Fair Trade

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The Fair Trader Receive News and Information about our Fair Trade Program.

Playing fair is its own reward. The CRS Fair Trade Program allows you to buy great coffee, tasty chocolate and beautiful handcrafts. Your purchase through our fair trade marketplace promotes fair wages and human dignity.

Join the CRS Fair Trade Network today!

When you sign up, you will receive periodic updates about the CRS Fair Trade Program and opportunities to participate in other CRS programs that serve our brothers and sisters in need overseas.

Support Fair Trade

Now you can contribute directly to the CRS Fair Trade Fund through our secure on-line donation platform. One hundred percent of your tax-deductible contributions are used to benefit Fair Trade farmers and artisans.

Get Involved!

Here are 10 ways you can put your values into action to make the economy work for disadvantaged artisans and farmers around the world:

  1. Learn about Fair Trade. We have developed resources to help you understand and promote Fair Trade. With the CRS Fair Trade Resource Center, you can order and download educational and promotional materials: videos, virtual tours, presentations, brochures, flyers, posters and more!

  2. Join the CRS Fair Trade Network. Click here to become part of our online community of concern and action!

  3. Spread the word. Click here to tell your friends about Fair Trade and all the things that the CRS Fair Trade Program is doing for artisans and farmers around the world.

  4. Buy Fair Trade stuff! Fair Trade is an exciting approach to international trade that incorporates disadvantaged artisans and farmers into the global economy in a way that is beneficial and not exploitative. But it only works if conscious consumers like you purchase Fair Trade items! Click here to buy Fair Trade crafts, coffee and chocolate.

  5. Give Fair Trade gifts. People on your shopping list will love their gifts and admire the cause you serve with your purchase. Click here to buy Fair Trade gifts.

  6. Host a Fair Trade fair. Serve coffee and chocolate, play music, give Fair Trade artisans and farmers hope for a brighter future…and have fun! Click here for steps to organize a sale.

  7. Convert your parish, school or office to Fair Trade coffee. Help the institutions that matter to you align their consumption with their values. Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is!

  8. Make your community sweeter. Encourage store managers in your community to carry Divine Fair Trade chocolate. Click here for talking points that will help you tell a Divine story to store managers in your area.

  9. Donate to the CRS Fair Trade Fund. Your contributions to the CRS Fair Trade Fund help to support our Fair Trade work around the world. See how you can make a contribution and learn more about the CRS Fair Trade Fund.

  10. Celebrate! When you buy, sell and promote Fair Trade through the CRS Fair Trade Program, you build right relationships with disadvantaged artisans and farmers overseas, and you advance a more just vision of the global economy. Now that's something worth celebrating! And don’t be bashful—tell your story through local Catholic and secular media. Please share your success stories with fairtrade@crs.org.

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