Fremont Coffee Partners with Coffee Kids

This past week, I’ve been ironing out the details of an agreement with Coffee Kids, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping families in coffee-growing communities through microcredit and other projects. Fremont Coffee is going to have a relationship with Coffee Kids so we can start giving back to the people that make the best coffee possible.

Coffee Kids has been around a long time, and they do good work. They create project lists to fund specific activities in coffee-growing regions that help to educate the populace and diversify the economy. This could mean anything from funding a new school to extending a microloan to help a farmer’s wife open a local side business. Because each community has a different range of problems facing it, Coffee Kids takes these communities individually and suggests projects tailored to address that community’s issues.

In addition to an annual cash contribution, our shop is going to donate 15% of the proceeds from our Fremont Farmer’s Market blend to fund various Coffee Kids projects. Later this year we’re going to try to host a lecture or two in the store from a Coffee Kids representative to talk about what the organization does and how it works (along with a cupping). And we have more planned for this year with Coffee Kids, so stay tuned.