Fair Trade Minneapolis (501c3 nonprofit)

To encourage people to choose Fair Trade coffee, tea, chocolate, and artisan products - so farmers and artisans earn a fair and sustainable living, Earth is protected by sustainable agriculture, and cocoa for our chocolate is farmed by adults.

Fair Trade Minneapolis is a 501c3 nonprofit, one of 2,277 Fair Trade Towns on Earth, encouraging people to choose Fair Trade coffee, tea, chocolate, and more! We bring metal wall art,"jewelry" made of ceramic and paper-rolled beads, Haiti Friends dolls, ceramic mugs, greeting cards, and garden stakes - from Papillon Marketplace in Haiti, and greeting cards with stitching by Mamas at Rosie's Boutique in Haiti - to events in Minneapolis. This art is made sustainably - by re-using metal from oil drums, paper from American breakfast cereal boxes, and the clay soil of Haiti to make ceramics.

Fair Trade Minneapolis needs help at events in Minneapolis. We're often just my mother and me, so I'm reaching out to ask for your help.

More information: Fair Trade Minneapolis encourages people to choose Fair Trade products - to pay farmers & artisans fairly, protect Earth with sustainable agriculture, and ensure that the cocoa for our chocolate has been farmed by fairly-paid adults.

At events, we sell Fair Trade artisan products made in Haiti by parents at Papillon Marketplace https://papillonmarketplace.com. In Haiti, Papillon Marketplace hires parents, pays them fairly for their work, and provides childcare. Our orders for their products provide jobs for those parents!

To events, we also bring dozens of kinds of Fair Trade tea, and some Fair Trade chocolate - and give away "your choices" for free - when time permits, to raise customer preference for Fair Trade tea and chocolate!