Trade and Social Justice for all. We have support from the local government and are growing our coalition so we can focus on working more in depth with business owners, schools and faith based groups. Please contact us if you would like to join us or learn more! Website: www.mafairtrade.com
San Diego Friends of Fair Trade Formed in 2005 by representatives of student, faith-based, business, and community groups, San Diego Friends of Fair Trade have set out “to increase the understanding and use of Fair Trade throughout San Diego through education, policy change, and a shift in economic paradigm.” Website: www.FairTradeSD.org
San Luis Obispo Fair Trade Coalition (CA) The San Luis Obispo Fair Trade Coalition is a network of businesses, non-profits, students, and concerned citizens that advocates for global Fair Trade. Fair Trade adheres to social criteria and environmental practices that foster more equitable, ethical, and sustainable systems of international production and trade. Our goal is to spread awareness about just global trade relationships and to inspire conscious consuming on a local level. Contact: slofairtradecoaliton@gmail.com
South Jersey Fair Trade Alliance The South Jersey Fair Trade Alliance works to educate and activate South Jersey residents and business owners about the importance of Fair Trade. We work to raise awareness through our annual alternative gift fair, presentations, educational displays and legislation. The Alliance is working to make Fair Trade products more available in the South Jersey area and to strengthen the Fair Trade movement. Washington DC Fair Trade Coalition This Coalition has been established to link the efforts of people, businesses and organizations in Washington DC in order to strengthen the solidarity for fair trade in both our local community and in the capital of the United States. Website: www.FairTradeDC.blogspot.com
Fair Trade Towns USA
The Fair Trade Towns campaign is based on principles and guidelines set forth by the Fairtrade Foundation in the U.K., where the first Fair Trade town was recognized in 2000. In the U.S., there is no single governing body that coordinates or monitors Fair Trade Towns. Rather, towns and cities may publicly declare that they are Fair Trade once they meet five goals set forth by the Fair Trade Towns campaign. To be recognized as a Fair Trade Town or City in the U.S., the following goals should be met:
For a "how-to" toolkit for obtaining official recognition of a Fair Trade Town and more information, visit www.fairtradetownsusa.org, or contact Fair Trade Towns coordinator Sara Stender: by phone: 802.356.0551, or email: sara@fairtradetownsusa.org.
Fair Trade Resolutions
Read more about the New York FT Coalition at www.fairtradenyc.org Read the text of the resolution here Read the NYC Fair Trade Coalition's press release here OR, contact David Funkhouser at dfunkhouser@transfairusa.org Other Examples of Fair Trade Resolutions coming soon. If you know of a Fair Trade Resolution in your city, please let us know! |
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Inspired by the great success of Fair Trade Towns campaigns in Britain and other countries in Europe, community members and representatives from local businesses and organizations began meeting in Spring 2005 with the goal of making Media a Fair Trade Town. The idea came from Hal Taussig, Director of the Untours Foundation and owner of Untours, a Media-based travel business. Following the five criteria established by the Fair Trade Towns campaign in Britain, Media met the goals and, on July 8, 2006, held a public ceremony in the town square announcing the First Fair Trade Town in the U.S.
Fair Trade Portsmouth is a grassroots coalition dedicated to bringing the highest quality goods to local retailers, produced by farmers and artisans who have been paid a fair wage. We are operating in partnership with the Unitarian Universalist Church to host screenings of Black Gold and will be holding a Fair Trade world craft festival and jazz concert. In addition to our retail work, we plan to speak with the Portsmouth City Council about passing a resolution to show official support for the Fair Trade movement. 