Raise Money Right
Fundraising is about more than dollars. It’s about bringing your community together to support worthy projects that improve our lives.
Your fundraiser can have twice the impact when you Raise Money Right. A CRS Raise Money Right Fair Trade chocolate fundraiser helps your community raise funds while helping cocoa farmers around the world have a better life.
How To Get Started
1. Learn more about Raise Money Right and our chocolate partners.
- order the CRS Fair Trade Chocolate Fundraising Kit from our order page or read the Raise Money Right Introductory Flier
2. Choose which CRS chocolate partner you’d like to place your order through.
For more information on how to hold a Divine Chocolate fundraiser with SERRV:
- call 1 (888) 294-9665 for more information or to order a Divine Chocolate Fundraising kit
- download the Fundraising Kit materials for a Divine Chocolate fundraiser
For more information on how to hold an Equal Exchange Chocolate fundraiser:
- call (774) 776-7366 for more information
- visit the Equal Exchange Raise Money Right website.
3. Place your order through SERRV or Equal Exchange. Visit the CRS Fair Trade Resources page to download or order additional resources to promote your fundraiser.
Raise Money Right Fair Trade chocolate fundraising means:
Ensuring cocoa farmers are paid a fair price for their cocoa
Fundraising with Fair Trade chocolate means the farmers are guaranteed a fair price for the cocoa that goes into your chocolate bars. No exploitative child labor is allowed and the cocoa farmers can afford to send their children to school. A Fair Trade premium is paid back to the cocoa cooperative to fund social projects, like education and health programs, in their own communities.
Learning about Fair Trade and how it reflects Catholic social teaching
Our Bishops remind us in Economic Justice for All that, “Consumers are moral agents in economic life, by our choices…we enhance or diminish economic opportunity, community life, and social justice.” A Fair Trade chocolate fundraiser creates opportunities to respond to this call. CRS Fair Trade offers educational resources for your group to learn more about the link between Fair Trade and Catholic social teaching.
Raising funds while supporting the mission of Fair Trade companies
The CRS Fair Trade program partners with fully committed Fair Trade organizations to bring you Raise Money Right. Our partners, Equal Exchange and SERRV, are working hard to create a just economic trading system and to provide your community practical kits to organize your fundraiser. Also, with each Raise Money Right fundraiser, Equal Exchange and SERRV make a donation to the CRS Fair Trade Fund. Through the CRS Fair Trade Fund we recycle these funds into grants that expand the Fair Trade movement in the United States and overseas.
Enjoying delicious Fair Trade chocolate!
Fair Trade chocolate not only does good, it tastes good. What’s not to enjoy about high-quality Fair Trade chocolate that makes life sweeter for cocoa farmers around the world?!
