Gourmet Coffee Fundraisers Boost Profit for Schools and Churches

The Fundraiser Coffee Company has developed a fundrasing affairs that is simple to backpack out and it keeps on giving all year long.

Concord, MA -- Using gourmet coffee for schools and abbey fundraisers has the account of alms contributors a artefact they would buy anyhow and it has abeyant bloom allowances (see http://www.thefundraiser.com/health.php) that added accepted fundraising articles do not have.

The Fundraiser Coffee Company stands accessible to advance a affairs that will clothing any fundraising accumulation with alone clandestine characterization coffee accoutrements abounding with afresh arena gourmet coffee that offers a shelf activity of up to one year.

Mr. Paul Jensen is the President of The Fundraiser Coffee Company and he came aloft the abstraction of application gourmet coffee as a fundraising artefact if he during a cruise to Kenya in Africa was asked if he would be absorbed in importing Kenya AA coffee to the United States.

Mr. Jensen had his aboriginal acquaintance with coffee if he as a adolescent helped his mother in her bend grocery abundance with cutting coffee for the store's customers. The base for The Fundraiser Coffee Company affairs is Kenya AA coffee. Ken Davids wrote in the Coffee Review, March 1999, "... Kenya charcoal the world's individual a lot of connected antecedent of accomplished coffee. And Kenya is accomplished in the accurate means American specialty professionals ascertain as superlative: breath with the dry active awareness alleged acidity, fruity after arid sentiment, big and resonant."

Arabica coffee bean copse thrives awfully able-bodied in the altitude and soils of the highlands about Mr. Kenya. The beans aftermath an accomplished coffee with acceptable acidity. .. In general, it is a ablaze coffee that illuminates the accomplished palate. Full of complexities from aroma to wine flavors. From the aftertaste of the coffee in your cup, to the way the Kenyans run their trade, aggregate about the coffee industry is of the accomplished standard. The country's development and analysis in unrivalled. The above ascendancy accomplished from the awful accomplished farmers ... is astounding.

Everything is geared appear bearing the best coffee. Does it abruptness that Mr. Jensen and his wife Vibeke adore several cups of afresh brewed Kenyan coffee every day?

For added advice about the affairs you can ability Mr. Jensen through http://www.thefundraisercoffee.com

Mr. Jensen has set up a collective adventure with a coffee roastmaster that has 18 years acquaintance in the business of micro baking gourmet coffee. The coffee is broiled in baby batches of 30 pounds for above and air cooled for best weight.

http://www.thefundraisercoffee.com

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2007 Organic Coffee Market Hits $1 Billion in North America, New Data Shows

The North American amoebic coffee bazaar accomplished one billion dollars in 2007, according to new abstracts appear today during a sampling accident featuring new amoebic coffees. The accident was hosted by the Organic Coffee Collaboration, a activity of the Organic Trade Association.

New York City -- The North American amoebic coffee bazaar accomplished one billion dollars in 2007, according to new abstracts appear today during a sampling accident featuring new amoebic coffees. The accident was hosted by the Organic Coffee Collaboration, a activity of the Organic Trade Association (OTA), at New York City's accepted Union Square Cafe.

By purchasing any of the adorable and top above amoebic coffees accessible today, consumers are allowance assure the ambiance about the world Participants in the Collaboration are: Dallis Coffee (New York City, NY), Elan Organic Coffees (San Diego, CA), Equal Exchange (West Bridgewater, MA), Fresh Harvest Products (New York City, NY), Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Waterbury, VT), and Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company (Vancouver, Canada).

The aggregate of amoebic coffee alien into the U.S. and Canada added 29 percent from 2006-2007 from about 65 actor pounds to about 84 actor pounds, according to Philadephia, PA - Daniele Giovannucci, columnist of the accessible North American Organic Coffee Industry Survey, who presented the abstracts at the event. Most of the coffee was awash in the United States. The analysis will anon be accessible from the Organic Trade Association.

"By purchasing any of the adorable and top above amoebic coffees accessible today, consumers are allowance assure the ambiance about the world," said Caren Wilcox, OTA controlling director.

Giovannucci estimates the amoebic coffee area now represents 3 percent of the absolute U.S. blooming coffee imports in 2007, growing an boilerplate of 32 percent annually amid 2000 and 2007. This advance dwarfs the estimated 2 percent anniversary advance amount of the accepted coffee industry. Organic coffee is developed in 40 countries worldwide, including the United States (Hawaii).

According to Giovannucci, factors active the access in amoebic coffee assembly and burning include: advance in values-based purchasing (including the admiration to abutment amoebic assembly practices) and claimed bloom or aliment assurance concerns.

The abiding Zagat-favorite Union Square Cafe is one of the abounding restaurants and added aliment establishments above the United States alms amoebic coffees to their acute clientele.

Background:
Organic coffee is developed application methods and abstracts that accept a low appulse on the environment. Organic assembly systems furnish and advance clay fertility, abstain the use of baneful and assiduous pesticides and fertilizers, and body biologically assorted agriculture. Third-party acceptance organizations verify that amoebic farmers use alone methods and abstracts accustomed in amoebic production.

The Organic Coffee Collaboration - a activity of the Organic Trade Association, the business affiliation for the North American amoebic industry, includes:

Dallis Coffee (New York, NY) - A arch provider of amoebic and Fair Trade Certified™ coffees, affairs to Whole Foods, universities and top cafés and restaurants above the country.

Elan Organic Coffees (San Diego, CA) - Elan Organic Coffees is a coffee developer and importer alms a band of certified amoebic socially amenable coffees it has developed through partnerships with apple co-ops in coffee bearing countries. Elan has pioneered the accumulation of the world's finest certified amoebic coffees, while acknowledging farmers and attention the environment.

Equal Exchange (West Bridgewater, MA) - Worker-owned, Fair Trade Certified™ accommodating and one of the better U.S. amoebic coffee roasters.

Fresh Harvest Products, Inc. (New York, NY) - Its Wings of Nature® casting coffees are small-batch broiled to a temperature that peaks the acidity and analgesic of anniversary bean, and again custom attenuated afterwards baking to accommodate different and aged varieties.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Waterbury, VT) - Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is accustomed as a baton in the specialty coffee industry for its award-winning coffees and socially amenable business practices. The aggregation offers a ample alternative of double-certified amoebic and Fair Trade coffees beneath the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters® and Newman's Own® Organics brands.

Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - A wholesome action for decaffeinating coffee - authentic water, 100% chemical-free - ensures the best of the bean remains, while alone caffeine is removed. Swiss Water decaffeinates amoebic coffees for exceptional companies including Elan Organic Coffees and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Look for the SWISS WATER® logo on backpack or in abundance to agreement abundant tasting, 99.9% caffeine-free coffee.

Note: Daniele Giovannucci, a above aliment aggregation controlling and chief adviser to the World Bank Group, is the world's a lot of broadly appear columnist on coffee and sustainability issues. His books cover "State of Sustainable Coffee" and he teaches post-graduate courses focused on sustainability.

Jazzman's Café Unveils First-Ever Bird Friendly Coffee from Africa

Rich and aged coffee, bifold certified for sustainability, helps bottle backwoods abode and brings the concepts of abode canning to Ethiopian coffee industry

Gaithersburg, MD (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 17, 2008 -- Jazzman's® Café, the award-winning coffeehouse and bakery café from Sodexo's Retail Brand Group, apparent today a Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC), Bird Friendly® coffee blend; the first-ever coffee from Africa to accept such a distinction. Double certified for sustainability and sourced from the Anfilo Specialty Coffee Enterprises in Ethiopia, the affluent and aged buzz debuts nationally this ages at the added than 200 Jazzman's Cafés.

This latest chapter from the Jazzman's Noteworthy Coffees™ Series, a characteristic band of coffees featuring beans from agriculture cooperatives and communities about the world, was sourced from a accommodating accustomed by African agriculturalist Samson Guma. The accommodating acquired its Bird Friendly® acceptance in 2008 and consists of 118 baby calibration farmers.

Jazzman's Café, the Retail Brand Group and Sodexo are committed to acceptable development in agronomical communities about the apple -- in fact, all of our coffees appear from acceptable sources Our acquirement of this coffee makes it accessible for the Anfilo farmers to abide their efforts to bottle backwoods abode and aswell accompany the concepts of abode canning and Bird Friendly® coffee to the Ethiopian coffee industry. It has taken abounding years to get to this point, I am assertive that the band-aid is in bearing a abundant tasting coffee in a acceptable way, and affairs anon to buyers with a amusing and bread-and-butter interest, will accordingly accompany a greater acknowledgment to the farmers and an acknowledgment to consumers. We are actual admiring to accept affianced in this accord with Jazzman's Café. Coffee consumers can now await on a science-based set of belief defining adumbration coffee that absolutely brings 'coffee-as-habitat' into focus, says Robert Rice, geographer/policy researcher at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. "Jazzman's Café, the Retail Brand Group and Sodexo are committed to acceptable development in agronomical communities about the apple -- in fact, all of our coffees appear from acceptable sources," said Erica Milios, administrator of casting development for Sodexo's Retail Brand Group. "Our acquirement of this coffee makes it accessible for the Anfilo farmers to abide their efforts to bottle backwoods abode and aswell accompany the concepts of abode canning and Bird Friendly® coffee to the Ethiopian coffee industry."

Speaking of the farmers efforts to accretion certification, Samson Guma explains, "It has taken abounding years to get to this point, I am assertive that the band-aid is in bearing a abundant tasting coffee in a acceptable way, and affairs anon to buyers with a amusing and bread-and-butter interest, will accordingly accompany a greater acknowledgment to the farmers and an acknowledgment to consumers. We are actual admiring to accept affianced in this accord with Jazzman's Café."

Bird Friendly® acceptance was created in the backward 1990s by the agents of the SMBC at the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. It is awarded to coffee farms that advance adumbration awning to accommodate a abundant abode for afoot and citizen birds. Farmers abandon accepted coffee growing methods of allowance the acreage of copse in adjustment to aerate production.

"Coffee consumers can now await on a science-based set of belief defining adumbration coffee that absolutely brings 'coffee-as-habitat' into focus, says Robert Rice, geographer/policy researcher at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. "We're aflame to accept Sodexo and the Retail Brand Group complex in bond attention to the marketplace."

Retail Brand Group
The Retail Brand Group, Sodexo's retail restaurant development team, offers a absolute portfolio of branded restaurant concepts in all of the a lot of accepted restaurant categories. With 525 locations in North America, anniversary of the fast-casual brands, including the award-winning Jazzman's Café and Pandini's, is a fully-supported operation alms memorable, guest-pleasing dining adventures with aggressive financials. Learn added about the Retail Brand Group at www.retailbrandgroup.com.

Sodexo, Inc.
Sodexo, Inc. (www.sodexo.com) is a arch chip aliment and accessories administration casework aggregation in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Its accumulated citizenship priorities cover angry ache and malnutrition, convalescent the above of activity of our barter and employees, announcement bloom and wellness, administering ethical business, and announcement sustainability. Sodexo's aliment and ecology belvedere in North America focuses on sourcing and accouterment locally developed foods, convalescent nutrition, announcement bounded economies, activity attention and carbon reduction, abbreviation the use of baneful chemicals, chip decay administration and aspersing packaging. The Sodexo Foundation (www.helpstophunger.org) is an absolute accommodating alignment that, back its founding in 1999, has fabricated added than $9.2 actor in grants to action ache in America.

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