Partners
Fair Trade Vancouver is committed to establishing partnerships and collaborative relationships with like- minded groups and organizations committed to justice, sustainability, and human rights locally, nationally and internationally. Our goal is not only to build and improve on our relationships with like-minded groups, but also to encourage organizations to adopt and endorse Fair Trade Practices.
We welcome partnerships with
- Non-profit groups that focus on sustainability and international development
- Churches and other faith groups
- Schools and student organizations
- Unions
- Business improvement associations
We hope to use our partnerships to publicly support Fair Trade, practice Fair Trade purchasing, publicly reward partners for Fair Trade practices, encourage conversion to Fair Trade products and create a national and global network for sharing resources.
If you are interested in joining the groups below as a Fair Trade Vancouver Partner please e-mail admin@fairtradevancouver.ca to learn more about what Partnership entails.
African Canada Accountability Coalition
ACAC
focuses on research based advocacy pertaining to Canada's relationship with the African continent. Accountability and Fair Trade practices allow for mutually beneficial relationships that ensure political and social stability and real partnerships www.africacanada.org
Amnesty International
Every person, everywhere in the world, has a basic right to an adequate standard of living and the right to food, housing, health and education. Our new campaign - Demand Dignity - will aim to hold national and international leaders accountable for the human rights violations that drive and deepen poverty; and it will defend every person's right to live with dignity. Its first actions will concentrate on ending forced evictions and preventable maternal deaths of women, as well as calling for the development of clear rules to hold extractive industries to account for human rights abuse. In Canada, a major focus of our campaign will be to address the connections between poverty and the failure to protect the land rights of Indigenous Peoples. www.amnesty.ca
BCCIC
BCCIC supports Fair Trade because it is one of the ways we can begin to address systemic inequality in the global trade system and for the global North and South to cooperate towards positive social, economic and environmental change. BCCIC's equivalent in Manitoba, MCIC, is a great proponent of fair trade in the province. www.bccic.ca
Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
Canadian Business for Social Responsibility helps guide companies to do business in a more environmentally and socially responsible way, and sustainable procurement is an important part of a strong CSR commitment. Fair Trade and Fair Trade Vancouver offer businesses and consumers clear options to make a positive impact.
www.cbsr.ca
Canadian Crossroads International
Canadian Crossroads International supports fair trade in several of our overseas programs, including our Bolivia program which focuses on sustainable livelihoods. We have established connections with Fair Trade Vancouver through volunteers at FONCRESOL in Bolivia - a Fair Loan program to assist producers with the heavy costs of exporting, and are currently hosting a Bolivian Fair Trade coffee co-operative producer. CCI works with local partners on 28 projects in 8 countries to reduce poverty and increase women’s rights.
www.cciorg.ca
CoDevelopment Canada
CoDevelopment Canada is proud to support Fair Trade – indeed, it’s a natural extension of our work. CoDev builds partnerships between organizations in Canada and Latin America to foster learning, social change and community empowerment. Café Ético, the fair trade coffee company CoDev owns, was founded on the principles of respect and solidarity with farmers. We believe that fair trade is a tangible way for Canadians to learn about the struggles people face to earn a dignified standard of living, and to support people working for a better world.
www.codev.org
Education Generation
We are a community dedicated to providing access to education for students around the globe. We bridge the gap between supporters and students in need using technology. We eliminate the high overhead of child sponsorship, partnering with existing not for profit organizations that understand the communities they work in, and have a track record of success. This allows you to directly help motivated students, with 100% of your money (after paypal processing fees) supporting their studies. We bring communities of people together with contributions as low as $20, to collectively support individual students. These are real youth with real dreams and unlimited potential. Learn more about us at www.educationgeneration.org
Engineers Without Borders Canada
Engineers Without Borders believes that change happens when ordinary people to stand up to the
injustices they see in the world, and fight for the dignity of human beings who they may have never met before, because they are human beings. Fair Trade realizes our belief because it provides everyday Canadians with a means to genuinely address root causes of poverty www.ewb.ca
Ethical Deal
ethicalDeal is on a mission to make green mainstream by making it easy and fun for people to discover the best green stuff to do, see, and buy in their city. When possible, ethicalDeal features Fair Trade items such coffee, beauty products, soccer balls and more from local, green companies! Sign up today to start discovering your green city at 50% - 90% off!
www.ethicaldeal.com
Free the Children
Free The Children is the world’s largest network of children helping children, with more than one million youth impacted by its innovative education programs in 45 countries around the world. Our mission to free children from poverty, exploitation and the feeling that they are powerless to affect positive change in the world. Our mission is complimentary to the incredible work of Fair Trade Vancouver. By increasing awareness, we all have the power to make socially conscious decisions that benefit our local and global communities.
www.freethechildren.com
Global Agents
Global Agents supports the initiatives of fair trade certification promoting fair wages, higher standards for production and market oriented solutions to poverty. www.globalafc.org
Haiku Media
Haiku media is seeking to serve as a strategic communication media for the ever growing communities of Greater Vancouver. Respect, equality, cooperation, hard work and environment preservation are key drivers for its success. Haiku media supports Fair Trade Vancouver by using its CBN technology to inform Vancouver residents about our activities within the city.
http://haikumg.com/
Kairos
KAIROS, Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, unites eleven churches and religious organizations in faithful action for ecological justice and human rights. Over the past year KAIROS Vancouver has been involved in coordinating and bringing together various religious, community and advocacy groups on the issue of migrant workers justice. Committed to fair trade, members are also concerned about the working conditions, treatment, and health and safety of temporary foreign workers here in our midst as restaurant workers, domestic workers, construction workers, farm workers, etc. Rooted in theological reflection, KAIROS pursues ecological justice and human rights through Research, Education, Partnership, and Advocacy. www.kairoscanada.org/en
Kidsport
We believe that no kid should be left on the sidelines and all should be given the opportunity to experience the positive benefits of organized sports. Fair Trade is something we support because it creates better communities for children all over the world www.kidsportcanada.ca
Latincouver
In addition to bringing Latin and Latin enthusiast together in the Vancouver area, Latincouver is a group of dedicated people with a burning desire to make positive change in and around Vancouver. Accordingly, we are happy to align ourselves with Fair Trade Vancouver as they advocate and educate about positive change through ethical sourcing in Canada and fair production practices in Latin America and beyond. www.latincouver.ca
Oxfam Canada
In our fight to promote women's rights and gender equality and in order to curb the harmful effects of climate change on the world's most vulnerable, we support Fair Trade Vancouver locally and fair trade globally in order to raise awareness and contribute to a just, equitable and more sustainable world. As we implement our campaigns to mobilize Canadian Citizen to change policies, Oxfam Canada also put forward concrete alternatives for people. Fair trade is one of the most effective ways to support small- scale farmers in the global south by putting the producer and the consumer in a more direct contact. www.oxfam.ca
Projecting Change
PCFF is a forum for film and dialogue about social and environmental issues. Our marquee four-day event features inspiring, eye-opening, and often award-winning films from around the globe, each followed by a dynamic speaker and panel discussion. Having previously featured Fair Trade documentaries, we support the work that Fair Trade Vancouver is doing to encourage dialogues about social and environmental justice in Canada. www.projectingchange.ca
Run To End Poverty
Run To End Poverty is a team of compassionate runners taking strides to end extreme poverty in Africa. With every kilometer, we help our African Partners build capacity – connecting their skills and ambition to real opportunity. www.runtoendpoverty.ca
Sawa World
Sawa supports Fair Trade because we seek to lead 1 billion people out of extreme poverty using bold approaches. We believe that people living in extreme poverty have the solutions already. www.sawaworld.org