Remember how we made Beantown the largest Fair Trade Town on the East Coast? We had so much fun connecting local activists from churches, businesses and the broader community to the issue of Fair Trade that we thought we would run a similar campaign to make Cambridge a Fair Trade Town.  We’ve just begun but we need your help!

Over the last couple of months, we’ve been gathering new leaders in Cambridge and holding several planning meetings to map out our work to make Cambridge the next Fair Trade Town.
What is a Fair Trade Town exactly? (We’re glad you asked!) Essentially, it’s a campaign centered around a town or city to connect consumers and government to the growers and producers who make our products. Fair Trade Towns campaigns measure their success through five specific benchmarks. (Click HERE to learn more about the specific criteria that made Boston a Fair Trade Town.)
One of the criteria of a Fair Trade Town is that that institutions within a community (churches, synagogues, mosques, hospitals, schools, non-profits and businesses) will use fair trade products in their regular activity. Typically, this means that all coffee & tea served in at a church’s coffee hour or staffs lounge of a business or non-profit will be Fair Trade. (For every 5,000 people in a community we seek to have at least 1 institution using Fair Trade goods).
Serving Fair Trade tea and coffee is a concrete way that an institution can demonstrate how their values align with the protecting workers rights on a global way. It also means that they are serving premium products to their members and/or employees.
The 2010 census data list’s Cambridge’s population at about 105,000 residents. Remember, for every 5,000 people in a community we seek to have at least 1 institution using Fair Trade goods. So we need just 21 institutions serving Fair Trade products. We’ve already documented a few but we need more.
If you know of an institution located in Cambridge that is serving Fair Trade coffee and/or tea to their members and/or employees please let us know by sending us the information requested on this FORM.  We’ll use this information to calculate the institutions needed to make Cambridge a Fair Trade Town.

Questions? Contact events@bostonfaithjustice.org