Saturday, May 12, is World Fair Trade Day! Join thousands of Fair Trade supporters in showing your support for Fair Trade by hosting or attending one of the many tastings, craft sales, film screenings and other fun Fair Trade events happening in communities around the globe. How about honoring Mom this Mother's Day by giving her Fair Trade chocolates that make a big difference for cocoa farmers and their families? And it's not too late to entert the Children's Fair Trade Art Contest and vote online for the winners. Learn more about World Fair Trade Day activities here.

Jazzman's Cafe has unveiled a Fair Trade Certified organic blend from Oromia, Ethiopia as part of its Noteworthy Coffees limited edition series. Through Fair Trade sales, the Oromia Coffee Farmers' Cooperative Union has been able to build schools, health centers and clean water stations in rural Ethiopia. Jazzman's Fair Trade Ethiopia-Oromia blend will be available at all 190-plus locations nationwide through summer.

Food For Thought Inc., creator of award-winning gourmet organic and wild-harvested specialty foods, has launched the first line of fruit preserves in the U.S. to be made with Fair Trade Certified sugar! Flavors include Organic Blackberry Shiraz, Organic Strawberry Basil and Organic Cherry Cabernet. Yum!

This Fair Trade Certified dark chocolate sauce won the "Best New Product 2007" Award in the Specialty Foods category at the New England Products Trade Show. Good for the farmers, good for the earth, and great for your tastebuds!

Fair Trade is more than just coffee! Fair Trade Certified Hot Cocoa from American Instants is available for purchase here. They offer it in foodservice size bags, so be sure to tell your school or office dining officials you want Fair Trade cocoa - now it's easier than ever to get.

At select T.J. Maxx and Marshalls stores you can now find organic, kosher, Fair Trade Certified gourmet coffee along with discount designer fashions. Roasted by Washington-based Nectar of Life Coffee Company and offered at only $5.99 per bag, these Fair Trade blends are sure to please your pocketbook and palate while impacting farmers from Peru to Papua New Guinea. Read more here.

Fair Trade made the cover of the Sunday Style Section of the New York Times! Gracing the refrigerators of Fair Traders everywhere, this article is sure to make you smile.

Zapizapu Crosses the Sea (A Story About Being Fair) is a new, illustrated children's book, available here for $8.50. What a great way to help celebrate this year's World Fair Trade Day theme, "Kids need Fair Trade"!

Penned by long-time Fair Trade author and activist Jacqueline DeCarlo, this book is packed with inspiring ways to make a difference. Fair Trade: A Beginner's Guide will encourage readers of all backgrounds to help end poverty and environmental destruction through Fair Trade. Order it here.

Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products? What difference does a cup of Fair Trade coffee make? Get inspired by Paul Rice, TransFair USA CEO, who answers these questions and more on Worldchanging.

Encouraged by a campaign led by University of Houston Students for Fair Trade, the student government passed a bill establishing one coffee kiosk on campus as a Fair Trade-only kiosk. Senators and Students for Fair Trade members gave several reasons why the bill was a positive step for the University, including increased coffee revenues, greater consumer choice for students, and increased competition among school coffee vendors. Mission accomplished! To read about other campus campaigns, go here.

This sugar cooperative was initiated in 1996 to help tackle poverty among poor, largely illiterate farmers in an inhospitable region in southern Malawi, Africa. The farmers of Kasinthula Cane Growers live in a region that receives the lowest rainfall in the country. Long droughts occasionally result in famine - and when the rains do come, twice a year, the region is subject to floods. With the Fair Trade premium, Kasinthula Cane Growers have drilled wells to provide safe drinking water, equipped the local clinic with anti-parasite drugs, and replanted crops. Soon, they hope to build two local schools.

Have you ever lay awake at night wondering how products that contain more than one ingredient - like chocolate ice cream - are Fair Trade Certified? Well, we at TransFair USA have. And we've developed a new policy for labeling what we call "composite products" that contain Fair Trade Certified ingredients. Read more about it here.

Many thanks to Salesforce.com for supporting TransFair's participation in the Global Philanthropy Forum - a unique space for change agents and funders to discuss trends in international philanthropy. Additionally, we are incredibly grateful for the generous support of the Salesforce Foundation for having selected TransFair as a recipient of their non-profit CRM product donation program.

We've upgraded the Where to Buy section of our website! You can now find retailers offering Fair Trade products near you AND which products they carry. If your store carries Fair Trade and is not on our list, let us know.

As a non-profit, TransFair depends on the financial support of friends like you to expand our work empowering consumers and producers to build a more equitable and sustainable model of international trade in which all benefit. Click here to make a donation online, or contact our Development Department at (510) 663-5260 or via email at development@transfairusa.org for more information or to discuss your donation options. Thank you!

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