Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. Honored by McDonald's 2010 Global Best of Sustainable Supply

April 26, 2010
Under the leadership of Rick Peyser, Director of Social Advocacy and Coffee Community Outreach, GMCR initiated support of projects with the goal of eliminating "los meses flacos" by helping families diversify their production and income. A coalition of nonprofit organizations and Fair Trade coffee cooperatives including Save the Children, Heifer International, Catholic Relief Services, Cafe Femenino Foundation, Community Agroecology Network (CAN), Pueblo a Pueblo, CECOCAFEN, and CESMACH have created a web of projects across multiple regions. Since 2007, GMCR has funded 14 projects in 10 countries, which are starting to help more than 18,000 families (over 96,000 people) develop the capacity to overcome months of food insecurity in a sustainable manner.

Local roastery gives coffee and hope
January 2009
Part-time barista, Jessie Meuller, wasn't looking forward to her research assignment. She had only been working at the Phoenix Coffee house in Cleveland Heights, Ohio for two months when she was told to investigate one of the brands of coffee the locally owned chain sold and present her findings at a meeting later that week. The brand she was assigned: Café Femenino. The five-minute presentation ended up affecting her career and changing her worldview.

Bits 'n' Pieces : Trip to Peru will benefit coffee firm's employees
November 29, 2008
Gay Smith has made many trips to Peru since starting Cafe Femenino with her husband, Garth, four years ago. This time, however, will be different.

Female Coffee Growers Find New Freedoms in Peru
February 5, 2006
In Peru, female coffee growers have partnered with a U.S. import company to market their own brand of organic, fair-trade coffee. In addition to gaining more economic control, the women are finding their work is changing their culture as well.

Humility, intellect and taking charge
November 8, 2005

Helping each other, 5,000 miles apart
November 7, 2005

From Vancouver to Peru, women lead a Coffee Revolution
November 6, 2005

Cafe Femenino: Empowering Women & Strengthening the Coffee Industry
March 2005
Gaylene Smith isn't afraid to take a leap of faith. In fact, that kind of daring is precisely what inspired the creation of Café Femenino, an ambitious project created last year to connect and empower female coffee growers in origin countries that have traditionally offered few rights to women.