Tag: Fair Trade USA

Fair Trade USA & Rachael Wang Launch ‘We Wear Fair Trade’ Supporting Garment Workers

Stuart Mitchell

Fair Trade USA is proud to unveil its annual lookbook and campaign, We Wear Fair Trade. This year’s campaign theme and lookbook, “She Wears Fair Trade,” was made in partnership with renowned creative director, activist, and stylist Rachael Wang, and features Fair Trade Certified apparel modeled by prominent human and environmental rights advocates who represent women’s empowerment.  Set to launch during Fashion Revolution Week (honoring the anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,134 people), this conversation has never been more pressing than now, amid the COVID-19 pandemic…

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Fair Trade USA Awarded $1.4 Million Grant from the Walmart Foundation to Deepen Impact for Farmers

Stuart Mitchell

Fair Trade USA®, has received a grant from the Walmart Foundation to strengthen support for producer-led community development projects along fair trade supply chains. The $1.4 million grant, which runs through 2022, will enable the organization to develop a more data-driven, standardized needs assessment process and deploy tools for farmers and workers to implement impactful projects in their communities, projects which are expected to become more critical than ever during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Fair Trade USA’s global model improves livelihoods in producer communities in 49 countries through its…

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Fair Trade USA Founder & CEO Wins Ethical Corporation’s 2019 Business Leadership Award

Stuart Mitchell

Fair Trade USA®, the leading third-party certifier of fair trade products in North America, is proud to announce that its founder and CEO Paul Rice was honored with the Business Leader of the Year Award at Ethical Corporation’s 10th Responsible Business Awards 2019 – the world’s leading celebration of responsible business excellence. Paul Rice launched the nonprofit organization in 1998 after spending 11 years organizing farmers in the highlands of Nicaragua. There he founded and led the country’s first fair trade coffee export cooperative, which introduced him to the transformative power…

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